ABSTRACT
This handbook is about securing and protecting the history of our world and our environment, which continues to grow around us. Individuals, institutions, and nations have collected this cultural and natural heritage for thousands of years. Some of us know this heritage as nature preserves, libraries, archives, galleries, museums, and private collections. Others recognize the heritage as historical monuments, zoological and botanical gardens, historic houses, and public buildings. They are our historical identity. In this handbook protection managers review the common objectives of cultural collecting, exhibiting, and preserving of cultural property. They play a critical role in the active protection of people, activities, and properties. Cultural protection management is a specialty of cultural institution work. They dedicate themselves to the physical protection of our historical identity.
