
Our heritage is inherited from the past. It can be natural heritage, such as landscapes and other natural resources. Heritage is traditions and customs passed on in history. Heritage also includes artifacts, architecture, and technology, all tangible cultural heritage. A person’s heritage is irreplaceable and unique. The following resources provide collections of different cultures throughout history.
> Archaeological Sites and Collections
- All Regions: Archaeological sites by region.
- Archaeology Page: Images of archaeology sites from around the world.
- Regional Views: Report, images and archaeological data of all the regions.
- Archaeology and Ethnology Collections: A collection of over 420,000 catalogs records representing different world cultures.
- Southeast Asia: A collection of Southeast Asian skeletal archaeological sites.
- Greater Southwest: over 127,000 item documenting North America, South America and the Old World cultures.
- Major Collections: A collection of various cultural archaeological materials.
- Mesopotamia: Photographs of Mesopotamia archaeological sites.
- Art & Archaeology: Choose a region to view Greek and Roman art and archaeology.
- Mesoamerica: A collection of Mesoamerica archaeological sites.
- Prehistoric and Historic Artifacts: North American archaeological collections mainly Iowa.
> Architecture and the Built Environment
- India: A comprehensive look at the architecture of India.
- Culture and Space: An in-depth resource covering the impact cultures have on architecture.
- Great Buildings: A collection of historical world architecture, buildings and places.
- Landscape History: Images of landscape architecture in history from several different cultures derived from The History of Landscape Architecture.
- Renaissance to 20th Century: A compilation of Renaissance architecture images.
- World Architectural: A collection of images portraying architecture in over a dozen cultures.
- Architecture in the World: The paper explores architecture from cultures throughout the world and history.
- Seven Wonders: View the Seven Wonders of the World with brief descriptions of each.
- Architecture of the World: Take a virtual tour of influential architecture of civilizations through history.
> Building and Materials Conservation
- Heritage Conservation: Covers building conservation from the Malaysian culture.
- Conservation: View images that the display heritage values from ancient cultures.
- Preservation, Conservation & Restoration: A collection of conservation of buildings from all over the world.
> Cultural Landscapes
- From Around the World: A look at cultural landscapes from around the world.
- World Heritage and Cultural Landscapes: Mark Esposito explores the cultural landscapes of the world.
- Europe Cultural Landscape: Details the diversity of European cultural heritage.
- Africa Landscapes: An interactive map exploring African cultural heritage. There is a collection of Aluka landscape resources.
- Landscapes of North America: A collection of chapters describing cultural landscapes in North America.
- What are Cultural Landscapes? Defines cultural landscaping and provides resources that fall into these categories.
- East Asian Landscape Cultures: Describes the premise and traditions behind East Asian landscaping.
- Regions of the World: Cultural landscapes from over 66 properties from all over the world.
> Ethnographic Collections
- Historic Cultures: Collection of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceana cultures in the Museum of Anthropology.
- Archaeology and Ethnology: Ethnographic collections of North America, Africa, Oceania, Asia, South America, Central America and Europe.
- Ethnographic Collections: Descriptions of the ethnographic collections housed at the San Diego Museum of Man.
- Indigenous Communities: A collection of over 6,000 cultural artifacts by the Institute for American Indian Studies.
- Native North American: A slide show of almost 6,000 artifacts of Native American culture.
- Anthropology Collections: You can view African, Native American, Eastern Asia and South American collections.
- Cultures From Around the World: A collection representing cultures from all over the world.
- Seminole and Miccosukee Collection: 20 records of Seminole and Miccosukee ethnographic collections.
- Ten Ethnic Groups: A collection of 1,976 objects from over 10 ethnic cultures.
- Sepik Culture: A compilation of ethnographic artifacts from the Sepik culture.
- Archaeological and Ethnographic Collections: A collection of 123 countries ethnographic objects.
> Museum Collections
- Heritage Museums & Gardens: This American culture museum commemorates American art and history with is collections.
- Appalachian Cultural Museum: Displays exhibits of Appalachian culture.
- Fowler Museum: This museum exhibits the cultures of Africa, Asia, the Pacific’s and Americas.
- Lithuanian Culture: The Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture is committed to preserving Lithuanian Culture.
- Swedish America: A museum dedicated to the celebration of Swedish American culture.
- African Art: Virtual exhibits of African art.
- Asian Civilizations: View the Asian galleries that span over three levels in this museum.
- Egypt: The virtual Egyptian museum of antiquities.
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: A collection of art exhibits on word cultures.
> Oral Histories
- South Asian: Collections of interviews that help form the South Asian historical narratives.
- African Oral History: A review of the African history archives at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.
- Oral History Association: The oral History Association is dedicated to collecting international oral history of all cultures.
- Japanese American: A collection of summaries of Japanese American history related to the internment.
- Iranian Project: A collection of transcripts and audio formats in English and Persian that reflect Iranian history.
- American South: There are over 500 interviews that were selected from 4,000 interviews that cover southern American history.
- International Oral History Association: A professional organization that is dedicated to increasing the use of oral history.
- South African: National archives of South African history and a collection of oral history.
- Australia: An Australian collection of oral history and folklore.
- Canadian Oral History Association: There is a guide to searching for Canadian history collections.
- Mississippi Oral History Program: Oral History archives of Mississippi history and culture.




