List of heritage registers

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This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many instances the pages linked below have as their primary focus the registered assets rather than the registers themselves. Where a particular article or set of articles on a foreign-language Wikipedia provides fuller coverage, a link is provided.

Global

United Nations

World Heritage Sites (see Lists of World Heritage Sites) – UNESCO, advised by the International Council on Monuments and Sites

Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) – Food and Agriculture Organization

Albania

Albania: List of Religious Cultural Monuments of Albania

National Centre of Cultural Property Inventory

Andorra

Andorra: Bé d'interès cultural, as maintained by Patrimoni Cultural = Cultural Heritage of Andorra; (Catalan) Llista de monuments d'Andorra

Argentina

Argentina: National Historic Monuments of Argentina; (French) Monument historique national (Argentine)

Australia

Australia:

Australian National Heritage List

Commonwealth National Heritage List

State Register of Heritage Places (Western Australia)

Heritage registers in Australia

Austria

Austria: Denkmalgeschütztes Objekt, as maintained by the Bundesdenkmalamt

Belarus

Belarus: Cultural Properties of Belarus

Belgium

Belgium: National Heritage Site (Belgium); (Dutch) Lijsten van cultureel erfgoed

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia: List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as maintained by the Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

Brazil

Brazil: List of National Historic Heritage of Brazil, as maintained by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage; (Portuguese) Listas de patrimônio do Brasil

Burma

Burma: Yangon City Heritage List

Canada

Canada The Canadian Register of Historic Places, while it confers no historic designation or protection itself, endeavours to list all federal, provincial, territorial and local sites.

Federal

National Historic Sites of Canada

Provincial

Alberta

Sites owned and run by the provincial government as a functioning historic site or museum are known as Provincial Historic Sites and Provincial Historic Areas. Buildings and sites owned by private citizens and companies or other levels or branches of government may gain one of two levels of historic designation, "Registered Historic Resource" or "Provincial Historic Resource". Historic designation in Alberta is governed by the Historic Resources Act. The province also lists buildings deemed historically significant by municipal governments on the Alberta Register of Historic Places, which is also part of the larger Canadian Register of Historic Places although this does not imply provincial or federal government status or protection. The Alberta Main Street Program helps to preserve historic buildings in the downtowns of smaller communities. The Heritage Survey Program is a survey of 80,000 historic buildings in Alberta, with no protective status.

New Brunswick

Places and areas designated under the Heritage Conservation Act (the New Brunswick Register of Historic Places acts as a register of sites designated under the Act)

Newfoundland

Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador designated properties

Ontario

Properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act

Quebec

Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec

Local

Heritage buildings of Vancouver

City of Toronto Heritage Property Inventory

Chile

Chile: National Monuments of Chile, as maintained by the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales

China

China: Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level (全国重点文物保护单位), designated by State Administration of Cultural Heritage

Hangzhou

Sites Protected at the City Level of Hangzhou are districts, artifacts or buildings legally declared to be "protected". According to the "Regularations of historic districts and historic buildings in Hangzhou" effectivated from 1 January 2005, historic buildings are those artifacts or districts that have lasted more than 50 years, and of significant values for history, science, and art study. In Hangzhou, declaring a historic house requires consulting the urban planning administration bureau, and the real estate administration bureau.

As of 31 June 2011, there are 287 declared historic houses in Hangzhou, proclaimed as 5 batches. In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses.

List of first batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

List of second batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

List of third batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

List of fourth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

List of fifth batch of declared historic buildings in Hangzhou

Harbin

Harbin Urban and Rural Planning Bureau

Preserved Buildings

Hong Kong

Declared monuments of Hong Kong

List of Grade I historic buildings in Hong Kong

List of Grade II historic buildings in Hong Kong

List of Grade III historic buildings in Hong Kong

Colombia

Colombia: National Monuments of Colombia; (Spanish) Monumentos Nacionales de Colombia

Croatia

Croatia Register of Protected Natural Values of the Republic of Croatia

Cuba

Cuba Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural

Czech Republic

Czech: (Czech) Seznam národních kulturních památek České republiky, (German) Liste der Nationalen Kulturdenkmale Tschechiens, as featuring on MonumNet

Denmark

Denmark: National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture

Estonia

Estonia: National Registry of Cultural Monuments. It is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Estonia.

