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CHENNAI: AusHeritage, the Sydney-based heritage management organisation, has launched a major capacity-building exercise that will put together a charter of conservation for monuments and museums in India, according to its chairman Vinod Daniel. The organisation, which has a worldwide network of cultural services, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with INTACH for the initiative that will also evolve a model for mapping biodiversity hotspots in the country. In collaboration with the Natural History Museum, AusHeritage will map threatened species and convert the data into digital form for posting on the museum website. “Future development projects can check whether their proposed sites contain any endangered species,” Mr. Daniel told The Hindu. The heritage expert, who has his roots in Chennai, was recently here for a felicitation hosted by the Indo-Australian Association on his being re-appointed to the Australia-India Council by the Governor General of Australia. According to him, for a country like India, whose heritage is a subject of worldwide envy, there is a great need to buttress the passion for the past with scientific restoration protocols and a legal framework. “We approach heritage preservation not from the viewpoint of saving a single historic building; rather look at it from the larger perspective of heritage management planning for an entire industry,” said Mr. Daniel, who has led important projects, including the one to develop a new exhibition gallery at the Chhatrapati Shivaji (Prince of Wales) Museum in Mumbai. The fundamentals of conserving listed heritage buildings in a particular city include scientifically examining what parts of an edifice needs to be preserved or planning an “adaptive re-use of the building,” in which some portions are kept intact and the other areas re-engineered aesthetically. Though AusHeritage does not have a specific plan for museums in Tamil Nadu, it is keen on collaboration, Mr. Daniel said. In fact, besides lending technical expertise in restoration, AusHeritage can help in enhancing the way interpretation is done for exhibits in a museum.
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