The American Council for the Preservation of Cultural Property’s express mission is to represent and promote the rights of individuals, dealers and institutions to collect, trade, acquire and exhibit cultural property, and to maintain the integrity of the legitimate trade in cultural property, fostering the licit dissemination of cultural artifacts to the betterment of humanity’s understanding of ourselves and our cultures, past and present.To represent and defend those who cherish, possess, collect, inherit, sell, study, acquire and exhibit objects of cultural property.