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Flooding is currently affecting a number of areas of Victoria, including public land areas. Please check Vic Emergency and Vic Traffic websites before travelling and defer non essential travel to flood impacted areas. Motorists are urged to not drive into flood waters and adhere to warning and evacuation messages.

Victorian flood update

Heritage Victoria extends our thoughts to all who are impacted by the flooding event underway. We have compiled resources for owners of heritage properties impacted by floods

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Heritage listings

Find information about how places are heritage listed in Victoria.

Protecting our heritage

Learn how you can help protect a heritage place.

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Heritage grants

The Living Heritage grants program provides funding to safeguard and activate Victoria’s state listed heritage places.

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Permits and consents

Find out if you need a heritage permit or archaeological consent before you start works.

Resources and publications

Browse heritage policy, forms and research.

About us

Find out about Heritage Victoria’s role and responsibilities.

Find out if a place is heritage listed

Find the heritage status of properties in Victoria. Enter a property address to find out if a property is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, the Victorian Heritage Inventory, or is protected by a Heritage Overlay

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Collison between steamships Barrabool and Queensland off Wilson Promontory

Maritime Heritage at Risk Program 2021/22 Annual Report

The 2021/22 Annual Report for the Maritime Heritage at Risk Program has been published

Loong, a ceremonial Chinese Dragon with its associated regalia of Pearl and Flame, held in the collection of the Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo VHR H2120

Chinese Heritage in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR)

How are the experiences of Chinese communities represented in the VHR?

Local communities helping save Victoria’s shipwrecks

Learn how we partner with local communities to save Victoria’s fragile shipwrecks

Laid hedge with dogwood binders

Hedgelaying at Windmill Farm

A lost trade bringing life to an historic farm

Open House Melbourne Showcases Victoria’s Heritage

Get access to some of our most beloved heritage places

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Heritage places RISING to the occasion

Heritage places feature in the RISING Festival

3 women working at the Braille Library 1934

Women in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR)

How are women represented in the VHR?

Tree damage from recent storm event

Update on storm damage at Mortlake Avenue of Honour

Avenue of Honour, Mortlake – VHR H2342

Summer road trip - the heritage edition

We've created a road trip itinerary for you to explore heritage places in Victoria this Summer

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