Kolegium Ekspertów ds. Zabytków i Dzieł Sztuki oraz Centralnego Laboratorium Zabytków

• Authors: Pruszyński Jan

Title variants

EN

THE BOARD OF EXPERTS IN MONUMENTS AND ARTWORKS AND THE CENTRAL MONUMENT LABORATORY

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

In connection with political and economic changes, a growing interest in works of art and monuments as well as the forseeable liberalization of the principles of their export outside the Polish Republic, it became necessary to bring into being an institution which would determine the historical, artistic, scientific and cultural and in concrete cases, material value mentioned in the legislation dealing with the protection of cultural goods. The most correct solution would be to establish a Bo a r d of Ex p er t s in M o n u m e n t s and A r t w o r k s working alongside the Minister. This body would be composed of the most outstanding and professionally active representatives of museums and conservation, but should not include mor than twenty persons. The first task ought to establish: 1. lists of specializations calling for separate experts; 2. qualification requirements and methods of testing them; 3. conditions for inclusion into the list of experts, the list itself and cases of relegation from it; 4. the rights and obligations of the experts. In order to publish information regarding the value and features of the monuments (antiques) it is necessary to issue and illustrated and well-edited catalogue of monuments and artworks currently on the market. This publication could be published by the Centre for the Documentation of Monuments, whose library should be supplemented with catalogues from abroad. The entire undertaking would, of course, call for a separate D e p a r t m e n t of Pr i ces and M ar k e t С o n d i t о n, and a publishing house more efficient than the existing one. In view of the fact that an expert is not always able to determine the authenticity of the given object and that research equipment is scattered in museum, the heretofore Workshops for the Conservation of Monuments and police laboratories, it seems correct to consider the possibility of founding (for example, within the Institute of Conservation) a C en t r a l L a b o r a t o ry of Mo n u m e n t s . Such a laboratory, outiftted with equipment would enable material, photographic and physico-chemical analyses and other operations which are the foundation for estimating authenticity, conservation advise as well as the establishing of the worth of monuments. It would act upon the basis of commissions from state conservation services, public institutions, experts and private persons. The financing of the work of the expert does not call for special means other than the ones which up to now were assigned for various purchases. The expert opinions would be issued at total (or reduced) prices according to principles analoguous to all other opinions of this sort. Finally, it is suggested that the Board of Experts and the Department of Prices ana Market Conditions would be subjected to the supervision of the Minister of Culture and Art, a justified concept since at present the practical possibility of the management (protective administration) of monuments is still illusory.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1991
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 287-289

Dates

published

1991

Contributors

author

Pruszyński Jan

• prof, dr hab., Instytut Nauk Prawnych PAN

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247