The Burra Charter is a document published by the Australian ICOMOS which defines the basic principles and procedures to be followed in the conservation of Australian heritage places.
[1] The Charter was first endorsed in 1979 as an Australian adaptation of the Venice Charter, but with the introduction of a new analytical conservation model of heritage assessment[2] that recognised forms of cultural heritage beyond tangible and physical forms.
[4] The Charter has been revised on four occasions since 1979, and has been internationally influential in providing standard guidelines for heritage conservation practice.
The Charter is periodically revised and updated, and the 2004 publication The Illustrated Burra Charter[7] elaborates and explains the principles of the 1999 version in an easy to understand form.
[10] The Burra Charter begins with a series of definitions, such as : The types of actions that might be taken in the Conservation of a heritage place are defined as :