Perth Heritage Days

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Perth Heritage Days 2014

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Despite rather inclement weather, Perth Heritage Days 2014 has been a huge success, with thousands of people enjoying a whole range of activities throughout the city. A huge thank you to our sponsors, volunteers, all those who gave of their time for each venue and activity and all our supporters who came out in their droves to enjoy Perth’s heritage in all its guises …we couldn’t have done it without you!

Perth Heritage Days proudly supported by:

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Heritage Perth is dedicated to raising awareness of Perth’s rich heritage and history, promoting it as a major cultural and economic asset for the broader community. Our role is to help provide relevant and interesting links to the City’s past through interactive education campaigns, unique tourism projects and other initiatives that consider the needs of visitors, businesses and inner-city residents.

As part of the on-going program of innovative heritage promotion Heritage Perth held its first Perth Heritage Day on Sunday, 15th November, 2009.

Heritage Day was designed to provide a unique opportunity for people to explore and enjoy sometimes hidden, often curious and always interesting places in the centre of Perth. Through the generous sponsorship of City of Perth, Lotterywest, EPRA and others, the event was completely free of charge, making it available to a wide cross-section of the community.

Attracting an audience of over 6,000, the event encouraged people of all ages to develop an understanding and enthusiasm for their local historic environment. Most importantly, Heritage Day helped to show that exploring the history and heritage of Perth can be fun as well as an educational pastime. As a result of this feedback from the first event, and an increase in the number of venues wishing to participate in Heritage Days, it was decided to make Heritage Days 2010 a whole weekend to ensure participants could maximise the number of activities they took part in.

Five years on, Perth Heritage Days is now established as the city’s premier heritage event, attracting large crowds to explore and enjoy a wide range of heritage related activities spread throughout the city centre.

Perth Heritage Days Objectives

The objectives Perth Heritage Days is to:

  • Increase awareness of Perth’s heritage places
  • Increase understanding of the importance of heritage places to everyone
  • Enhance public view of heritage assets
  • Increase media coverage of ‘positive’ heritage stories
  • Increase the number of people to exploring the city
  • Increase awareness of the role of Heritage Perth and other heritage organisations

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