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In the 1970s the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage introduced a new term regarding historic preservation – heritage. It has replaced the previously used term “cultural object”. It was a time when postmodern tendencies started being popular. The goal of this article is to find an answer to the question: is heritage postmodern? For this purpose the mechanisms observed and explained by Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid modernity were compared and referred to the rudiments of heritage.