Disaster strikes Pompeii... Collapse of several walls

[Endre Fodstad]

Monuments and materials conservation is, sadly, not all that high priority anywhere. In fact, it only tends to get centre stage when something goes wrong. It is not quite as "sexy" as putting out papers or adding yet another monument to a heritage list...all the while providing no or little money to actually preserve all that heritage.

We need another boost to conservation efforts the way it happened in the eighties. And we definitely need more conservation science research funding, to find better long-term solutions to heritage preservation.