The International Salt Conference: "Salt production in the world: Global past, local future" has recently taken place in Mariager and Læsø, Denmark. Salt specialists of ten different countries (see photo) debated during six days about the past and the future of traditional salt and its cultural and natural heritage. A heavy social programme was prepared, with visits to the Danish Salt Centre in Mariager, the AkZo Nobel Salt Plant, the Læsø Salt Works and the Læsø Kur thalassotherapy centre (see photo below), among others. The evenings were used to show videos related to salt heritage, well accompanied by local snaps and akvavit.
The main conclusions of the conference were:
1. The exchange of information of salt experts coming from different disciplines, professional backgrounds and geographical origins has been very enriching for all participants. Even being considered salt experts all of them, many aspects of salt heritage that have been presented and discussed were new to many of them.
2. The dissemination, recovery and future use of salt heritage need to be approached in an integrated manner, allowing the interaction of different disciplines. The use of planning instruments and management models prove to be useful tools for these tasks.
3. Each historic salt making site should make use of its specific heritage when disseminating or recovering it, joining the specific salt heritage to other forms of related heritage present in the site and creating a unique complex. This will prevent, for instance, different salt museums to be clones of each other, and thereby attracting more public.
4. Certain types of salt heritage (certain salt making techniques, certain natural or cultural aspects of salt making) are only known to specialists and more effort should be put into disseminating them to other specialists, to policy makers and to the general public.
5. Modern uses of salt natural and cultural heritage can be compatible with their preservation
2. The dissemination, recovery and future use of salt heritage need to be approached in an integrated manner, allowing the interaction of different disciplines. The use of planning instruments and management models prove to be useful tools for these tasks.
3. Each historic salt making site should make use of its specific heritage when disseminating or recovering it, joining the specific salt heritage to other forms of related heritage present in the site and creating a unique complex. This will prevent, for instance, different salt museums to be clones of each other, and thereby attracting more public.
4. Certain types of salt heritage (certain salt making techniques, certain natural or cultural aspects of salt making) are only known to specialists and more effort should be put into disseminating them to other specialists, to policy makers and to the general public.
5. Modern uses of salt natural and cultural heritage can be compatible with their preservation
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