Gdański Ośrodek Ochrony Dóbr Kultury - geneza koncepcji, założenia programowe THE GDAŃSK CENTRE FOR THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL VALUES — THE ORIGINS OF THE IDEA, PROGRAM ASSUMPTIONS
A guideline for activities in the field of the protection and schaping
of cultural life in Gdańsk voivodship was provided by the resolution
o f the plenary session o f the Voivodship Committee of the P.Z.P.R.
(the Polish United Workers’ Party). The session was held in 1972
and it concerned the main trends for the development of culture
in Gdańsk voivodship until the year o f 1980. When executing
a work program adopted at the session there arose a conception
to set up the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection of Cultural Values
as a conservation body o f scientific and research nature. The idea
was brought into life in June 1975 on the foundations of the Office
for the Research and Documentation o f Historic Monuments
in Gdańsk voivodship, in existence since 1970. The newly-opened
Centre found its seat in a historic Turret of Anchorers’ (Baszta
Kotwiczników). In future the seat will be moved to the granary of
„Mały and Duży Groddeck” at Chmielna street.
As the guidelines for its work the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection
o f Cultural Values has adopted two programs. The program minimum
assumes a full recording of monuments in Gdańsk voivodship.
A starting point for this program was a very long experience
and output o f the people and organizations involved in the problem.
The program maximum envisaged the expansion of the earlier
program with research and experimental studies aimed at an
overall elaboration of historic monuments conceived, in the broad
sense, as „cultural values”. According to the definition adopted
temporarily by the research team o f the Centre, a cultural value
is a set of objects that have a definite value, function, date o f the
origin, style and that are the product o f human wilful activities
in a creative process. The cultural value is an integral part of both
universal culture and of the culture of a specific community and
proves its development at a given historical stage. The „value”
conceived in that sense is a testimony to the history o f the nation
and has a great cognitive value for present generations. Being
a genuine reflection o f the social existence, its civilisation and
ideology, the cultural value is a factor affecting, i.a., the awareness
o f a contemporary man, for whom the knowledge of manifestations
o f culture in the past helps to get to know and to comprehend
the present age. The notion of „cultural value” is inseparably
linked with two other concepts, namely „cultural heritage” (i.e. cultural
legacy of the bygone society) and „cultural environment”.
The latter concept denotes groups o f people producing cultural
values and also places in which the value is created and with which
it is inseparably connected.
And it is that second aspect o f the problem, conceived in the broadest
sense, that makes the focus o f interests and research works
carried out by the Gdańsk Centre for the Protection of Cultural
Values. Hence, the term „cultural environment” covered landscape
including all natural and man-made elements. The following
sections have already been set up for the full execution of the
adopted programs: the Team of the Monuments Research and
Documentation Workshop, the Team o f the Conservation Workshop
for Works o f Art, Documentation Department, Servicing
Workshops, Independent Post for Building and Investment, Independent
Post for Defence and Protection of Historic Monuments
as well as Finance and Administration and Economic Department.
The departments group experts in different fields, to mention only
architects, art and architecture historians, engineers. They also
maintain a close contact with research workers and cultural organizations
in the Baltic Coast and in the country.
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