문화유산

정의

문화유산(文化遺産)이란 장래의 문화적 발전을 위하여 다음 세대 또는 젊은 세대에게 계승ㆍ상속할 만한 가치를 지닌 과학, 기술, 관습, 규범 따위의 민족 사회 또는 인류 사회의 문화적 소산. 정신적ㆍ물질적 각종 문화재나 문화 양식 따위를 모두 포함한다.

UNESCO 세계 문화 및 자연유산 보호협약의 정의

• Article 1

For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "cultural heritage":

monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;

groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;

sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological point of view.

• Article 2

For the purposes of this Convention, the following shall be considered as "natural heritage": natural features consisting of physical and biological formations or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value from the aesthetic or scientific point of view;

geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation;

natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.