List of heritage registers

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This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-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.

International

Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Society for the Preservation of Afghan Cultural Heritage

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Angola: Património Histórico-Cultural Nacional

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina

Armenia

Armenia: State Heritage of National Register (Armenia)

Australia

Australia: Heritage registers in Australia

Federal registers
State and territory registers
State national trusts
Online database of all registers
  • The National Heritage Database is a searchable database which includes:[2]
    • places in the World Heritage List
    • places in the Australian National Heritage List
    • places in the Commonwealth National Heritage list
    • places in the Register of the National Estate (non-statutory archive)
    • places in the List of Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia
    • places under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists.

Austria

Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan: State Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage Samples of Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bahrain: Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities

Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Cultural Heritage of Bangladesh and National Heritage Foundation of Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bolivia: Bolivian cultural heritage

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia: List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as maintained by the KONS of Bosnia and Herzegovina;

State level

Local level (entities, district Brčko, cantonal, and regional)

  • Institute for the Protection of Monuments of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina [Zavod za zaštitu spomenika Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine][5]
  • Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republic of Srpska [Republic Institute for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Republic of Srpska][6]
  • Institute for the Protection of Monuments District Brčko [Zavod za zaštitu spomenika District Brčko] (Služba za turizam Vlade Brčko distrikta Bosne i Hercegovine)[7]
  • Cantonal Institute for the Protection of Cultural–Historical and Natural Heritage Sarajevo [Kantonalni zavod za zaštitu kulturno–historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa Sarajevo][8]
  • Public Institution Institute for the Protection and Use of Cultural–Historical and Natural Heritage of Tuzla Canton [JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno–historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa Tuzlanskog kantona][9][10]
  • Cantonal Institute for Urbanism, Spatial Planning and Protection of the Cultural and Historical Heritage of the Central Bosnian Canton [Kantonalni zavod za urbanizam, prostorno planiranje i zaštitu kulturno–historijskog naslijeđa Srednjobosanskog Kantona][11]
  • Institute for the Protection of Cultural and Historical Heritage of Herzegovina–Neretva Canton [Zavod za zaštitu kulturno–historijske baštine Hercegovačko–Neretvanskog Kantona][12]
  • Public Institution Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Bihać – Una-Sana Canton [JU Zavod za zaštitu kulturnog naslijeđa Bihać – Unsko–Sanski Kanton][13]
  • Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Zenica–Doboj Canton [Zavod za zaštitu kulturne baštine Zeničko–dobojskog kantona][14][15]
  • Public Institution Agency for cultural–historical and natural heritage and development of the tourist potential of the city of Jajce [JU Agencija za kulturno–povijesnu i prirodnu baštinu i razvoj turističkih potencijala grada Jajca][16]

Botswana

Brazil

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Cambodia: Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

Cameroon

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.[18]

Federal
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".[19] Historic designation in Alberta is governed by the Historic Resources Act.[20] 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.[21] The Alberta Main Street Program helps to preserve historic buildings in the downtowns of smaller communities.[22] The Heritage Survey Program is a survey of 80,000 historic buildings in Alberta, with no protective status.[23]
  • British Columbia
    • Historic sites in British Columbia may be added to that province's register of historic places under section 18 of the Heritage Conservation Act.[24]
  • 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)[25]
  • Newfoundland
  • Ontario
  • Quebec
Local

Chile

Chile: National Monuments of Chile, as maintained by the Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales[28]

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.[29] In the near future, it is going to issue the sixth batch which includes 51 historic houses.

Harbin

Colombia

Comoros

Comoros: National Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Comoros)

Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo: Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Republic of the Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Cuba: Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural[30]

Cyprus

Cyprus: Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus

Czech Republic

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo: National Inventory of the Cultural Heritage of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Denmark

Denmark: National Register of Sites and Monuments, as maintained by the Danish Agency for Culture[32]

Djibouti

Djibouti: List of monuments of Djibouti

Dominica

Dominica: Dominica Cultural Division

Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic: Cultural heritage sites in the Dominican Republic

East Timor

East Timor: Intangible Cultural Heritage of East Timor

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

El Salvador: Cultural heritage sites in El Salvador

Estonia

Estonia: National Registry of Cultural Monuments, maintained by the National Heritage Board of Estonia [ee].[33] It has been described as one of the most successful and more complete heritage registers.[34]

  • Estonian inventory of intangible cultural heritage, maintained by the Estonian Folk Culture Centre.[35]

Eswatini

Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Ethio-SPaRe: Cultural Heritage of Christian Ethiopia

Fiji

Fiji: National Trust of Fiji and National Sites and Places of Heritage Significance