It has been described as one of the most successful and more complete heritage registers.

France

France Monument historique

Mérimée List

List of historic monuments of 1840. See Liste des monuments historiques de 1840, at Fr. Wikipedia

Germany

Germany: The Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz is an organization which facilitates public awareness and protection of heritage sites listed. These lists are kept on the website denkmalliste.org, which has all German heritage registers ("Denkmallisten") gathered together in one portal.

Kulturdenkmal

Bayerische Denkmalliste

Indonesia

Indonesia: Cultural Properties of Indonesia

India

India: National Archives of India

India: List of World Heritage Sites in India

India: List of Monuments of National Importance in India

India: List of Bollywood films

Ireland

Ireland: In the Republic of Ireland, some registers are maintained by sections of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (The National Monuments Service and National Inventory of Architectural Heritage). Others are maintained by the "planning authority": the local council for the county, city, borough, or town where the monument or building is sited.

Italy

Italy: Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali under creation; catalogo regionale dei beni culturali already maintained by each region:

Emilia-Romagna: WebGIS del patrimonio culturale dell'Emilia Romagna

Lombardy: Sistema Informativo dei Beni Culturali della Regione Lombardia (SIRBeC)

Jamaica

Jamaica Jamaica National Heritage Trust, established in 1958. The organisation maintains a list of National Heritage Sites in Jamaica.

Japan

Japan: Cultural Properties of Japan, as maintained by the Agency for Cultural Affairs; see also National Treasures of Japan

Korea (North)

North Korea: National Treasures of North Korea, Cultural assets of North Korea

Korea (South)

South Korea: National Treasures of South Korea, Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Korea, as maintained by Cultural Heritage Administration

Latvia

"The list of state protected monuments of culture", available at [1]. Contains information about 7131 monuments of culture (March 2012). The list is maintained by State Inspection for Heritage Inspection, a Government agency.

Luxembourg

"Buildings and objects classified as national monuments or listed on supplementary inventory".

The list is maintained by Service des sites et monuments nationaux, a Government agency. The latest version is available here [2].

See Lëscht vun de klasséierte Monumenter on lb-wiki and commons:Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Luxembourg

Macedonia (Republic of)

Macedonia: (French) Patrimoine culturel de la République de Macédoine

Malta

Malta: National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands

Mexico

Mexico: National Monuments of Mexico

Morocco

Morocco: Historic Monuments and Sites of Morocco

Mozambique

Mozambique: Cultural Properties of Mozambique

Namibia

Namibia: National Monuments, as maintained by the National Heritage Council of Namibia; (German) Liste der Nationalen Denkmäler in Namibia

Netherlands

Netherlands List of Rijksmonuments (Monumentenregister van de Rijksdienst voor het cultureel erfgoed)

New Zealand

New Zealand Rarangi Taonga: The Register of Historic Places, Historic Areas, Wahi Tapu and Wahi Tapu Areas (administered by New Zealand Historic Places Trust.)

Pakistan

Pakistan There are several organizations that take care of historic and heritage sites in Pakistan.

Department of Archaeology and Museums (Ministry of Heritage and National Integration (Pakistan))
National Archives of Pakistan
Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, Sindh
1. Sindh Building Control Authority
Directorate General of Archaeology, Punjab
Directorate of Archaeology & Museums, of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Directorate General of Archaeology, Balochistan
List of cultural heritage sites in Pakistan

Paraguay

Paraguay: El Inventario Nacional de Bienes Culturales, under creation by the Dirección de Catalogación del Patrimonio Cultural

Philippines

Philippines: Cultural Properties of the Philippines

Poland

Poland: A list of objects of cultural heritage in Poland (zabytki) is maintained by the Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa. It is primarily composed of objects in the register of objects of cultural heritage (rejestr zabytków), objects with the status of Historical Monument (pomnik historii), objects classified as a cultural park (park kulturowy).

Portugal

Portugal: National Monuments, as maintained by IGESPAR; (Portuguese) Lista de património edificado em Portugal

Romania

Romania National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania – The list, created in 2004–2005, contains historical monuments entered in the National Cultural Heritage of Romania. It is maintained by the Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments, part of the Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony in Romania.

