Heritage

Heritage may refer to:

History and society

• History, "heritage" refers to events or processes that have a special meaning in group memory
• National heritage site, a site having a value that has been registered by a governmental agency as being of national importance to the history of that nation
• Historic site an official location where pieces of political, military, cultural, or social history have been preserved due to their historical importance
• Cultural heritage, the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society: man-made heritage
  • World Heritage Site, as certified by UNESCO
  • List of destroyed heritage, The strike sites that have been destroyed
  • Food heritage
  • Heritage language
  • Industrial heritage, monuments from industrial culture
• Heritage fleet, historic vehicles or vessels
  • Amtrak Heritage vehicles, original rolling stock afforded to Amtrak at its inception
  • Sydney Heritage Fleet, Sailing vessel fleet and museum
  • Union Pacific Heritage Fleet, historically restored locomotives of the Union Pacific Railway
• Natural heritage, an inheritance of fauna and flora, geology, landscape and land forms, and other natural resources in a specific geographical area
• Virtual Heritage, an ICT work dealing with cultural heritage
• Inheritance of physical goods after the death of an individual; of the physical or non-physical things inherited
• Heritage science, cross-disciplinary scientific research of cultural heritage
• Heritage studies, interdisciplinary field paying particular attention to tangible heritage of societies.

Biology

• Heredity, biological inheritance of physical characteristics
• Kinship, the relationship between entities that share a genealogical origin

Arts and media

Music

• Heritage (Earth, Wind & Fire album), 1990
• Heritage (Eddie Henderson album), 1976
• Heritage (Opeth album), 2011, and the title song
• Heritage Records (Australia), a 1960s Australian record label
• Heritage (Earth, Wind & Fire song), a 1990 song by Earth, Wind & Fire

Other uses in arts and media

• Heritage (1935 film), a 1935 Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel
• Heritage (1984 film), a 1984 Slovenian film directed by Matjaž Klopčič
• Heritage (2019 film), a 2019 Cameroonian film by Yolande Welimoum
• Godzilla: Heritage, or simply Heritage, a fan film based on the Godzilla franchise
• Heritage (novel), a Doctor Who novel
• Oliver Heritage Magazine, an American magazine for tractor collectors

Organizations

For media companies, see § Arts and media.

Political parties

• Heritage (Armenia), a liberal political party in Armenia
• Heritage Party (Zambia), a political party in Zambia

Schools

• Heritage Academy (disambiguation)
• Heritage Christian University
• Heritage College (disambiguation)
• Heritage School (disambiguation)
• Heritage High School (disambiguation)
• Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata
• American Heritage School (disambiguation)
• Christian Heritage School (disambiguation)

Other organizations

• Heritage Auctions, an auction House in Dallas
• The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank located in Washington, DC, US
• Heritage Guitars, a boutique guitar manufacturer, separated from Gibson
• Heritage New Hampshire, a museum companion to the New Hampshire theme park Story Land
• Heritage Vineyards, a winery in New Jersey
• Héritage, a defunct supermarket retailer based in Quebec, Canada

Other uses

• Heritage Day (disambiguation)
• RBC Heritage, Hilton Head, SC golf tournament

People with the surname

• John Heritage, (born 1956), American sociologist
• Peter Heritage (born 1960), English footballer
• Steve Heritage, member of the American grindcore band Assück

See also

• List of heritage registers
• The Heritage (disambiguation)
• World Heritage Site
• English Heritage
• The Heritage Foundation
• Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Heritage tourism
• Heritage Foods
• Heritage Great Britain PLC