Singapore is a tiny Southeast Asian nation-state located in a region with many ethnic groups, of which the Chinese comprise only a small percentage of the overall population. Yet, the Chinese form the majority in Singapore, living alongside a significant...
Singapore launched its second series of Street Corner Heritage Galleries for traditional trades and businesses on 22 April 2021. The scheme invites qualifying traditional trades and businesses with at least thirty years of history to collaborate with the National Heritage...
Singapore’s Malay Heritage Centre (MHC) organizes Lintas Nusantara, an annual dance festival that serves as a platform for dance masters and troupes from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries in the region to showcase their work and capabilities and to...
Hanoi, 26 December 2020: A community seminar participated by five local tugging ritual and game communities took place at Hanoi Museum to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the element’s inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage...
ICHCAP participated in an MoU signing with the Indonesian Heritage Cities Network (Jaringan Kota Pusaka Indonesia or JKPI). The Director-General of ICHCAP, Keum Gi Hyung and Presidium Chairman DRS H. Alfedri, M. Si signed the MoU via a video conference...
The first national conservation carpentry skills competition is open to craftspeople, especially carpenters and shop drafting technicians with experience working in conservation projects to compete for the trophy presented by Her Royal Highness the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. It aims to...
The National Heritage Board of Singapore (NHB) recently published the first issue of a two-part series of MUSE SG that focuses solely on Singapore’s intangible cultural heritage (ICH). MUSE SG is NHB’s outreach magazine that features museum and heritage related...
Saman is a traditional religious performing art of the Gayo people in Gayo Lues and surrounding districts in Aceh Province, Indonesia. The performers, always an odd number, sit on their heels and kneel in tight lines. Saman movements symbolize the...
The traditional musical instruments of Myanmar are valuable cultural assets that represent the rich cultural traditions and arts of the country. The history of traditional instruments began as early as in the Pyu and Bagan periods. They were actively developed...
In Cambodia, ICH is deployed for the transmission of important public health messages. One of the traditional functions of Chapei Dang Veng artists in Cambodian society is to convey important news and information to the community. Today, Master Kong Nay...