Cultural heritage

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Strategic objective:

The diversity of cultural monuments, sites and environments will be managed and enhanced as resources for continued active use and as a repository of knowledge, to provide opportunities for experiencing our cultural heritage, and as a basis for economic activity. A representative selection of cultural monuments, sites and environments will be safeguarded on a long-term basis.

National targets

Indicators

Status

Minimise losses
Annual losses of cultural monuments, sites and environments as a result of demolition, damage and decay will be minimised, and by 2020 will not exceed 0.5% of the total.

Percentage annual loss of buildings listed in the register of historical buildings (SEFRAK) in selected municipalities, based on data from SEFRAK and the GAB register (the official Norwegian register for property, addresses and buildings)  



SEFRAK register: annual loss
 

Percentage annual loss of registered archaeological monuments  



Archaeological monuments: annual loss
 

Proportion of registered archaeological monuments without fresh damage  



Archaeological monuments: damage
 
 

Safeguard protected monuments and sites
Cultural monuments, sites and environments protected under the Cultural Heritage Act will be safeguarded and a standard requiring only normal maintenance will be achieved by 2020.

Proportion of protected buildings and other structures maintained at a standard requiring only normal maintenance  



Protected buildings: standards of maintenance
 
 

Protect representative monuments and sites
The selection of permanently protected cultural monuments, sites and environments will include a wider range in terms of geography, social class, ethnicity, industrial and commercial use and historical periods, and by 2020 a representative selection of these monuments, sites and environments will be protected under the Cultural Heritage Act

Increase in the number of protection orders for monuments and sites in poorly represented groups, including coastal heritage  



Protection orders: annual profile