The transformation of conditions within the postmodern and global field, lead into changes in the way of perceiving as well as a new understandingof the notion of culture and cultural legacy. Some changes refer to the state-nation crisis; the contrasting enlargement and diversification of the notion of culture and its relativisation as well as its nature, when becoming an incomprehensible subject -stream of communication or simbolic element. A reinforcement of the cultural appropriation in the local and world field is also verified, regarding accelerated deterioration, the drawing out of context, originality loss and goods commercialisation.