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[[File:Kulturdenkmal 4 Sprachen.jpg|thumb|Plaque of the [[Bundesdenkmalamt]] on a building in [[Salzburg]] indicating "Cultural property" in four languages; German: ''Kulturdenkmal'', English, French: ''Bien culturel'', and Russian: ''Культурное Достояние''.]] |
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'''Cultural property''' are physical items that are part of the [[cultural heritage]] of a group or society.<ref>Ann Marie Sullivan, Cultural Heritage & New Media: A Future for the Past, 15 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 604 (2016) https://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1392&context=ripl</ref> They include such items as historic buildings, works of art, archaeological sites, libraries and museums. |
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==Definition== |
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Article 1 of the [[Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict]] of 1954 defines cultural property as follows:<ref>[http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13637&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict with Regulations for the Execution of the Convention 1954] at the UNESCO website</ref> |
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:"The term 'cultural property' shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership: |
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:(a) movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above; |
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:(b) buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended to shelter, in the event of armed conflict, the movable cultural property defined in sub-paragraph (a); |
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:(c) centers containing a large amount of cultural property as defined in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), to be known as 'centers containing monuments'." |
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==Emblem== |
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[[File:Denkmal.png|thumb|upright=0.4|The cultural property emblem]] |
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Article 16 of the Convention describes the internationally recognized mark for cultural property as follows: |
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:(1) The distinctive emblem of the Convention shall take the form of a shield, pointed below, persaltire blue and white (a shield consisting of a royal-blue square, one of the angles of which forms the point of the shield, and of a royal-blue triangle above the square, the space on either side being taken up by a white triangle). |
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==See also== |
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* [[Heritage site]] |
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* [[World Heritage Site]] |
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* [[National Heritage Site]] |
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* [[National Monument]] |
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* [[Philippine Registry of Cultural Property]] |
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* [[National Commission for Culture and the Arts]] |
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==References== |
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{{Culture}} |
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