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Update on our ‘Heritage Quest’ Campaign

[updated 09/2020] SHS launched its ‘HERITAGE QUEST’ (‘HQ’) campaign in November 2018 as part of its efforts to highlight and preserve Sarawak’s cultural heritage assets and to advocate for additional listing and gazetting of heritage items that are not in the list of cultural heritage items already listed by the Government as historic buildings, monuments […]

Misc. Heritage News – February to July 2018

  Click here to download pdf version What we spotted of interest on the Sarawak and regional cultural heritage scene in the last six months. NATION WIDE Heritage management did not feature during the political campaigns during the 14th General Elections of 9 May 2018. After the elections, calls were made to reinstate a ministry […]

Misc. Heritage News – August 2017 to January 2018

click here to download pdf version   What we spotted on the Sarawak and regional heritage scene in the last 6 months SARAWAK SHS IN THE NEWS: the media reported on the meetings the Sarawak Heritage Society committee had with the Sarawak Chief Minister and the Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Sports in late […]

Colouring heritage buildings?

“The adage “old is gold” [rings] true when it {comes] to preserving historical buildings in the country. ‘Leave the buildings as it is and give them a new coat of paint of the same colour. This is the correct way of preserving them and stop approving high-rise or modern buildings. […] It is not just […]

Cultural heritage management in Sarawak: how we see things and how we can contribute

At our recent meeting with the Sarawak Chief Minister we recalled SHS’s views on Sarawak’s cultural heritage and on the ways we can contribute to enhance its management. Our key suggestions to the Government are summarized in the tables below. We presented specifically two key short term proposals : – A candid assessment of Sarawak’s […]

Misc. Heritage News – Nov. 2016 to Feb. 2017

download pdf version SARAWAK What did we hear, see and learn on the Sarawak heritage scene in the last four months? Statements by the now Chief Minister and Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg, on several occasions provided an updated picture of the Government pipeline of projects touching on […]