Heritage Exposition

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water leads Australia’s response to climate change and sustainable energy use, and protection of our environment, heritage, and water.

Our goal is to build a more sustainable and future-ready Australia with genuine engagement with First Nations Peoples.

HSR has successfully operated Australia-wide for over twenty-five years on both small- and large-scale commercial projects, offering services in conservation, restoration and construction, as well as, services in consultancy, inspection and surveys, dilapidation reports, fabric analysis, training workshops and cost planning.

HSR has gained success through combining modern management principles with a sympathetic approach to conserving historic buildings. We strive to offer the finest quality and attention to detail to conserve Australia’s built heritage with the highest level of Artisan skill employing various and qualified trades, with a strong project management team which maintains a ‘hands-on’ approach providing the client with a complete service.

The Sydney Opera House is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site, a masterpiece of ‘human creative genius’ that belongs to all. For five decades, we have stood as an integral part of Sydney through our contribution to culture, heritage, sustainability, and tourism.

The Sydney Opera House is proud to be strategic partnership of the ICOMOS GA

Located on the fringe of the Greater Sydney region, the Blue Mountains is one of only two cities in the world surrounded by a UNESCO declared World Heritage National Park.

We are an ECO City collaborating across sectors to pioneer systemic change, to help restore planetary health.

Museums of History NSW is the custodian of 13 museums, historic houses, landscapes, and vast collections including the NSW State Archives Collection. Dedicated to engaging people in our past, MHNSW provides greater access to these assets and to a broad range of stories about our social, cultural, and political histories and identities.

ICOMOS is an international NGO dedicated to the conservation, protection, use and enhancement of the world’s cultural heritage. Its network of 11 000 members comes from across the heritage field and is united in improving heritage preservation, standards and techniques. As an official advisory body to the World Heritage Committee, ICOMOS evaluates nominations and advises on the state of conservation of World Heritage properties.

Placemaking NSW is the state government agency responsible for the care, conservation and management of some Sydney’s most valued harbourside precincts. We manage over 19km of harbourside land including more than 135 heritage listed assets and Australia’s most significant heritage precinct relating to European settlement, The Rocks.

Getty Conservation Institute works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts—objects, collections, architecture, and sites. We serve the conservation community through scientific research, education and training, field projects, and disseminating information. In all our endeavors, we create and deliver knowledge that contributes to conservation of the world’s cultural heritage.

Virtus Heritage is a dedicated and experienced team of archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians who provide expert advice and guidance on the management and protection of cultural heritage sites. We have a deep understanding of the cultural, social, and historical significance of the sites we work on, and we are committed to preserving and promoting their heritage values. Our interdisciplinary team works broadly with government agencies, private sector organisations, research institutions and community groups. Our work is centred around the core belief that cultural heritage is a valuable and non-renewable resource that should be sustained for future generations. Virtus Heritage is committed to building strong partnerships with clients to provide accurate, trusted advice on cultural heritage preservation that effectively manages risk.

With clear understanding of place and significance, our team of Heritage Architects respectfully breathe new life into heritage places. For over 130 years, we have created enduring architecture with award-winning conservation and adaptive reuse of built heritage. Our process respectfully enhances the values and meaning of places for their communities.

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta

Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta is located in the mid-north of South Australia. It comprises two historic ‘Cornish’ copper mining landscapes in comparatively remote country separated by a distance of 130 km: Burra National Heritage Area and Moonta Mines National Heritage Area. Australian Cornish Mining Sites: Burra and Moonta represents the first transfer, in the 1840s, of Cornish mining technology to the Antipodes – to the British Crown colony of South Australia. This was accompanied by the pronounced migration of miners and their families, especially from 1846 to 1886, and which had, overall, a profound effect on mining progress and settlement both here and elsewhere in Australia, New Zealand, and in the wider expansion of the international mining frontier, including North America and South Africa. These sites comprise the fullest, largest and distant transfer of this mining culture, its resilience in Australia, and places where Cornish mining technology, skills and culture are demonstrated to the highest degree in a surviving coherent cultural landscape.

Transport for NSW keeps our State moving by providing safe, integrated and efficient transport systems. We are also the custodians of the State’s Transport Heritage. Our commitment to heritage is underpinned by legislation and is embodied in our heritage procedures, guidelines and resources.

Many of the transport routes we use today – from rail lines to roads to water crossings – follow traditional pathways that Aboriginal people have used for tens of thousands of years. Through our commitment to community engagement, we acknowledge our responsibility as custodians of a shared and constantly developing heritage. A heritage that is embedded in and created on the lands and waterways that tells the human history of New South Wales.

The Digital Heritage Construction (DHC) project is a collaborative research initiative that focuses on the utilization of Digital Interactive Environments, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies, to evaluate the cultural significance of construction documentation and processes related to historically important buildings. The project is a collaboration between the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

At the ICOMOS General Assembly in 2023, the DHC project will showcase two immersive VR experiences that recreate the construction site of the Sydney Opera House, providing a vivid representation of the building process as it occurred. These experiences aim to bring to life the documents, moments, and stories associated with the construction of this iconic architectural landmark.

The DHC project’s inaugural case-study draws its foundation from the research project “Beyond the Spherical Solution: The Australian Contribution to the Making of the Sydney Opera House.” This research project is led by a team of researchers, including Dr. Paolo Stracchi from the University of Sydney, Dr. Luciano Cardellicchio from the University of New South Wales, and Prof. Paolo Tombesi from EPFL.

The primary objective of the DHC project is to revolutionize the assessment of construction documentation to enhance our knowledge, appreciation, and interpretation of architectural heritage.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. Created in 1948, IUCN has evolved into the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network.

By harnessing the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organisations from over 160 countries, and the input of some 15,000 experts worldwide, IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

The Australian Committee of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (ACIUCN) was founded over forty years ago to provide a focus for local member organisations to advance the union’s global mission and programs in Australia. In Australia, the IUCN constituency comprises a rich network of over 40 government and non-government Member and Associate organisations and hundreds of IUCN Commission experts.

NSW Public Works is the advisory and delivery government agency behind NSW’s most challenging regional development projects. Working as an extension of our client’s team, we bring deep design, engineering, procurement and project management know-how to complex community problems and projects, wherever our help is needed in NSW.

Heritage Strategies International works at the nexus of heritage conservation and economics. Our Washington DC-based firm has worked with local and national governments, development banks, and NGOs in more than 50 countries.  We help clients encourage the economically productive use of heritage resources through high-quality analysis, capacity building, technical assistance, and information.

AusHeritage is a network of Australian cultural heritage management organisations, established by the Australian Government in 1996. The network aims to facilitate the engagement of practitioners and organisations for the Australian heritage industry in the overseas arena. Its members work internationally on a grant funded, commercial or cooperative basis.

CIPA Heritage Documentation is a dynamic international organization that has twin responsibilities: keeping up with technology and ensuring its usefulness for cultural heritage conservation, education and dissemination. This dual role is exhibited in our parent organizations: ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites) and ISPRS (International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing).