Having at one time referred exclusively to the monumental remains of cultures, heritage as a concept has gradually come to include new categories such as the intangible, ethnographic or industrial heritage. A noteworthy effort was subsequently made to extend the conceptualization and description of the intangible heritage. This is due to the fact that closer attention is now being paid to humankind, the dramatic arts, languages and traditional music, as well as to the informational, spiritual and philosophical systems upon which creations are based.(UNESCO)
A tradition, habit, skill, art form or institution which is passed from one generation to the next. See also Significance.
Items or sites with significance for past or existing social history.
(her•i•tage) n. – things handed down from generation to generation, such as traditions and languages that have cultural importance.
The ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.
Something that is inherited or passed down because it is appreciated and cherished. Categories of cultural heritage include; built structures and their surrounds, gardens, trees; cultural landscapes; sites; areas; precincts; cemeteries; ruins and archaeological sites; shipwrecks; sites of important events; commemorative sites; contents of buildings and significant relics, objects artefacts and collections of objects.
Any thing or concept considered of aesthetic, historical, scientific or spiritual significance.
Any concept or thing, natural or artificial, which is considered to have aesthetic, historical, scientific or spiritual significance.
The cultural resources that reflect the nation's maritime history and traditional cultural connections to the sea, as well as the uses and values they provide to this and future generations.
historical and archeological past.
Cultural heritage can be defined as those things and places associated with human activity. The definition is very broad, and includes both Indigenous and historic values.
Cultural heritage ("national heritage" or just "heritage") is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations. Often though, what is considered cultural heritage by one generation may be rejected by the next generation, only to be revived by a succeeding generation.