10 Facts About Heritage science

Heritage science is the interdisciplinary domain of scientific study of cultural or natural heritage.

Heritage science is an umbrella term encompassing all forms of scientific enquiry into human works and the combined works of nature and humans, of value to people.

Heritage science is an excellent vehicle for public engagement with science as well as heritage.

Field still requires its literature canon, and opinions on whether heritage science is a domain in its own right or a field of research diverge.

Heritage science is an old field of research: in his Royal Institution Christmas Lecture in 1843, Michael Faraday already pointed out how pollution importantly contributes to book degradation.

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Heritage science that is accessible, in its preserved authentic form or as a reproduction, is a "resource for economic growth, employment and social cohesion".

Heritage science can be considered an anthropogenic analogue to environmental geography, which was defined by Halford Mackinder in 1887 as a discipline that aims to "bridge one of the greatest of all gaps" between "the natural sciences and the study of humanity".

The project found that there is no gap between rigour and relevance in heritage science research, but rather that there is a continuum of activity.

Since 2010, Master's degree courses in heritage science have become available at University College London and Queen's University Belfast.

In Spain, the Spanish Network of Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage brings together more than 65 research groups working in heritage science, from the Spanish National Research Council, universities, conservation institutes and other cultural institutions.