Architectural Heritage Centre (AHC)
Welcome to the Architectural Heritage Centre, a hub for the preservation, research, and celebration of architectural heritage. We are committed to safeguarding the cultural and historical value of the built environment through research, documentation, education, and collaboration. By connecting communities, scholars, and practitioners, the Centre promotes a deeper appreciation of architectural heritage and supports sustainable approaches to conservation for future generations.
Our Mission
The mission of the Architectural Heritage Centre of Papua New Guinea is to collect, conserve and promote, for the benefit of future generations, knowledge of traditional and other forms of architecture that are important for cultural and historic reasons.
In fulfilment of its mission the Centre seeks these outcomes:
- support of research by national and international scholars into all forms of indigenous and other important heritage architecture
- establishment of a permanent and secure archive for materials collected from local and overseas sources
- publishing of selected research findings in journals, monographs, and books
- stimulation of professional and public interest in heritage architecture by contributing to education programs and dissemination of educational material, and through participation in seminars and conferences
- cooperative relationships with other national and international institutions with similar purposes
- development and maintenance of a representative collection of traditional building components and full-sized buildings
- encouragement of in-situ preservation of significant examples of traditional architecture
- Fostering of the development of sustainable and culturally, environmentally, and economically appropriate forms of contemporary architecture.
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