Mobile And Immobile Heritage

Tangible And Intangible Heritage

Thomas Awoke (MSc)

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 Mobile Heritages
 Immobile Heritages
 Tangible Heritages
 Intangible Heritages
Tangible Heritage
Includes Immovable Or Moveable Historical And Manmade Cultural Heritage
Mobile/Movable Heritages
 Cultural Heritage not attached to the
foundation.
 Can be moved from place to place easily and
which are handed down from the past
generation.
Crowns of Kings of Ethiopia - National Museum,
Addis Ababa
 National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
 Crowns, treasures,
furniture that can
be found inside the
museums are some
examples of
movable heritages.
 You can access
some examples of
movable heritages
in Addis Ababa
museum and
Ethiopian National
museum.
Movable heritages displayed in museums
The Proclamation No 36/1989, it should take
account of the artistic value and of ethnographic
and paleontological objects.
 Moveable objects such as; works of art: sculptures,
paintings
Immobile/Immovable Heritage

 Cultural Heritage attached to the

ground with a foundation and
which can be moved only by
dismantling.
 All registered cultural heritages by
UNESCO are immovable heritages
 All registered natural heritages by
UNESCO are immovable heritages
 All registered architectural building
heritages by Ethiopian national and
regional culture and tourism office
are immovable heritages
Lower Valley of Awash-immovable Gonder castle in gonder city-immovable
Intangible Cultural Heritage
 Means any Cultural Heritage that cannot be felt
by hands but can be seen or heard and includes
different kinds of performances and show,
folklore, religious, belief, wedding and mourning
ceremonies, music, drama, literature and similar
other cultural values.
Intangible Heritage Therefore Includes
 A dizzying array of traditions,
 Music and dances such as tango and flamenco,
holy processions,
 Falconry,
 Viennese coffee house culture,
 The Azerbaijani carpet and its weaving traditions,
Chinese shadow puppetry,
 The Mediterranean diet,
 Vedic Chanting,
 Kabuki theatre,
 The polyphonic singing of the Aka of Central Africa
Meskel Festivity In Ethiopia
 Meskel, one of the
major Ethiopian
Orthodox festivals is
celebrated for two
days beginning
September 26th.

 Legend has it that in

the year 326, Queen
Helena (Empress
Helen) the Mother of
Constantine the
Great, discovered
the cross upon which
Christ was crucified.
Epiphany Festivity In Ethiopia
Epiphany Festivity In Ethiopia
Fiche Chamballala, New Year among the Sidama people

 Fiche Chamballala,
New Year among
the Sidama people,
has been registered
as Intangible
Cultural Heritage of
Humanity
by UNESCO.

 Inscribed in 2015 on
the Representative
List of the Intangible
Cultural Heritage of
Humanity
The Proclamation No. 229 of 1966

 It did not, extend to the protection of nature, including

the landscape and rare specimens of nature (living and
inanimate)
 Also omit/neglect Intangibles heritages
ASSIGNMENT-III
1. Try to illustrate and discuss some intangible heritages from Africa.
2. Try to illustrate and discuss some intangible heritages from European countries. Example like
music, dance etc.
3. Try to illustrate and discuss from tangible and non movable architectural heritages registered
by culture and tourism office in Addis Ababa and regional heritages site.
4. Try to illustrate and discuss from tangible and non movable architectural heritages registered
as a national heritage in European or Asian. Like wood architecture from Japanese.
5. Try to illustrate and discuss Irrecha, Ashenda and some other intangible heritages of Ethiopia.
6. Try to illustrate and discuss the deference between national and international (outstanding
universal value) heritages by mentioning criteria to be out standing and national heritages.
7. Try to illustrate and discuss the advantages of registering architectural heritages as national
heritage
8. Discuss and illustrate the use of museum according to collecting and displaying of movable
tangible heritages.

Expectations:
PPT presentation (the presentation should be brief and clear)
Pdf document in soft copy
Thanks For Listening!!!