Rural heritage in Poland. Asset or Burden? Paulina Florjanowicz Director of the National Heritage Board of Poland EHHF meeting, Amsterdam 2011

NOWADAYS: 73% area of Poland is rural 40% population lives in rural areas, 26% employed in agriculture (producing only 6% GDP) Źródło:

RURAL HERITAGE

51% listed monuments are located in rural areas; c. 90% of them are however palaces, castles and manor houses.

89 listed rural areas (most of them entered in 1980s) It constitutes 8% of all listed areas (92% are urban areas) RURAL LANDSCAPE Źródło

OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS

THE 1990s

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POSITIVE EXAMPLE

PROBLEMS

SOLUTIONS? Spatial planning !!! EU funding with experts advice Effective heritage management Heritage awareness raising programmes Intangible heritage protection

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