conservation (discipline)
- Scope note
- The discipline involving treatment, preventive care, and research directed toward the long-term safekeeping of cultural and natural heritage. For actions taken to halt changes or deterioration in objects, sites, or structures, see "preservation (function)"; for changes made to an object or structure so that it will closely approximate its original or other past state, see "restoration (process)."
- Date of creation: 18-Nov-2024
Accepted term: 18-Nov-2024