Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Disciplines (hierarchy name)
4. disciplines (concept)
5. cross- and interdisciplinary fields

Narrower term/s

• preventive conservation
• architectural conservation
• archaeological conservation
• ethnographic conservation
• sustainable conservation

Anotations

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)."