"Take good care of your monuments and you will not need to restore them," John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Today, the maintenance of cultural heritage is perceived as the responsibility of the manager. For this reason, cultural heritage managers can expect financial support for management (e.g. restoration) but not for day-to-day maintenance work.
More and more often, it is realized that only the financing of management works without preventive protection (both before and after management works) can lead to very sad consequences.
Current funding models do not in themselves incentivize managers to care for cultural heritage sites. The rulers simply know that sooner or later, when a critical situation is reached, they will have every right to ask for financial help to save the heritage that is important to everyone and is crumbling again.
Maybe that's why more and more states are linking funding for management to the manager's skills and efforts to look after the managed cultural heritage object.
Funding is secured only after making sure how well the manager performs/will perform annual maintenance work both before and after management (e.g. cleans downspouts from autumn leaves, repaints or replasters remaining patches of facades), how often he participates in heritage management training and applies the acquired knowledge, managing your heritage site.
In the photo - St. Anna's Church, which is considered the first object of cultural heritage in Vilnius, where the first professional restoration works were carried out in 1902-1909. This photograph contains almost the entire 1902th-1909th century. History of Lithuanian heritage conservation: 1969th century. help a building was built across the yard. Maironio Street, during the demolition of the 1971th century. Ave. built belfry and near the constructed street the newly built neo-Gothic St. Anna's church bell tower, St. The facade of Anna's church and fragments of its restoration (1950-XNUMX, XNUMX-XNUMX), the foreground of the photograph shows how one of the restored sculptures of the pediment of Vilnius Cathedral, which was destroyed in XNUMX for ideological reasons, is being transported (today it would be like Buddha in Afghanistan or Palmyra in Syria ).
In the photo of Algirdas Pilvelis, the sculptures of the pediment of the Vilnius Cathedral travel from Užupis (sculptor S. Kuzmas' workshop) towards the Cathedral, 1997.
Vinformation of the state cultural reserve of Ilnia Castles
