Center for Cultural Property Protection

The Center for Cultural Property Protection was founded in 2015 at the Danube University Krems, Austria. Our mission is engaged in applied research projects and teaching to establish cultural heritage protection as a university discipline and to raise awareness of the importance and scope of this topic for society as a whole, and to develop concrete protective measures for cultural property. 

Armed conflicts, the intentional destruction of cultural property as an act of terrorism, natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, man-made disasters as well as vandalism and neglect, endanger and destroy our irreplaceable cultural heritage.  

Our aim is to contribute to the preservation of cultural identity, to build a conscious approach to cultural heritage and to establish a targeted protection of tangible (movable and immovable) and intangible cultural property that is oriented towards current threats.