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 […]
Food for Thought/Opinions, Heritage News/Info, SHS News
“Sarawak’s Endangered Heritage”: a panorama by SHS President James Yong
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Jul
[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
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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Apr
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 […]
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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 […]