Déontologie
CODE OF ETHICS of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
PREAMBLE
The primary goal of conservation professionals, individuals with extensive training and special expertise, is the preservation of cultural property. Cultural property consists of individual objects, structures, or aggregate collections. It is material which has significance that may be artistic, historical, scientific, religious, or social, an d it is an invaluable and irreplaceable legacy that must be preserved for future generations.
In striving to achieve this goal, conservation professionals assume certain obligations to the cultural property, to its owners and custodians, to the conservation profession, and to society as a whole. This document, the Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), sets forth the principles that guide conservation professionals and others who are involved in the care of cultural property.
GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
The conservation professional should use the following guidelines and supplemental commentaries together with the AIC Code of Ethics in the pursuit of ethical practice. The commentaries are separate documents, created by the AIC membership, that are intended to amplify this document and to accommodate growth and change in the field.
PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
EXAMINATION AND SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
PREVENTIVE CONSERVATION
TREATMENT
DOCUMENTATION
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