The Bayon
Symposium started in the form that JSA sponsors and UNESCO
serves as the secretariat in 1996 in order to discuss a
framework for “The Master Plan for the Conservation
and Restoration of the Bayon Complex”. Since then
every year, it is held in Siem Reap, the town of Angkor
monuments. As various technical problems for the conservation
and restoration of Bayon are related to the whole Angkor
monument, the symposium provided the important forum to
exchange opinions by all participating teams from every
country. Also this symposium does not intend to settle the
problem within Angkor itself, but it also intends to learn
from the relevant precedents in the world and to consider
Angkor’s conservation and restoration problems from
a world wide viewpoint. Specifically we had positive participation
by international experts who have esteemed experiences and
noticeable result from the conservation and restoration
work in other important monuments of the world.
“The Master Plan for the Conservation and Restoration
of the Bayon Complex” is studied through;
- Conservation and restoration activities in Angkor
- “Venice Charter (1964)”
- “The Nara Document on Authenticity (1994)”
- Conservation and restoration activities in the world
It was aiming at the new guideline for the conservation
and restoration of the Asian and world cultural heritage.
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