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The next European Heritage Days will represent an opportunity to
assess the jobs that take part in the knowledge, conservation, restoration
and assessment of heritage.
These old or contemporary, technical or innovating jobs, whose
implication to the service of heritage is still for some of them
not known or unexpected, have a determining role in the mechanisms
of heritage safeguard. They are in themselves an important element
of our national heritage and contribute to the enrichment of the
memory of our society.
Thus, the European Days of heritage should allow the public to
discover these professions and relate to those that day after day
carry out actions in favor of heritage.
Next to traditional construction and restoration jobs (stonemasons,
master glass workers, carpenters, esculptors…) are more recent
high technology jobs (computer specialists, chemists, cartographers…).
These European Heritage Days cover the heritage in charge of the
Ministry of culture and communication, from archaeology and monuments
to train engines to photography, from the study of know-how to the
search of traces or the identification of new heritage. The wealth
of documentary resources accumulated for one hundred and fifty years
could also be mentioned, which today have extraordinary uses thanks
to digitalization and the Internet.
This subject also provides the opportunity to insist on the jobs
of the partners of the Ministry of culture and communication that
also participate in the defense of heritage, like for example the
police services which allow to fight against the traffic of works
of art, the research laboratories to fight the pollution of materials
like concrete or glass, the companies of restoration of historical
monument that today ensure the excellence of the professional practices
in this field, or territorial groups for the pedagogical and tourist
assessment of heritage.
Finally, these European Heritage Days, by giving value to the agents,
will also allow to present all the branches of training related
to these fields.
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