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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41842

Type

conference item

Titre

When the castles were white, II

Langues

English

Auteurs

Hyland, A. D. C. / Intsiful, George W. K.

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

4 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 173-176 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

forts / castles / management / presentation / World Heritage List / conservation projects / conservation of historic monuments / historic buildings / re-use / intangible cultural heritage

Pays mentionnés

Ghana

Monuments et sites

Forts and Castles, Volta, Greater Accra, Central and Western Regions, Ghana

N° Patrimoine mondial

Résumé en anglais

Three of the historically most significant forts and castles of Ghana, which were designated as a group of World Heritage properties in 1979 – Cape Coast Castle, St. George’s Castle Elmina, and Fort St. Jago Elmina – were the subject of a major conservation programme executed in the 1990’s under the aegis of the Ghana Government, UNDP and USAID. In architectural terms, the programme can be judged to have achieved its objectives, and the future of these monuments, maintained and managed by their custodians, the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board, appears to be reasonably secure. What had not been anticipated, however, when the initial brief for consultants was drawn up and during the period of project development, was the growing divergence of opinion among stakeholders as to the authenticity of the repair, refurbishment and adaptive re-use of the buildings as community assets and as revenue generators. How are these World Heritage Properties perceived? How should they be presented to the public? As national icons embodying the history of the country’s development, or as memorials to those who suffered the cruelties of the slave trade – or merely as holiday venues? At bottom, there is an irreconcilable conflict about what these buildings mean. The conflicting layers of meaning are examined and analysed, and proposals made for their reconciliation.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

B1-4_-_Hyland.pdf

Licence

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

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852