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The Western Association for Art Conservation (WAAC) is a nonprofit regional membership organization for conservation professionals based in the Western United States, although membership is open to all irrespective of geographical location. ==Aims== WAAC serves its members, who have a professional responsibility for the preservation of cultural heritage, and disseminates information through its publications and annual meeting/conference. WAAC advances knowledge, practice and standards for the conservation profession. WAAC's bylaws state that the specific purposes of WAAC are: * To provide an organization that advances the knowledge of conservation and improves the methods of conservation needed to protect, preserve, and maintain the condition and integrity of objects, structures, or sites that, because of their history, significance, rarity, or quality of work, have a commonly accepted value and importance for the public interest. * To expand knowledge of all subjects related to the conservation of artistic, historic, and other cultural property. * To encourage education, study, and research in the conservation of artistic, historic, and other cultural property. * To promote proficiency and skill in the practice of the conservation of artistic, historic, and other cultural property. * To maintain and promote professional relationships, standards of practice, and ethics for conservators, and to oppose any influences that would tend to lower such standards and ethics. * To organize and otherwise participate in exhibitions dealing with the conservation of artistic, historic, and other cultural property. * To publish, sell, circulate, and distribute books, magazines, publications, literature, films, magnetic tapes, and digital media dealing with the conservation of artistic, historic, and other cultural property. * To solicit funds and to receive donations and legacies. To execute the expenditure of grant monies. * To take all action necessary or desirable in order to accomplish any of the purposes of WAAC, provided that such action is in conformity with the provisions of the California Law, Revenue and Taxation Code, Section 23701d, or the Federal Internal Revenue Code, Section 501(c)(3). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Association for Art Conservation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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