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cultural heritage

physical artifact or intangible attribute of a society inherited from past generations
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cultural heritage
Allard Schmidt (The Netherlands) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

cultural heritage ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,520 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: heritage[2]
  • Part of: culture[3]
  • Commons category: Cultural heritage[4]
  • Said to be the same as: GLAM[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Cultural heritage[6]
  • Described at URL: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources/glossary/2488[7]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: historic=heritage[8]
  • Different from: cultural capital[9], culture[10]
  • Studied by: heritage studies[11], heritage science[12]
  • Union of: list of values as qualifiers[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Open Culture / GLAM Glossary[14]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Historic Sites[15]
  • Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator: Target 11.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals[16]

Why It Matters

cultural heritage has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 89 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . globalgoals.org. Retrieved . globalgoals.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C19026
    P14692 → Q331
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48942|batch #48942]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM keys"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2xlvWT
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 17w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Nalt id → 2174
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Nalt id: 2174"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0347051-kulturni-dedictvi
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0347051-kulturni-dedictvi, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator → Target 11.4 of the Sustainable Development Goals
    Local thumb → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Cultural heritage
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 8475, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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