Exporting Working Patterns: Polish Conservation Workshops in the Global South during the Cold War
The conservation of cultural heritage in Poland is mainly associated with spectacular (and controversial) post-war reconstruction of destroyed cities, and labeled “Polish school of preservation and conservation”. This widespread catchy term helped Polish specialists working in Polish State Workshops...
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ABE Journal
2015
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | The conservation of cultural heritage in Poland is mainly associated with spectacular (and controversial) post-war reconstruction of destroyed cities, and labeled “Polish school of preservation and conservation”. This widespread catchy term helped Polish specialists working in Polish State Workshops for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (pkz Pracownie konserwacji zabytków) achieve an international success. From the late 1960s to the beginning of the 1990s they completed in over 30 countries hundreds of heritage conservation projects of various scales, including more than 20 on sites that are now on the unesco World Heritage List. The aim of this article is to show how this enterprise, as the only one from socialist countries, managed to establish itself and grow on the post-colonial markets in countries such as Algeria, Cambodia, Egypt, Syria, Tunisia and Vietnam. It highlights also how Polish experts managed to adjust their methodologies, interdisciplinary methods of work, techniques and scientific standards to local circumstances. |
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