What is cultural heritage, who needs it and who owns it?

Zbigniew Kobyliński

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Vol no: 7

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The article deals with the definition of cultural heritage, its value to society, and the problem of its ownership and the conflicts that arise around the ownership of cultural heritage. We can call human creations, as well as creations of nature that have spiritual values, cultural goods. Cultural heritage, on the other hand, is that part of past cultural property that has been recognized as valuable by subsequent, succeeding generations and has thus survived to the present day.