NOT TO BE MISSED! our SPECIAL YEAR-EN EVENT in our HERITAGE SPEAKERS SERIES, on ‘HERITAGE CONSERVATION AND ADAPTIVE REUSE’. Date & Time: Sunday 18th December 2022, 10:30 a.m.- 4 p.m. (doors open at 10 a.m. for registration) Venue: Borneo Cultures Museum, Arts & Crafts Gallery, Level 2 Three speakers, Ar. Tan Bee Eu, Ar. Au […]
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Join in a conversation on Melanau culture and traditional healing practice, and The Realm Between” with Dr. Rolf Schlömer and Ms Diana Rose. Sunday 21st August, at 3 p.m. (doors open at 2:30) at the Borneo Cultures Museum, Kuching (Arts and Crafts Room, Level 2). (Access through main BCM entrance. You will not be charged […]
Earlier this year Badan Warisan Malaysia (BWM) ran a series of six web talks entitled ‘Spotlight on Sarawak’, curated by YBhg. Tan Sri Leo Moggie and Puan Sri Elizabeth Moggie. BWM has now produced and uploaded the video recordings of these talks on its YouTube channel. Below are the links to these recordings: DATE SPOTLIGHT […]
This SHS ‘Heritage Speakers Series’ first ‘physical’ talk since 2020 was co-hosted by SHS and the Sarawak Museum Department. It was attended by 90+ persons. The Borneo Post and the new Sarawak Tribune reported on the talk: 2022 07 30 ‘State Government Looking into Rejuvenating Heritage’ – Borneo Post [ link ] 2022 08 […]
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“Sarawak’s Endangered Heritage”: a panorama by SHS President James Yong
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[Article updated 05/08/2022 to, in particular, add the link to the video of the talk, kindly produced and put on YouTube by Badan Warisan Malaysia] In 1983, Lucas Chin, then Director of the Sarawak Museum, wrote: “Our heritage is not only being increasingly threatened by the natural causes of decay, but also by economic and […]
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SHS President’s message at the occasion of World Heritage Day 2022 April 18 is this year’s WORLD HERITAGE DAY or – to use its original name – ‘the International Day for Monuments and Sites’, which was first declared by UNESCO in 1983. The idea for hosting the day as a world event was recognised at […]