ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to the formation of new professions related to building preservation, and to their relationships to new fields of specialized practice in restoration and conservation. Skansen internationally has come to stand for Swedish preservation as the chapter demonstrates; it was only a small part of longstanding and far more extensive campaign to preserve the face of the past. At issue was not only which buildings should be preserved but, also, how far authentic and scholarly historical evidence should determine the aesthetic appearance of a building; whether the buildings was considered living or dead, and how the community should be represented. The development of monument preservation in Sweden was so tightly connected to the centuries old antiquarian institutions that the public bodies of historic preservation mainly has been led by antiquarians, archaeologists and art historians. The same situation is true for the regional organization, as well as for local municipalities.
