Cultural Heritage (Essay Sample)

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Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage is the inheritance of physical artifacts and insubstantial aspects of some people, which has been conserved to benefit the coming generation. This provides acquaintance and expertise that is transmitted from one generation to the other. They are mostly stored in the museum but in special circumstances, they can be left to the community that owns them.
To profit the majority, I support the storage of artifacts at the museum because most possess a universal character, which must be revealed to the people. Some have an educative nature. They help individuals to understand how the evolutionary process has occurred over time, and it assists in coming up with concepts thereby contributing to the existing knowledge. In such cases, the ownership rights have to change in order to serve a larger group. Due to the changes taking place from one generation to the other, the current generation may reject the cultural heritage that existed before, and this shows the importance of conserving the cultural heritage in the museums. In addition, some of the artifacts should be stored in the museum since they undergo chemical transformation that the society might not be able to note and prevent (Nafziger, 89).
However, it may be important to return the seized artifacts to the society where they were found because of valid reasons. It cannot be good to take artifacts regarded as sacred by the community that owns them. Some may also be keeping the secrets of the community, and it is not advisable to tamper with them since they are of great value to them. In some cases, tourists who get to touch them may damage certain artifacts easily (Forrest, 179).
Therefore, artifacts should be stored in the museum if they possess an international charact...