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 […]
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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 […]
Food for Thought/Opinions, Heritage News/Info, SHS News
“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 […]
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[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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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 […]