Description
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world. The program supports a wide range of activities, including anastylosis, conservation, consolidation, documentation, inventory, preventive conservation, restoration, and stabilization. The AFCP award may be a cooperative agreement with substantial involvement.
• Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
• Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
• Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
• Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
• Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
• Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
• Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
• Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.