Haiti - Heritage : Rescue of the cultural goods of the Center of art

Stephanie Hornbeck serves as Chief Conservator for the Cultural Recovery Center.

Measures for the preservation or salvage of cultural property should be preventive and corrective.

Responsibility for the preservation or salvage of cultural property endangered by public or private works should be entrusted to appropriate official bodies.

Measures for the preservation or salvage of cultural property should be carried out well in advanceof public or private works.

(a) The national or local authorities responsible for the safeguarding of cultural property should have adequate budgets to undertake the preservation or salvage of cultural property endangered by public or private works; or

So we sought expert guidance from the cultural properties rescue committee that was established by the national government’s Agency for Cultural Affairs in response to the disaster.

Preventive and corrective measures should be aimed at protecting or saving cultural property from public or private works likely to damage and destroy it, such as:

Works and archives were then entrusted to the Haiti Cultural Recovery Project (Ministry of Culture – Haiti; Smithsonian Institution – Washington/USA).

If necessary, work should be delayed to ensure that adequate measures are taken for the preservation or salvage of the cultural property concerned.