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  The Netherlands
 

CULTURAL HERITAGE AGENCY

EHHF 2011 CHANGES IN RURAL HERITAGE

Susan Lammers is general director of the Cultural Heritage Agency (Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed), the Netherlands centre of expertise for heritage, an executive and knowledge body of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.  

The Cultural Heritage Agency is responsible for preserving and protecting historic buildings, archaeological sites and works of art, and helping others to do so. It also gives cultural historical values a place within spatial development plans and projects. In the State Heritage Laboratories, scientists undertake research to ensure that objects of art and objects of historical value can be preserved for posterity. Our aim is to give the future a – recognisable – past. Over 350 staff work for the Agency, including specialists in restoration, historical research, chemistry, law, (art) history, archaeology, urban planning, archiving, etc.

Susan Lammers studied at the Faculty of Arts at the Radboud University of Nijmegen. Previously, she worked as director at the University of Applied science Utrecht, as director at the Ministry of Finance and as director at the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY
The first European Heritage Summit was organised in London from April 26 to 28, 2006 by Dr Simon Thurley, former Chief Executive of English Heritage. The mission of the summit was to bring together for the first time those responsible for Europe's cultural heritage, to create an opportunity to exchange experiences in heritage management and to initiate joint action. The first summit brought together 23 European countries, who agreed in the summit's final declaration to continue to meet annually in the form of a European Heritage Heads Forum. Each year, future host countries are chosen by mutual agreement at the annual meeting, so that the tradition can continue.

 

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