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5.18.1 Definition of Cultural Property. For the purpose of the 1954 Hague CulturalProperty Convention and this manual, cultural property includes, irrespective of origin orownership: 469• movable or immovable property of great importance to the cultural heritage of everypeople; 470• buildings intended to shelter cultural property; 471 and• centers containing monuments. 4725.18.1.1 Definition of Cultural Property – Notes on Terminology. “Culturalproperty” is a term of art that is defined in the 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention. Thedefinition in the 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention may be more limited than culturalproperty described and protected by other instruments.For example, the Lieber Code contemplates protection for property belonging to“establishments of an exclusively charitable character, to establishments of education, orfoundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies oflearning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character,” as well as“[c]lassical works of art, libraries, scientific collections, or precious instruments, such asastronomical telescopes.” 473 The Hague IV Regulations seek to protect “buildings dedicated toreligion, art, science, or charitable purposes, historic monuments.” 474 Hague IX seeks to protect“sacred edifices, buildings used for artistic, scientific, or charitable purposes, [and] historicmonuments.” 475 The Roerich Pact seeks to protect “historic monuments, museums, scientific,artistic, educational and cultural institutions.” 476 AP I seeks to protect “historic monuments,469 1954 HAGUE CULTURAL PROPERTY CONVENTION art. 1 (“For the purposes of the present Convention, the term‘cultural property’ shall cover, irrespective of origin or ownership: (a) movable or immovable property of greatimportance to the cultural heritage of every people, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, whetherreligious or secular; archaeological sites; groups of buildings which, as a whole, are of historical or artistic interest;works of art; manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest; as well asscientific collections and important collections of books or archives or of reproductions of the property definedabove; (b) buildings whose main and effective purpose is to preserve or exhibit the movable cultural propertydefined in sub-paragraph (a) such as museums, large libraries and depositories of archives, and refuges intended toshelter, in the event of armed conflict, the movable cultural property defined in subparagraph (a); (c) centrescontaining a large amount of cultural property as defined in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), to be known as ‘centrescontaining monuments’.”).470 Refer to § 5.18.1.2 (Movable or Immovable Property of Great Importance to the Cultural Heritage of EveryPeople).471 Refer to § 5.18.1.3 (Buildings Intended to Preserve Cultural Property).472 Refer to § 5.18.1.4 (Centers Containing Monuments).473 LIEBER CODE arts. 34-36.474 HAGUE IV REG. art. 27.475 HAGUE IX art. 5.476 ROERICH PACT art. 1.270