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CONSERVATION POLICY [NEEDS, AREAS TO CONSIDER & PREPARING
WORKING MANUAL]
VISMAY H. RAVAL+
The key function of the museum or its kind of institute or repository is to collect; record; conserve; promote understanding and appreciation of; and support the history, culture and heritage of mankind for the benefit of local community, scholars, school and visitors to the area.
As the major function is indicating, conservation is one of the prime functions and is to consider, because the true value of the institute can be done by its collection and without collection one can not imagine the organization.
The term 'conservation' derives from Latin word 'conservare', to keep, to 'conserve. Today in English language there exists further terms like 'preservation', 'restoration', 'rehabilitation', 'redevelopment' etc.
The definition of conservation given by the IIC (The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) is: "All action aimed at the safeguarding of cultural property for the future. Its purpose is to study, record, retain and restore the culturally significant qualities of the object with the least possible intervention.”
With this basic information we can derive that the basic philosophy of the conservation is that “the object should be strengthen rather than repaired, repaired rather than restored and addition and renovation should be avoided to give equal respect to tangible and intangible factors - includes historical, aesthetic, technical, sacred and maker's intentions.
As it reflects from the definition, that conservation is purly scientific and
+ Consurvation Assistant, L.D. Institute of Indology - Ahmedabad
