Risk Management Program for Preventive Conservation and to Avoid Illegal Trafficking of Cultural Property

Authors

  • Thalía Edith Velasco Castelán Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9239-7134
  • Ricardo Herrera García Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1649-3976
  • Mónica P. Badillo Leal Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0016-3331

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.241.v1n23.20.2021

Keywords:

illicit trafficking, preventive conservation, theft of cultural property, risk management, public communication

Abstract

The theft of cultural property is an international problem that affects countries with cultural heritage such as Mexico’s. The Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), responsible for the regulation and protection of paleontological, archaeological and historical cultural property, generates tools that prevent illegal trafficking. Its Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC-INAH) has generated a Risk Management Program for Preventive Conservation and to Avoid Illegal Trafficking of Cultural Property. The program consists of three campaigns: regulations, training and updating, and communication campaign, titled What do We Stand to Lose When Our Heritage is Stolen? that will be responsible for generating public discussion about the seriousness of this issue.

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Author Biographies

Thalía Edith Velasco Castelán, Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México

Restorer who graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía (ENCRyM-INAH). She holds a Master’s Degree in Applied History from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA). In 2013 she received the Paul Coremans-INAH award to the best Master’s thesis on conservation for her research “Construction and value of the Mexican legislative and regulatory documentary legacy (1914-2012).” She has headed the Dirección de Educación Social para la Conservación of CNCPC since March 2016. In recent years she has devoted herself to working on the registration, dissemination and social links of cultural property, and on spreading the word about its conservation.

Ricardo Herrera García, Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México

He studied administrative computer science at the Universidad Tecnológica de México (UNITEC, Mexico), and attended the seminar on a “System to manage and modernize management capacity in Latin American countries in 2018” at Peking University (PKU, China). He is currently working towards another Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration and Management at the Universidad Abierta y a Distancia de México (UnADM). He has been with INAH for 16 years and has accumulated experience in different areas of the Institution such as: Museo Nacional de Historia-Castillo de Chapultepec and the Coordinación Nacional de Recursos Humanos. Since 2016, he has been working at CNCPC where he currently heads the management and regulations office.

Mónica P. Badillo Leal, Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural (CNCPC), Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México

Designer and visual communicator who specializes in the design of 3D support materials by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She holds a certificate in Visual Merchandising and Emotional Branding from the Universidad Jannette Klein. Between 2009 and 2014 she collaborated in designing, producing and setting up exhibition design projects at: Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura [INBAL]), Galery of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo Arte de Guatemala, Centro Cultural Mexiquense Bicentenario and Museo Nacional del Virreinato (INAH). From 2014 to date she works as a graphic designer in projects dealing with preserving and restoring cultural property at CNCPC.

References

Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural. (s.f.). Manual de prevención de robo en recintos religiosos. Recuperado de https://conservacion.inah.gob.mx/publicaciones/?p=1014

Morales, M. (2020 [1997]). Manual de prevención del robo en recintos religiosos. Segunda edición Thalía Velasco Castelán (Coord.). Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural-Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Recuperado de https://conservacion.inah.gob.mx/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/manual_digital_vinculos.pdf

Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura. (1970). Convención sobre las medidas que deben adoptarse para prohibir e impedir la importación, la exportación y la transferencia de propiedad Ilícitas de bienes culturales. Recuperado de http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. (21 de noviembre, 1970). Poder Ejecutivo, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Decreto por el que se promulga el Tratado de cooperación entre Estados Unidos Mexicanos y los Estados Unidos de América, que dispone la recuperación y devolución de bienes arqueológicos, históricos y culturales robados [17 de julio de 1970]. Recuperado de https://aplicaciones.sre.gob.mx/tratados/ARCHIVOS/EUA-BIENES%20ARQUEOLOGICOS%201970.pdf

Published

2021-06-29

How to Cite

Velasco Castelán, T. E., Herrera García, R. ., & Badillo Leal, M. P. (2021). Risk Management Program for Preventive Conservation and to Avoid Illegal Trafficking of Cultural Property. Intervención, 1(23), 13–31. https://doi.org/10.30763/intervencion.241.v1n23.20.2021

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