Zprávy památkové péče 2013, 73(3):179-186

Do we, or do we not want technical and industrial monuments?

Miloš Matěj

Technical and industrial monuments are currently endangered and are rapidly disappearing, and this trend has been escalating dangerously in recent years. Whether the reasons for this are lucrative land parcels in city centres, expired structural conditions, or the fact that it is easier to demolish something than to preserve it, is a matter of speculation. A solution to this problem, as well as a priority in our opinion, is to identify the important properties as soon as possible and to propose the protection of the most important sites and effectively promote them so that subsequent decisions are under public control.

Keywords: technical monuments, industrial heritage, conservation, information systems, methodological centre

Published: September 1, 2013  Show citation