List of heritage registers

There are a number of heritage registers around the world, which keep lists of natural or man-made objects deemed to be of heritage value. Many of them are kept by local government agencies, but also national lists by type of National Heritage Site may be kept. Most countries keep more than one register, depending on the type of site and its location such as natural wonders, castles and other architectural objects, feats of engineering such as canals, railways and so forth.

Global

• UNESCO World Heritage Site
• International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

Albania

Albania National Heritage Sites of a religious nature are protected via the List of Religious Cultural Monuments of Albania

Argentina

• Argentina National Historic Monuments of Argentina

Australia

• Australia National Heritage List
• Commonwealth Heritage List
• The Register of the National Estate
  • ACT Heritage Register
  • Northern Territory Heritage Register
  • NSW State Heritage Register
  • Queensland Heritage Register
  • South Australian Heritage Register
  • Tasmanian Heritage Register
  • Victorian Heritage Register
  • Western Australian Register of Heritage Places

Austria

• Austria Denkmalverzeichnis

Belgium

• Belgium National Heritage Sites are called "Beschermd erfgoed" in Flanders and "Biens classés" in Wallonia, and "Denkmal" in the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

Flanders

• List Inventaris van het Bouwkundig Erfgoed of the Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed
• Database of beschermd erfgoed

Brussels Region

• Register of beschermd erfgoed of the Brussels Region
• Inventory list of erfgoed

Wallonia

• List of biens classés in the region of Wallonia

Burma

Burma

Yangon

• 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

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

• New Brunswick New Brunswick Register of Historic Places

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Newfoundland Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador designated properties

Ontario

• Ontario Properties designated under the Ontario Heritage Act

Quebec

• Quebec Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec

Local

• Heritage buildings of Vancouver
• Register of Historic Resources in Edmonton

Chile

Chile Monumentos Nacionales or Bienes Patrimoniales (National Monuments of Chile) are listed centrally by the conservation society Consejo de Monumentos Nacionales (CMN). website

China

China

Hangzhou

Declared historic buildings 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 historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of second batch of historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of third batch of historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fourth batch of historic buildings in Hangzhou
• List of fifth batch of 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

Croatia

• Croatia Register of Protected Natural Values of the Republic of Croatia
• Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia

Cuba

• Cuba Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural

Denmark

• DenmarkKulturarvsstyrelsen

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

Ireland

Ireland In the Republic of Ireland, some registers are maintained by sections of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (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.

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"	Owned or managed by the National Monuments Service. The Service's own list of monuments is not definitive.
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"	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. The NIAH's survey is not yet complete.
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"	Relevant planning authority maintains a list as part of its development plan.
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"	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"	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"	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.	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

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
• National Treasures of Japan

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

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.

Portugal

• Portugal National Heritage sites are listed under Monuments of 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 of immovable properties contains around 140,000 historical sites
• Russian state code of particularly valuable objects of cultural heritage includes the most conspicuous man-made landmarks as well as operating institutions: museums, archives, theatres, universities and academies.

Serbia

• Serbia

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

The register is divided into twelve categories:

Exceptional Importance	Great Importance	Protected
Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance	Archaeological Sites of Great Importance	Protected Archaeological Sites
Monuments of Culture of Exceptional Importance	Monuments of Culture of Great Importance	Protected Monuments of Culture
Historic Landmarks of Exceptional Importance	Historic Landmarks of Great Importance	Protected Historic Landmarks
Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Exceptional Importance	Spatial Cultural-Historical Units of Great Importance	Protected Spatial Cultural-Historical Units

Singapore

• Singapore National Monuments of Singapore

Slovakia

• SlovakiaSlovak National Monument Board

South Africa

• South AfricaSouth African Heritage Resource Agency

Spain

• Spain Monument (Spain) (Monumento histórico or Bien de Interés Cultural)
  • List of Bienes de Interés Cultural

Sweden

• Sweden Kulturminne (Kulturhistoriskt minnesmärke)
  • Listed buildings in Sweden (Byggnadsminne)
  • Fornminne

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 of Switzerland.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Main articles: Listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monuments

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
  • National Monuments Record (England)
  • Register of Parks and Gardens
  • 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) - archive formerly known as the Scottish National Buildings Record
    • CANMORE - database that is part of the NMRS
• Wales: Cadw, an agency of the Welsh Assembly Government

United States

National

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

Alabama

• Alabama Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage

California

• California California Historical Landmarks
• California Register of Historical Resources
• California Points of Historical Interest
• Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments

Illinois

• Illinois Chicago Landmarks

Michigan

• Michigan Michigan Historic Sites

Mississippi

• Mississippi Mississippi Landmarks

New York

• New YorkTown of Oyster Bay Landmarks

Washington

• Washington Washington State Heritage Register

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External links

• Website of the Antiquities and Monuments Office of Hong Kong