Expo showcases
Humans cause more damage to tangible cultural heritage than any other factor such as nature or environment, an exhibition on preventive conservation in the city has showcased.
The exhibition was recently organized by a group of students from Indian Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts to celebrate the 30th Foundation Day of the institute, asianage.com wrote.
The students of PG Diploma in Preventive Conservation used wall hanging posters to suggest ways to conserve tangible cultural heritage monuments seeking to ensure that they remain accessible to the present and future generations.
One of the flowchart diagrams highlighted the fact that deterioration of cultural heritage is more due to human aggressors than natural aggressors such as flood, earthquake, storm among others.
Besides nature, damages due to fire, color bleeding, vandalism and theft are also major factors behind the deterioration of cultural heritage.
Aditi, one of the participating students, said, “It may be intentional or unintentional, but the acts by humans turn out to be the biggest factors to be blamed for the deterioration of cultural heritage.”
Newspaper clippings related to a massive fire at Delhi’s National Museum of Natural History last year; 16 antique Kashmiri shawls missing from the Delhi’s Crafts Museum; and theft of a dagger gifted to Jawaharlal Nehru by Saudi Arabia also found place in the preventive conservation exhibition, further bolstering the claim.
With three broad classifications of conservation — preventive, remedial and