Оценка на културни и художествени ценности : Първи випуск
Valuation of Cultural Heritage and Artworks : First Class

Contributor(s): Katia Mihailova (Composer), Mirolyuba Yachkova (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Museology & Heritage Studies, Library and Information Science, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Университет за национално и световно стопанство (УНСС)
Keywords: cultural heritage; postgraduate education; museum collections; cultural property; artworks appraisal
Summary/Abstract: The book “Valuation of Cultural Heritage and Artworks” is focused on the methods and instruments for valuation of cultural heritage goods and works of art. It contains the results of the first valuations of artefacts from museum and private collections of the graduates of the post graduate university course of “Management and Valuation of Cultural Goods and Artworks”. The presented valuations are for educational purposes. They are developed by the students during the course of education in the postgraduate program and presented as a graduate thesis. Alongside the students’ valuations the book presents the experience we gained in the process of designing and implementing an innovative educational service aimed at establishing professional specialization in the valuation and insurance of cultural goods and artworks. This is the two-semester postgraduate course of “Management and Valuation of Cultural Goods and Artworks”, which was held for the first time in 2024-2025 at the Institute for Postgraduate Studies, UNWE. The first part of the book presents the educational, methodological and value-based basis of the postgraduate course. The content of the book is structured in four parts. The first presents the methodological and value-based ground of the first university postgraduate course of “Management and Valuation of Cultural Goods and Artworks”. The second contains students’ valuations of artefacts from national and regional museums. The valuations of artefacts from private collections are in the third part and the forth last part presents the results of valuation of an immovable cultural heritage. The methodological frame of the presented valuations is build mainly of David Thorsby theory of economic and cultural value of culture heritage goods and artworks. The students also applied the Bulgarian, European and International Valuation Standards and followed the principles of research and valuations ethics. The structure of each valuation contains the following three parts: expert description of the artefact elaborated on the Dimitar Ivanov’s methodology of complex expertise of cultural and artwork; assessment of economic and cultural value of the artefact; proposal for insurance value.

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