Finland

Finland: There are two registers confirmed at the state level:

France

Gabon

Gabon: List of monuments of Gabon

Gambia

Gambia: HerMaP Gambia

Georgia

Georgia: The National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia is a government agency responsible for preservation, protection, research and promotion of cultural heritage of the country. The Agency maintains three registers of Georgia's cultural heritage:[40]

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.[41]

Ghana

Greece

Grenada

Grenada: Grenada National Trust

Guam

Guam: Chamorro heritage sites (Guam)

Guatemala

Guatemala: Historical monuments of Guatemala

Guinea

Guinea: List of monuments of Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau: List of monuments of Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Haiti: (in French) Culture et Patrimoine, as maintained by the Gouverment d'Haïti

  • National Register of Cultural Heritage (Haiti)

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Hungary: The Forster Gyula Nemzeti Örökségvédelmi és Vagyongazdálkodási Központ was an organization which facilitates public awareness and protection of heritage sites listed up to 2016.12.31. (There are partial list from 8 county of Hungary). From 2017.01.01. the cultural heritage management is in the competence the Prime Minister's Office and the Hungarian Academy of Arts.

  • Műemlékem is a non official list maintained by a non-governmental organization.

Iceland

Iceland: Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland

India

India: National Archives of India, a government agency run by Ministry of Culture

National level
State level

Indonesia

Iran

Iran: Iran National Heritage List is a register of nationally significant monuments, places, buildings, archaeological sites, events, etc., officially registered under the National Heritage Preservation Act of 1930. According to Article 1 of this law, "All the industrial monuments and buildings that were built up to the end of the Zand dynasty in the country of Iran, including movable and immovable in accordance with Article 13 of this law, can be considered as national heritage of Iran and under the protection and supervision of the state."

Iraq

Iraq: Iraq Heritage

Ireland

Ireland: In the Republic of Ireland, some registers are maintained by sections of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (The National Monuments Service, Archaeological Survey of Ireland, and National Inventory of Architectural Heritage). Others are maintained by the local authority for the county, city, or city and county where the monument or building is sited.

More information Name, Type ...
Name Type Maintenance
National monument "a monument or the remains of a monument the preservation of which is a matter of national importance by reason of the historical, architectural, traditional, artistic, or archaeological interest attaching thereto"[43] Owned or managed by the National Monuments Service. The Service's own list of monuments is not definitive.[44]
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage "all—
(a) structures and buildings together with their settings and attendant grounds, fixtures and fittings,
(b) groups of such structures and buildings, and
(c) sites,
which are of architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"[45]
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The NIAH's survey is not yet complete.[46]
protected structure "structures, or parts of structures, which form part of the architectural heritage and which are of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest"[47] Relevant planning authority maintains a list as part of its development plan.[48]
architectural conservation area "a place, area, group of structures or townscape, taking account of building lines and heights, that—
(a) is of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical interest or value, or
(b) contributes to the appreciation of protected structures"[47]
Planning authority
special planning control area "an architectural conservation area [...] of special importance to, or as respects, the civic life or the architectural, historical, cultural or social character of a city or town in which it is situated"[47] Planning authority
area of special amenity "by reason of—
(a) its outstanding natural beauty, or
(b) its special recreational value,
and having regard to any benefits for nature conservation"[47]
Planning authority
Database of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes Gardens marked on the first- or second-edition (1850–95) maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.[49] National Inventory of Architectural Heritage[50]
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Israel

Italy

Italy: Catalogo Generale dei Beni Culturali[51] under creation; catalogo regionale dei beni culturali already maintained by each region:

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: Cultural Heritage (Kazakhstan)

Kenya

Kiribati

Kiribati: Cultural Heritage of Kiribati

Korea (North)

Korea (South)

Kosovo

Kuwait

Kuwait: National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature

  • List of monuments of Kuwait

Laos

Laos: Cultural Heritage Management (Laos)

Latvia

Latvia: "The list of State protected cultural monuments", available at .[57] Contains information about 7371 monuments of culture (As of March 2021). The list is maintained by State Inspection for Heritage Protection, a government agency.[58]

Full list is available at valsts aizsargājamo kultūras pieminekļu saraksts (in Latvian).

Lebanon

Lesotho

Lesotho: Lesotho Heritage Network

Liberia

Liberia: Heritage Liberia

Libya

Libya: Heritage Gazetteer of Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

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.

