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What started as a task for our student interns in 2014, is now a global campaign to motivate people to engage with heritage. This series of events is a distributed social media campaign occurring simultaneously at cities around the world to draw attention to heritage – and yet another way for laypersons to engage with heritage. Experiences from across the world will be collated and amplified through social media using the hashtag #makeheritagefun.

The prime goal of a #makeheritagefun event is to draw attention to heritage, by creating both online buzz and offline conversations. The events are intended to bring together people interested in heritage and start these conversations.

The first #makeheritagefun , started in June 2015, was organized almost simultaneously in 11 cities in Asia and Europe. Since then, it has grown profoundly and sees more than 100 cities across 5 continents participate.

GoUNESCO acts as a catalyst and offers centralised support including registrations and promotion, but the events themselves are planned and managed by volunteers in these cities. These volunteers can be anyone – in the past, we have seen students, travel bloggers, heritage organizations, even World Heritage Site managers organize events. The key aspect to note is that we do not impose our thoughts – heritage and its interpretation is left entirely to the organizers.

It is our hope that this idea spreads further and encourages everyone to think of heritage in a positive light.

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#makeheritagefun, Discover, World Heritage Sites

Petra -The Rose City

Posted onApril 30, 2019

Petra, made famous by the scenes shot in a Indiana Jones movie, is an ancient, archaeologically rich World Heritage site in Jordan, writes Manisha.

#makeheritagefun, GIP Jan - June 2018

Make Heritage Fun, March 2018

Posted onJune 10, 2018June 10, 2018

Make Heritage Fun is a celebration of our age-old customs, traditions, values and belief systems. In the era of fast food, the traditional cooking seems …

#makeheritagefun, Africa, Best of 2017, Internship July December 2017, Nature

The Owl: An Omen in Malawian Mythology

Posted onDecember 29, 2017January 12, 2018

In some Malawian myths, the owl is associated with death. In some other traditions too, th bird is often associated with magic.

#makeheritagefun, Africa, Conservation, Nature, Public Spaces

Makeheritagefun at the Mzuzu Botanical Gardens

Posted onNovember 18, 2017January 8, 2018

Mzuzu Botanical Garden is the third botanical garden to be established in Malawi after the Zomba and Lilongwe Botanical Gardens. The institution has two sections …

#makeheritagefun, Africa, Built Heritage, Community, Public Spaces

The National Museums of Lamu

Posted onOctober 4, 2017October 1, 2017

The National Museums of Kenya Lamu Museums (NMK-LM) is a regional specific cultural institution located in the northeastern coast of Kenya. NMK-LM is actually located …

#makeheritagefun, Africa

Lilongwe War Memorial Tower: The tower that tells a story

Posted onOctober 2, 2017

For decades now, Malawians have remembered their national heroes through a military salute of honor in war memorial towers that have been erected all across …

#makeheritagefun, Africa, Built Heritage, Community

The Memorial Tower at Lilongwe

Posted onOctober 2, 2017October 1, 2017

The War Memorial Tower in Lilongwe is located at the center of the town between the Capital Hill and Area 18 residential area. It is …

#makeheritagefun, Photo Stories, Stories

In Pictures: The Make Heritage Fun! day

Posted onSeptember 28, 2017September 29, 2017

#MakeHeritageFun is a distributed social media campaign coordinated on a single day acroos the world. Join this global movement and organize an event in your …

#makeheritagefun, Africa, Nature

Exploring the legacy Of Lake Malawi National Park

Posted onSeptember 24, 2017September 24, 2017

In order to answer the interesting questions on how things are changing at both local and global level, it is imperative for the countries to …

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