[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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Apr
Apr
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 […]
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Oct
Oct
[download pdf version here] A few months ago we witnessed the demolition of Kuching’s former Information Department building on Jalan Masjid. “Another building of historical value has turned to dust” wrote Sidi Munan in a Borneo Post column. He drew a parallel with the demolition some years ago, of the Audit / Old Secretariat building […]
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Jul
Jul
Talents… here is a poem by an eminent SHS member: Schoolboy Memories of the old Sarawak Museum In the 1960s and 70s, many years ago when I was still a young lad at school A visit to the Sarawak Museum was so memorable, exciting and very cool The building sat atop a grassy slope Classic […]
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Apr
Apr
On 29th March, members of SHS gave a briefing on the history & heritage of the Petanak and Blacksmith Road area of Kuching to a group of thirty-six Architecture undergraduates and lecturers from the Faculty of Built Environment, UNIMAS (Universiti Malaysia Sarawak), led by Dean Prof Ar NurAkmal. Afterwards the students were led on an […]
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Feb
Feb
In the third and final part of this series, we look at SHS activities during the presidencies of Karen Shepherd (2014-2016) and Dato Sri Robert Jacob Ridu (2016-2020). The year 2014 marked a point of inflexion in SHS’s approaches to its mandate. The Exco team led by Karen Shepherd decided to engage in a proactive […]