Organizacja ochrony zabytków w niektórych krajach : analiza porównawcza i propozycje nowych rozwiązań w Polsce

A proper organization of conservation bodies and services as well as co-operating institutions is one of the elements that decide of the effectiveness of monuments' protection. Different countries have adopted different, often divergent, organizational solutions, though the tasks of conservation institutions are, on the whole, the same everywhere. The author discusses the tasks of the organization of monuments’ protection in Holland, FRG, France, USA, Italy and Hungary. The solutions adopted in Poland have been presented against the background of the concepts adopted in those countries. While trying to find the answer to the question what a proper organization of the protection of cultural property should look like, the author ponders several models. He analyses, i.a., models that consist in the formation of an independent central body or conservation organizations that would operate within the structure of some ministries such as the ministry of culture, environment, internal affairs or within a constructional branch. In the final part of the article we find conclusions which show that the execution of monuments' protection in Poland calls for the creation of an effective and centrally positioned independent administrative state body which will have at its disposal an efficient system of field services. These services should be separated from field administration and perform mainly supervising and control functions and cooperate — in their endeavours — with social organizations with adequate capacities.