Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice

Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice
Source: American Institute for Conservation (AIC) Philosophy and Ethics of Collections Care

The primary goal of conservation professionals, individuals with extensive training and special expertise, is the preservation of cultural property. Cultural property consists of individual objects, structures, or aggregate collections. It is material which has significance that may be artistic, historical, scientific, religious, or social, and it is an invaluable and irreplaceable legacy that must be preserved for future generations.