Russia

Russia: Russian cultural heritage register; (Russian) Списки объектов культурного наследия России; Historical Cities of Russia

Senegal

Senegal: Sites et Monuments historiques; (French) Liste des monuments et sites historiques au Sénégal

Serbia

Cultural Heritage of Serbia (see also: World Heritage Sites in Serbia)

The register is divided into twelve categories:

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: National Monuments of Sierra Leone, as maintained by the Ancient Monuments and Relics Commission

Singapore

Singapore National Monuments of Singapore

Slovakia

Slovakia: Cultural Heritage Monuments of Slovakia; (German) Liste (Kulturdenkmale in der Slowakei)

South Africa

South Africa South African Heritage Resources Agency

List of heritage sites in South Africa

Spain

Spain Monument (Spain) (Monumento histórico or Bien de Interés Cultural)

Lists of Bienes de Interés Cultural

Swaziland

Swaziland: National Monuments of Swaziland, as maintained by the Swaziland National Trust Commission

Sweden

Sweden: Listed buildings in Sweden, as maintained by the Swedish National Heritage Board; see also (Swedish) Kulturmärkning i Sverige

Switzerland

Switzerland Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property (German: Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter, French: Inventaire suisse des biens culturels). National register of some 8,300 objects of international, national, regional and local significance. Managed by the Federal Office for Civil Protection (see its website).

There are also cantonal registers of cultural heritage sites.

See also Category:Heritage registers in Switzerland.

Turkey

Turkey Immovable Cultural and Natural Properties (Turkish: Korunması Gerekli Taşınmaz Kültür ve Tabiat Varlıkları (see [3])

Ukraine

Ukraine State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine

United Kingdom

Heritage, culture, planning and conservation are devolved issues in the United Kingdom, and are dealt with by the governments of the constituent countries. England, which does not have its own devolved government, is covered by an agency of the United Kingdom government. See also Historic Environment Record (HERs) and Sites and Monuments Record (SMRs) maintained usually at a local government level (Archaeological Trusts in Wales).

The Schedule of Ancient Monuments (follows on pre-devolution 1979 Act of Parliament)

England: English Heritage, an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport

The National Heritage List for England (launched May 2011). Contains list of all scheduled monuments, listed buildings, registered parks and gardens, historic wrecks and registered historic battlefields in England

English Heritage Archive: formerly the National Monuments Record (England)

Registered Battlefields (UK)

Protection of Wrecks Act 1973

Heritage at Risk

Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Environment Agency, an executive agency within the Department of the Environment

Scotland:

Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Executive Education Department

Inventory of Historic Battlefields

Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) – executive non-departmental public body

National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS): the archive formerly known as the Scottish National Buildings Record

CANMORE: a database that is part of the NMRS

Wales:

Cadw, an agency of the Welsh Assembly Government

Scheduled Monuments in Wales

Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, a Welsh Government sponsored body

National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW)

Coflein: the online database for the NMRW

United States

In the United States, a site is only listed on the National Register of Historic Places on recommendation from the state historic preservation offices in the relevant state.

Some states maintain their own state-level historic registers, although in some U.S. states all properties on the state register duplicate the National Register listing.

The National Register listing in itself confers no protection to a historic property but may qualify the site for matching grants for historic restoration.

Local historic designations in many municipalities provide some limited protection against demolition of historic landmarks.

National

United States National Monuments are a separate register from the National Register of Historic Places

National Historic Landmarks

National Natural Landmarks

State-level and local-level

Alabama

Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage

California

California Historical Landmarks

California Register of Historical Resources

California Points of Historical Interest

List of Berkeley Landmarks, Structures of Merit, and Historic Districts

Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments

San Francisco Designated Landmarks

Georgia (U.S. state)

List of historic buildings and districts designated by the City of Atlanta

Illinois

Chicago Landmarks

Michigan

Michigan Historic Sites

Mississippi

Mississippi Landmarks

New York

Town of Oyster Bay Landmarks

New York City Landmarks (designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission)

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia Register of Historic Places

List of City of Pittsburgh historic designations

Virginia

Virginia Historic Landmarks Register

Washington

Washington State Heritage Register

Venezuela

Venezuela: Inventario de monumentos, as maintained by the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural

Zambia

Zambia: Monuments and Historic Sites of Zambia

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe: National Monuments of Zimbabwe

References

List of heritage registers Wikipedia

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