Safeguarding the Cultural Heritage: Ideas and Practices

Dedicated to the 60^th anniversary of Bulgaria`s accession to UNESCO. The basic thematic units in the volume include theoretical understandings related to the interpretation and maintenance of cultural heritage; sharing of innovative ideas for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage or of the preservation of tangible cultural heritage; as well as articles dedicated to pertinent problems of the representation of cultural heritage in a museum and archival environment together with the national and regional experience in the implementation of cultural policies. During the conference the problems of tangible and intangible heritage were discussed by a wide circle of specialists with different professional background working in the field of ethnology, folklore studies, cultural studies, archaeology, art history, architecture, museology, restoration and conservation, philology, library studies, etc.