D9 - Use innovative techniques to present cultural heritage to the public, while preserving its integrity

Innovative techniques and approaches must be used to the full in showcasing operations but must be used judiciously in order to meet the dual challenge of preserving the integrity of the cultural heritage and making it accessible to as wide a public as possible.

D9 Challenges
Development challenges
- Ensuring that Europeans enjoy a high quality of life, in harmony with their cultural and natural environment
- Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
- Ensuring that heritage is taken into account in sustainable spatial development strategies and programmes

D9 Target audience
- local
- regional

Recommended courses of action for D9
- Define optimal access or visiting conditions and find solutions to achieve them
- Present a space or object that has disappeared, is inaccessible, vulnerable or disconnected from its context
- Reconstitute or create artefacts
- Organise a visitor tour in a sensitive area
- Involve local stakeholders and residents in the establishment of innovative facilities
Good practices for D9

- Strategy 21 - Territorial and economic development (D)
- D1 - Promote cultural heritage as a resource and facilitate financial investment
- D2 - Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 - Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D4 - Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, planning and infrastructure projects
- D5 - Encourage the reuse of heritage and use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D6 - Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- D7 - Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D8 - Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D9 - Use innovative techniques to present cultural heritage to the public, while preserving its integrity
- D10 - Use the cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- D11 - Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates