Congratulations to our AusHertiage Director and Federation University’s Professor Keir Reeves on being awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2026 King’s Birthday Honours for services to regional higher education. Keir has dedicated his career to exploring the role of history, heritage and place in shaping regional communities, while championing access to higher education for students…
Officially established in March 2019, the UNESCO Chair on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Comparative Law is located in the Department of Digital Law and Society at Sapienza University of Rome Unitelma. The Chair works in the fields of comparative public law, international law, and cultural anthropology, and represents a step in a decade-long commitment by the University to the 2003 UNESCO Convention for…
Join the free virtual UN workshop to explore initiatives + best practices of Pacific Indigenous cultural preservation, and language revitalisation! When: Wednesday May 27 at 4 PM AEST The Pacific region is recognised for its extraordinary linguistic diversity, yet many of its languages are being endangered due to globalisation, migration, and limited intergenerational transmission. Young people, who form a significant demographic in…
Public consultation for Australia’s next National Cultural Policy closed in May 2026. The process gathered feedback from the creative and heritage sector and the public to guide government arts and culture support. Read AusHeritage's submission below. AusHeritage Submission to new NCP 22 May 2026Download
An exclusive public lecture with Ven. Geshe Lhakdor, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA). The Australia India Institute is pleased to host a lecture with Ven. Geshe Lhakdor, Director of the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA) in Dharamshala, India; one of the world’s leading institutions dedicated to preserving Tibetan language, culture, manuscripts, and intellectual…
Researchers from Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation, at the Grimwade Centre, have been awarded the 2025 Global Award for World Heritage Education Innovative Case (AWHEIC) by UNESCO. The award recognises the Institute’s project From Ashes to Stories: Innovative Heritage Education and Post-Fire Conservation at the See Yup Temple. Led by the See Yup Society President Michael LAM, Associate Professor Nicole…
by Yolande Knell, Jerusalem. Unesco has verified damage to 145 religious, historic and cultural sites in Gaza since 7 October 2023, when Hamas-led attacks on Israel triggered the war. It has largely used assessments from satellite imagery. Local groups which have carried out ground surveys put the level of damage far higher. Read the BCC article online https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c157n1g977go
AusHeritage Board member Heather Brown presented sessions at a landmark international conference on Indian manuscripts held in Delhi on 11 – 13 September 2025. India possesses one of the world’s richest and largest collections of ancient manuscripts. These manuscripts contain thousands of years of ancient knowledge spanning subjects that include philosophy, science, medicine, literature, Vedic rituals, mathematics, and the arts. …
Host Vickram Bahl explores with Vinod Daniel, Chairman of AusHeritage and museum industry leader, what is likely to happen to these very important landmarks of many global cities. Will everything go online with augmented and virtual reality or are we likely to see an evolution where museums not just survive but thrive? Vickram Bahl is the founder and currently the Editor-At-Large…
The tradition of Bhutanese organic dyeing is gradually disappearing. But master dyer, Kencho Dekar, is working with the Robert Cripps Institute for Cultural Conservation at the University of Melbourne to preserve the vibrant colours and stories in Bhutanese textiles. The Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan has received a donation of an eight-foot Medicine Buddha (Sangye Menla) thangka painting, created entirely…