Cultural Heritage and Its

Importance

Facilitated by:
Asst. Prof. Jennifer U. Garcia
What do you know about
Cultural Heritage?
TWO DIVISION OF HERITAGE
What is CULTURAL HERITAGE?
 includes artefacts, monuments, a group of buildings and sites, museums that
have a diversity of values including symbolic, historic, artistic, aesthetic,
ethnological or anthropological, scientific and social significance.

 It includes tangible heritage (movable, immobile and underwater), intangible

cultural heritage (ICH) embedded into cultural, and natural heritage artefacts,
sites or monuments.

Source:
https://uis.unesco.org/en/glossary-term/cultural-heritage
 It is an expression of the ways of living developed by a
community and passed on from generation to generation,
including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions
and values. Cultural Heritage is often expressed as either
Intangible or Tangible Cultural Heritage (ICOMOS, 2002).
 Cultural heritage is not only limited to material objects that we
can see and touch.

 It also consists of immaterial elements: traditions, oral history,

performing arts, social practices, traditional craftsmanship,
representations, rituals, knowledge and skills transmitted from
generation to generation within a community.
 Cultural heritage implies a shared bond, our belonging to a
community. It represents our history and our identity; our bond
to the past, to our present, and the future.
Source:

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/special-topics-art-history/arches-at-risk-cultural-heritage-education-series/arches-beginners-guide/a/
what-is-cultural-heritage?fbclid=IwAR0f8oO9KbEHvzYWXDJI2hOVLJavuuv5ccR-_yevVGJ6Vvv1pkOuCY0XezY
 It can provide an automatic sense of unity and belonging
within the group and allows us to better understand
generations and the history of where we come from.
INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
 it refers to those aspects of a country that cannot be touched
or seen.
 it includes a dizzying array of traditions, music, dances,
folklore, language, holy processions, carnivals, weaving
traditions, puppetry, diet, theatre, etc.
 traditional,
contemporary
Inclusive
and living at the
same time

Characteristics
:
Community
Representative
based
TANGIBLE HERITAGE
 refers to those significant places that advocate the
country’s history and culture.
 all the material traces such as monuments,
mosques, shrines, monasteries, archeological sites,
historical monuments, artifacts, and objects that are
significant to the community, nation or humanity.
Physical artifacts produced, maintained and
transmitted intergenerationally.
Cultural Heritage Types

Built Heritage

Natural Heritage

Artefacts
A. Built Heritage

Visible form of heritage (buildings, townscapes, archeological remains)

Historic buildings, artifacts, structures, areas, precints, aesthetic, architectural

With natural features such as

sacred groves, hills, hill rocks, water bodies, open
environmental significance and scenic areas wooded areas etc.
beauty
 B. Natural Heritage

 Includes all components which have

not created by man which are of
cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, biotic,
or ecological value and directly
usable resource value
 C. Artefacts

Something made or given

shape by man such as
tool or a work of art esp. An object recovered
an object of archeological
interest.
Understanding the Significance
of Cultural Heritage
 Historical Significance

• what is its age/relationship to

historical era, person or event
Four Main
Aspects
Social Significance

• social, spiritual and community

oriented values attributed to a
place
Four Main Aspects

Aesthetic significance Scientific significance

special sense of Importance of a place (designs scope or possibility of scientific findings from a
or architecture) site, monument or place
can be attributed to archeological sites or
ancient monuments
Assignment: FIELD WORK

1. Go and Explore: Ask and Explore around your community and list
down all the Intangible, Tangible and Types of Cultural heritage we
can find in the city. (As many as you can).

2. Think of the ways you can protect those cultural heritage you have
listed. Why do you think its important?

3. What is R.A 11961? What is its main features? How it can help
preserve our cultural heritage?