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European Cemeteries: Gardens of Souls, Diversity & Heritage
Start date: Jun 1, 2011,

Among some of the most interesting heritages of the EU territory and its citizens are their monumental or significant cemeteries, witnesses of our socio-cultural diversity, History and artistic movements. Through their structure (architecture, sculptures and mausoleums, green areas, churches, etc.) many significant cemeteries are a clear demonstration of the artistic evolution of Europe, mostly between the Romanticism and Modernism. Some of them are also identified with the personalities buried within their walls (intellectuals, artists, writers, politicians, etc.), and some epitaphs are even studied for their literary interest. EUCEMET general aim is to highlight the importance of cemeteries and funerary arts as a significant part of European tangible and intangible cultural heritage and memory, and thus deserve some special attention and specific planning and management.More specifically, the short-term objectives of the project pretend to identify and adopt a series of good practices in order to facilitate the accessibility, opening and understanding of cemeteries to visitors ("MUSEALISATION" OF CEMETERIES) and thus, to increase the public-awareness on such monuments.To fulfil our objectives, the following multidisciplinary and complementary cooperation activities will be developped:a) 3 Thematic Workshops (and parallel study visits)- on Management of Services for Visitors at Cemeteries. - on Conservation & Restoration issues linked to Cemeteries. - on the Promotion of the Cemeteries and their surrounding territoriesb) Edition of 3 Q&A Good Practices Guides & Blogc) Production and international itinerancy of an exhibition of some 150 artistic pictures about our European Cemeteries.d) Development of a pilot project of "Augmented Reality Browser for Mobile Technologies" in European cemeteriese) Dissemination activities (in the local, regional & specialised media, as well as among ASCE members and other potential beneficiaries/users of our outputs)

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