ABOUT: Heritage Protection Society (Tas)

Supply River Mill: This image and the site are a part of Tasmania's built heritage
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Heritage Protection Society (Tasmania) Inc. is a community based organisation that is formed to recognise the cultural heritage significance of what the Tasmanian community has inherited from the past and what we value enough today to preserve for future generations.

Cultural heritage is about people, society and the environment, and is represented by natural, indigenous and historic places with cultural heritage values; related objects and artifacts; and the records and stories of social history.

The aesthetic, historic, scientific and social values comprising the cultural heritage significance of Tasmania, for its past, present and future generations, as established in the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter, is a concept to which we aspire to further, promote and enhance.

We aim to communicate, educate and advocate for the protection of cultural heritage in Tasmania, and to participate positively in the planning system to seek to minimize the level of physical intervention in relation to cultural heritage fabric and practices, whilst sustaining dynamic continued adaptive uses.

  Basic objects  

1. Promoting or ensuring the preservation and maintenance for the public benefit, of places and objects of beauty or having an historical, scientific, artistic or architectural interest; knowledge of, interest in, and respect for those places and objects; and the provision and maintenance of activities and services to facilitate their enjoyment by the public. 
2. Recording and preserving the cultural heritage practices of Tasmanian communities; identifying the qualities for which Tasmania has become a focus of spiritual, political, national or other cultural sentiment to both majority and minority groups; and facilitating an educational program at the broadest possible level in these communities. 
3. Ensuring the public acquisition where only absolutely necessary for the protection and maintenance of cultural heritage places and artifacts, and assisting in this process in a material way. 
4. Supporting the common aims and activities of other like-minded organizations, such as and including historical societies, cultural groups and associations, the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania), and collaborating with national and international bodies to reach a collegiate outcome. 
5. Raising funds and seeking outside funding support from government and public agencies for the promulgation of the aims of the Association.

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