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

 
  • Regional Views: Report, images and archaeological data of all the regions.
  • 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.
  • Mesopotamia: Photographs of Mesopotamia archaeological sites.
  • Mesoamerica: A collection of Mesoamerica archaeological sites.
 

> 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.
  • Seven Wonders: View the Seven Wonders of the World with brief descriptions of each.
 

> Building and Materials Conservation

 
  • Conservation: View images that the display heritage values from ancient cultures.
 

> Cultural Landscapes

 
  • Africa Landscapes: An interactive map exploring African cultural heritage. There is a collection of Aluka landscape resources.
 

> 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.
  • Indigenous Communities: A collection of over 6,000 cultural artifacts by the Institute for American Indian Studies.
  • Sepik Culture: A compilation of ethnographic artifacts from the Sepik culture.
 

> Museum Collections

 
  • 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.
  • Egypt: The virtual Egyptian museum of antiquities.
 

> 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.
  • South African: National archives of South African history and a collection of oral history.
  • Australia: An Australian collection of oral history and folklore.
 

Heritage Resources