Tag Archives: Textiles

‘Spotlight on Sarawak’ web talks by Badan Warisan Malaysia now available for upload on YouTube

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 […]

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: SARAWAK – May-June-July 2016

    Heritage portfolio in the new Sarawak State Government – A new State cabinet (8 Ministers and 18 Assistant Ministers) was appointed shortly after the May election. Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Haji Abdul Rahman Zohari Bin Tun Abang Haji Openg is Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture and Minister of Housing and […]

Misc. Heritage News – February 2016

  SARAWAK Community street art –  The public was invited to contribute to a mural painting in Kai Joo lane, Kuching on Feb. 3. It was a Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) initiative, part of the ‘Kuching Clean, Beautiful and Safe’ (CBS) project, in collaboration with For Art (F’Art), an Australian non-profit. Source: “Opportunity to […]

Traditional textiles exhibition @ Sarawak Textile Museum – until April 2015

The “Pameram Wastra Borneo” shows traditional textiles from the region. It is a joint initiative by 8 museums from the region : Sarawak Museum, Sabah Museum, Brunei Museum, West Kalimantan Museum, Kapuas Raya Sintang Museum (West Kalimantan), East Kalimantan Museum, South Kalimantan Museum and Central Kalimantan Museum. From 21 October 2012 to 21 April 2015 […]