Heritage Theory and Practice Exam

…………………………… is an educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, firsthand experience, and illustrative media rather than simply to communicate factual information.

• Cultural Tourism

• Heritage Interpretation

• Heritage

…………………………… a list of properties forming part of the cultural heritage and natural heritage, which it considers as having outstanding universal value in terms of such criteria as it shall have established. An updated list shall be distributed at least every two years.

• Heritage

• World Heritage List

• Cultural Tourism

…………………………… refers to travellers seeing or otherwise experiencing built heritage, living culture or manifestations of art. Its tangible and intangible resources are found in rural and urban settings. Visits are motivated by a desire to enhance one's cultural self, learn something new, spend time with friends and family, satisfy one's curiosity, or use up excess time.

• Heritage Tourism

• Heritage Interpretation

• Cultural Tourism

Decide if the phrase is True or False. Cultural Heritage includes only intangible cultural heritage embedded into cultural and natural heritage artefacts, sites, or monuments.

• True

• False

Decide if the phrase is True or False. Natural Heritage is natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty.

• True

• False

Decide if the phrase is True or False. The World Heritage Committee is a Local Committee for the Protection of the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Outstanding Universal Value.

• True

• False

Decide if the phrase is True or False. UNESCO is the International Council of Museums, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to museums, founded in 1946, and has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

• True

• False

Circle the most accurate answer. Egypt was concerned with protecting archaeological remains during the past century, this was evident in the:

• Law No. 144 of 2006

• Law No. 102 of 1983

• Law No. 117 of 1983

• Law No. 127 of 1980

Choose the most accurate answer.

UNESCO: Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Was.......................

• Was created in 1972

• Was held in Cairo

• Was created in 2009

The craft tradition 'Handmade weaving in Upper Egypt (Sa'eed)', this craft is neglected and not transmitted as it was in the past. So this Heritage property is must listed in the:

• World Heritage List

• Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage

• List of World Heritage in Danger