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Réf.

41861

Type

conference item

Titre

Robben Island : developing an integrated environmental and heritage management system

Langues

English

Auteurs

Pastor Makhurane, Juanita

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

4 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 295-298 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

integrated conservation / pilgrimage / intangible heritage / World Heritage Sites / management plans / historic sites / conservation of historic sites / management / interpretation / World Heritage List

Pays mentionnés

South Africa

Monuments et sites

Robben Island, South Africa

N° Patrimoine mondial

916

Résumé en anglais

In 1996 Robben Island Prison was handed over by the Department of Correctional Services to the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology to be developed as a museum, national monument and World Heritage Site. In January 1997, Robben Island opened its doors to the public as a tourist destination. In 1999, Robben Island was declared South Africa’s first World Heritage Site. Since 1997, the Robben Island Museum has been developing an integrated environmental management plan and system, in line with new South African environmental and heritage legislation, which sets out to manage development on the Island with a conservation approach. This paper describes the process adopted by Robben Island to ensure that it is managed to World Heritage standards, and that specifically looks at the approach that integrates the natural, environmental and cultural resources on the Island. In identifying the rich cultural heritage of the Island and its political significance as a place where the “human spirit triumphed over adversity”, the conservation and interpretative strategies that have been developed have focused on intangible heritage, which is encompassed in memory and oral tradition and therefore contributes to the development of a site of living memory.

Document joint

C2-1_-_Pastor.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852