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Address: Rm 103, Ground Floor Thomas Aquinas Research Complex University of Santo Tomas, Espaņa, Manila, 1008 Philippines e-mail: cccpet@mnl.ust.edu.ph Related links: www.ustmuseum.org INTRODUCTION: Cultural Heritage includes all the products of human activities, which has a bearing on development, progress, history, community/social and personal identity. The University of Santo Tomas with its almost four hundred years of history can truly be proud of its heritage, concretized in various modalities. For cultural heritage defined as tangible-immovable, the University has within its campus historic monuments and buildings. And, when it comes to tangible-movable cultural heritage, the contents of the archives and the museum are innumerable. These give the University an unparalleled cultural-historical significance and also the great responsibility to conserve and pass these to future generations. However, the process of conservation requires understanding and research. For although these objects are available to heritage workers, enthusiasts and students who wish to embark on serious research, there should be an organized body to coordinate and promote all university activities of research pertaining to Cultural Heritage. In fact, Heritage and Research are much intertwined, since Cultural Property and Environment with high historic, aesthetic, social and scientific significance are properly understood only through research. It is a systematic human activity, which in turn brings about products considered to be essential part of heritage. The Center for Conservation of Cultural Property and Environment in the Tropics (CCCPET), officially inaugurated in 4 September 2003 is the organizing body to hold the flagship of all cultural heritage research concerns in the University. 
Dominican Provincial Prior Rev. Fr. Ernesto Arceo, |
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