Affiliation:
1. Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics
Abstract
Maintaining cultural heritage is an essential element of any effort to realize the growth potential
and promote sustainability and vitality of rural areas. Founding of traditional craft centers in
Lithuania was initiated in 2009 as a way to implement heritage safeguarding measures. Scientific
problem was formulated as follows: did these centers prove to be an effective instrument of heritage
policy? The present paper aimed at investigating the extent, to which traditional craft centers had
implemented its role in safeguarding cultural heritage, and present recommendations for the improvement.
Interview questionnaire was sent to 20 municipalities and 51 LAGs, responsible for the
establishment of centers. It was identified that craft centers implemented measures, related to safeguarding
of cultural heritage, rather actively and qualitatively. On the other hand, not all measures
were implemented sufficiently, what made the process of safeguarding traditional crafts not continuous
but partly fragmented. Improvement of traditional crafts centers resource management along
with promotion of cooperation between TCC, operating in the same municipality, is recommended.
Publisher
Vytautas Magnus University
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