Cultural Heritage

The term cultural heritage encompasses several main categories of heritage:

Cultural heritage

  • Tangible cultural heritage:

Movable cultural heritage (paintings, sculptures, coins, manuscripts)
Immovable cultural heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, and so on)
Underwater cultural heritage (shipwrecks, underwater ruins and cities)

  • Intangible cultural heritage: oral traditions, performing arts, rituals

Natural heritage: natural sites with cultural aspects such as cultural landscapes, physical, biological or geological formations

Heritage in the event of armed conflict

(UNESCO 2009)
 

Sources

UNESCO. 2009. “UNESCO Database of National Cultural Heritage Laws.”
 

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