The protection of industrial movable cultural heritage and the role of volunteer organisations in Australia

Creator: Neil Myers

Source: Architectus

Publisher: Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Technology

Rights: Approval to upload a pdf of each article to the Big Stuff website provided by the Editor-in-Chief of the Architectus journal, with an acknowledgement that they were published by Architectus and the link to the Architectus issue they are in.

Date: 2020

Introduction: Heritage listing provides formal recognition by a local council, State Government or Federal Government that an artefact has heritage significance and that the community wants to keep it for future generations.

Industrial heritage, in the sense of actual machinery and workings, is poorly represented in Australian list­ings of heritage sites and places. While listings and doc­uments such as The National Heritage Register, the Victorian Heritage Register and the Australian Her­itage Strategy record a number of places connected with industrial activities, the architecture of the buildings generally receives more detailed attention than the func­tional facilities. The Day’s Flour Mill Complex listed in the Victorian Heritage Register, for instance, comes up under the category “Registered object integral to a reg­istered place”, but the photographs provided are all exteri­or shots of buildings, and the description focuses heavily on the buildings and grounds, with almost nothing about the actual machinery and processes undertaken at the site.

Reference: Neil Myers 2020, ‘The protection of industrial movable cultural heritage and the role of volunteer organisations in Australia’, Big Stuff 2019, Faculty of Architecture of the Wrocław University of Technology

DOI Link:

Myers, Neil. (2019). The protection of industrial movable cultural heritage and the role of volunteer organisations in Australia. http://doi.org/10.37190/arc200105
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