Monuments, places, museums and collections

Any heritage resource, even those of an intangible nature, is linked to specific communities and places.

Traditionally in Europe we have been able to come into contact with them through museums and visitable monuments, but these facilities do not live in isolation from their surroundings.

In fact, most heritage assets currently considered are fully integrated within urban and rural landscapes. These circumstances generate a broad field of study within which the ICRPC has approached it with several axes.

The first is that of multidimensionality, since we take into account the basic heritage elements but also the museum facilities that preserve and disseminate them. Our approach is systemic and takes into account several scales of analysis: from the singular object, through the museum and up to the geographical, social and natural environment that hosts them and receives the effects of their presence, without ever forgetting their original places and societies.

In this sense, we can mention projects such as the prehistoric sites of Serinyà, in which we develop everything from basic archaeological research to the design of the discourses and elements of museography that will serve visitors to the sites themselves, and we also collaborate with local and national museums that preserve materials from this heritage site.

The second axis that we take into account in this line of research is that of multidisciplinarity. For this reason, our research staff is trained to study heritage assets generated throughout the entire history of humanity, from prehistory to the present day. The collective expertise of the team allows the institute to analyze technical artifacts, architectural creations, artistic objects, textual records, elements of intangible heritage, complex systems of communication infrastructures, etc.

Our network of contacts allows, if necessary, to set up teams specialized in all types of heritage that society currently contemplates.