Article 1. Definition of cultural property
For the purposes of the present Convention, the term "cultural property" shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership:
- (a)
- movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of
architecture, art or history, whether religious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or
artistic interest; works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well as scientific
collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property defined above;
- (b)
- buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural property defined in
sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended to shelter, in the event of armed
conflict, the movable cultural property defined in subparagraph (a);
- (c)
- centres containing a large amount of cultural property as defined in subparagraphs (a) and (b), to be known as "centres
containing monuments".
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