Heritage Ownership and Site Management

This assignment analyzes the roles and responsibilities of various organizations involved in heritage and cultural site management, focusing on two primary types of ownership: public and commercial. It evaluates the impact of each ownership model on site preservation, funding, and sustainability. Students are tasked with exploring the advantages and disadvantages of different ownership structures and their influence on cultural heritage protection.

Task 3
3.1 Evaluating the impact of different kinds of ownership on management of
heritage and cultural sites
There are basically two types of ownership of the
cultural and heritage sites, one is the publicly owned and
the other one is the commercial owned. The private
owned cultural and heritage sites includes national
museums, archeological sites, libraries, archives and so
on, such sites are basically profit oriented. On the other
hand, such sites can often organize fundraising events
for the welfare of the society (Du Cros and McKercher,
2015, p.159). Cultural and heritage sites owned by the
public include archives, national parks orphanage. The
primary aim of such sites is conservation and
preservation. The public sites can also raise a fund
raising events and allowing open access to the heritage
sites.
The impact of such ownership is that, the public owned
sites assures proper management and proper funding for
the preservation of national treasures and heritage. As
mentioned by Ashworth and Larkham (2013, p.258), the
public ownership guarantees the sustainability of the
cultural and heritage sites. Whereas, the government
ownership assures the funding and the sustainability of
the site is well maintained. The mere existence of such
ownership does not guarantee the preservation of the
cultural heritage. Proper coordination and
implementation of different projects can lead to decrease
The heritage and cultural industry are well managed by different styles of ownership that are different in terms
of their individual roles and responsibilities. These responsibilities relates to the management of the heritage
and cultural sites. As the tourists that visit sch place are diversified in nature their search for culture and
heritage also differs for the same place. Thus, it depends on the tourist guides and such companies to take high
care of the raised query from their tourists. However, the major responsibilities of tourism companies mark for
the preservation, conservation and management related activities of cultural and heritage resources. The
following are different ownership with their responsibilities:
English Heritage: They aim to pretext the natural environment into nation. Moreover, maintain ancient
monuments to protect the history are also performed by them.
National Trust: They are responsible to the protection of environmental and cultural treasures of specific
region. This further makes them assured about the protection of historically important item of cultural heritage.
Heritage Lottery Fund: They are responsible to raise fund by National Lottery and utilise to make difference
for people across the UK and communities.
3.2 Analysing the roles and responsibilities of organizations in heritage and cultural
history
WWF: They work for issues related to conservation,
research and restoration of environment and are responsible
to stop degradation of planet’s natural environment.
Historic House Association: They are responsible for the
promotion of specialist and technical advices for its member
house.