Tomáš Mikolaj
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) began to deal systematically with the issue of intangible cultural heritage at the beginning of the 1980s. The result is a coordinated programme of care for traditional culture as part of the oral and intangible cultural heritage of human kind, which also includes the field of traditional crafts. We discussed the methods for protecting intangible cultural heritage with Juraj Hamar, director of SĽUK, long-standing president of the Council of the Minister of Culture for the protection of intangible cultural heritage and member of the Slovak delegation at sessions of UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.