B) Read the passage and do the activities. B5. What should we do to save out historical sites?
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Monuments and Museums
Monuments are the buildings or structures famous for their architectural and cultural heritage. They are durable and famous symbols of past. We get lot of historical and political information from monuments. They can be of various types, For example – church, temples, mosques, memorials, buildings, landmarks, pillars, edicts, fountains, graves stones, monoliths, mounds, palaces, statues, war memorials, towers, tombs, etc...
Monuments remind us of our heritage. They are like a treasure for a nation and symbol of pride of their civilization. They help us to appreciate our past and the level of development, knowledge and thoughts. In a way, they provide life to our past. They serve as important sources /evidences of history and they enhance tourism.
It is important to conserve, preserve & protect buildings from:
Pollution
Poor civic sense of local citizens, visitors scratching, spitting on monuments etc.
Water seepage from farming, irrigation etc.
Civil wars, terrorist attacks & vandalism etc.
Natural weathering
How to preserve monuments:
Awareness campaign to educate community
Adopt monuments
Strict Government action & plan to save monuments, setting up of Archaeological departments
Collecting, generation of funds & donation for their renovation
Chemical treatments of monuments & restoration
Taxes/donations to preserve monuments, monument fees and other related funds from citizens and tourists.
Volunteering for their conservation
Meetings, surveys, reports, heritage clubs should be set up by schools, educational institutes to make students and youth aware to save monuments.
Devising proper Legal framework to preserve monuments at national and global level. Strict implementation of laws to save monuments.
Save from pollution, Keeping factories and other polluters away.
Control mobs ,acts of vandalism, terrorists attacking monuments
Corporate, Multinational corporations should take responsibility to conserve monuments.
International bodies like UNESCO have taken important initiatives to preserve them. Our team is quite inspired by UNESCO’s efforts. “UNESCO has a world heritage mission which encourages international cooperation in the conservation of our world's cultural and natural heritage, countries are required to nominate their heritage sites.It encourages participation of the local population in the preservation of their cultural and natural heritage.“
We all three schools collaborated internationally, conducted visit to monuments and researched the causes of damage and decided to enlighten our website visitors to avoid any harm to the sources of history.
We, the members of Team India ( students of DAV Public School, Pushpanjali ) completed our field work, by visiting monuments , museums & galleries located in Delhi in order to gather information for our website. We visited following monuments - Humayun’s tomb, Red Fort, Qutub Complex & India Gate.
We also visited National Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art and Gandhi Smriti- the site of Martyrdom of Mahatma Gandhi.
A lot of lessons were learnt during the visit and we came to know about monument history, famous documents ,photos, paintings all of which serve as important sources of history .The visits were an eye opener and gave an answer to us that why should we preserve and display sources of historical importance. They are all our cultural legacy and connect us to our past ,we are able to appreciate their contribution to our present and inspiration for future ahead .The whole visit also made the understanding of our country, state and local history more easier and interesting.
We would like to share that the monuments visited by us were UNESCO world heritage sites and we are generating an awareness amongst our school friends to preserve and save our monuments through our Heritage Club.
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