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

Madagascar

Malaysia

Malaysia: National Heritage Register (Malaysia)

Malta

Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands: Cultural Heritage Legislation in the Marshall Islands

Martinique

Martinique: Cultural heritage of Martinique

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mauritius: Ministry of Arts and Cultural Heritage (Mauritius)

Mexico

Moldova

Moldova: National Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Moldova)

Mongolia

Mongolia: Cultural Heritage Program (Mongolia)

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Myanmar:

Namibia

Nauru

Nauru: Nauru National Heritage Register

Nepal

Netherlands

Netherlands: List of Rijksmonuments (Monumentenregister van de Rijksdienst voor het cultureel erfgoed)[63]

New Caledonia

New Caledonia: Patrimoine natural et culturel de la Nouvelle-Caledonia.

New Zealand

New Zealand Rarangi Taonga:[64] The Register of Historic Places, Historic Areas, Wahi Tapu and Wahi Tapu Areas (administered by New Zealand Historic Places Trust.)

Nicaragua

Nicaragua: List of monuments of Nicaragua

Niger

Niger: Niger Heritage

Nigeria

Nigeria: National Cultural Policy (Nigeria)

North Macedonia

Norway

Norway: (in Norwegian) Lister over kulturminner i Norge; Immateriell kulturarv; Norway Heritage Community; Cultural Heritage Act

Pakistan

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

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

Palau

Palau: Bureau of Cultural and Historic Preservation, as maintained by Title 19, Chapter 1 of the Palau National Code

Palestine

Palestine: Palestinian Heritage Foundation

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea: National Cultural Commission (Papua New Guinea)

Paraguay

Paraguay: El Inventario Nacional de Bienes Culturales, under creation by the Dirección de Catalogación del Patrimonio Cultural[65]

Peru

Peru: Patrimonio Cultural de la Nación (Perú)

Philippines

Poland

Poland: A list of objects of cultural heritage in Poland (zabytki) is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Poland. 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).[66]

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: (in Spanish) Patrimonio Histórico Edificado, as maintained by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña) which functions as the territory State Historic Preservation Office, in association to the United States National Register of Historic Places.[67] The Puerto Rico Planning Board also maintains the Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas).[68]

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis: St. Christopher National Trust

Saint Lucia

Samoa

Samoa:

  • Documentation of Samoan Archaeological and Built Heritage Places and Associated Oral Traditions
  • National Heritage Board (Samoa)

San Marino

San Marino: Institute for the Conservation and Valorization of Cultural Heritage

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: National Antiquities Register, as maintained by the Heritage Commission.

Senegal

Senegal: Sites et Monuments historiques;[69] (in French) Liste des monuments et sites historiques au Sénégal

  • La Direction du Patrimoine Culturel (Senegal)

Serbia

Seychelles

Seychelles: Seychelles Heritage Foundation

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: National Monuments of Sierra Leone, as maintained by the Ancient Monuments and Relics Commission[70]

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Slovenia: Register of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia; (in Slovenia) Register kulturne dediščine Slovenije

The register consists of three parts:

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands: Protected Areas Act (Solomon Islands) and Culture Division (Solomon Islands)

Somalia

Somalia: Cultural Heritage Database (Somalia)

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Archaeological Heritage Management (Sri Lanka)

Sudan

Sudan: Digital Cultural Heritage Register (Sudan)

Suriname

Suriname: Suriname Heritage Guide

Sweden

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).

Syria

Syria: Syrian Heritage Initiative

Taiwan

Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

Tonga

Tonga: Tonga Heritage Society

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

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

Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan: National Register of Cultural Heritage Sites (Turkmenistan)

Tuvalu

Tuvalu: Tuvalu National Cultural Policy

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates: Cultural heritage of the United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

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 records (HERs) and sites and monuments records (SMRs), maintained usually at a local government level (archaeological trusts in Wales).

Other Associated States or Territories

Although not part of the United Kingdom itself, these are self-governing states or territories with strong ties to the British Crown or the United Kingdom, often putting defence and foreign relations in to their hands while handling all other matters internally. All have the British Monarch as their head of state.

Crown Dependencies

The Crown Dependencies are three states which are possessions of the Crown, geographically in the British Isles or the Channel Islands.

Overseas Territories

The British Overseas Territories (also known as the "United Kingdom Overseas Territories") are the last remnants of the British Empire. There are fourteen total, however, not all of these have heritage registers.

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
State-level and local-level

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan: List of monuments of Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Vanuatu: Vanuatu National Heritage Registry

Venezuela

Venezuela: Inventario de monumentos, as maintained by the Instituto de Patrimonio Cultural[81]

Vietnam

Yemen

Yemen: Ancient Yemen Digital Atlas

Zambia

Zimbabwe

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