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The basic public amenities like drinking water, toilets, signages, etc. are available at most of the Centrally Protected Monuments including World Heritage Sites.
Further, wheelchairs, ramps, Braille cultural notice boards and disabled friendly public amenities have been provided to make these sites accessible to persons with disabilities.

Steps have been taken by the Government to upgrade the existing infrastructure at museums and art galleries 

• Ramps are available for easy access to the museums. Appropriate action for retro-fitting has already been taken up where such facilities were not available.
• Lift provided in museums, wherever feasible.
• Tactile Path, Braille signages, toilets for differently-abled persons available in most of museums/galleries.
• Wheelchairs are available in all museums/galleries.
• Some of Museums/Galleries have developed exhibitions with Braille labels and tactile path.

Cultural heritage

• It is the legacy of cultural resources and intangible attributes of a group or society that is inherited from past generations.
• Not all legacies of past generations are "heritage", rather heritage is a product of selection by society.
• Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).
• The deliberate act of keeping cultural and heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English) or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic museums and cultural centers promote, though these terms may have more specific or technical meaning in the same contexts in the other dialect.
• Preserved heritage has become an anchor of the global tourism industry, a major contributor economic value to local communities

Source: PIB