Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of good safeguarding practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

By clicking on the inscribed elements below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

Full text search: The system will search the exact expression entered (i.e. ‘sustainable development’), except if you separate the terms by a comma so that the motor search one or the other expression or the two (i.e. ‘foodways, culinary practices’).

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Results : 21 elements corresponding to 16 countries

2016¹ – 2011² – 2010³ – 2009⁵ – 2008¹⁰

2016
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Oselvar boat - reframing a traditional learning process of building and use to a modern context	Norway
2011
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Traditional skills of building and sailing Iranian Lenj boats in the Persian Gulf	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Register of Good Safeguarding Practices
Revitalization of the traditional craftsmanship of lime-making in Morón de la Frontera, Seville, Andalusia	Spain
2010
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ojkanje singing	Croatia
Watertight-bulkhead technology of Chinese junks	China
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Compagnonnage, network for on-the-job transmission of knowledge and identities	France
2009
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
China engraved block printing technique	China
Craftsmanship of Nanjing Yunjin brocade	China
Scribing tradition in French timber framing	France
Septennial re-roofing ceremony of the Kamablon, sacred house of Kangaba	Mali
Traditional handicrafts of making Xuan paper	China
2008
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Indonesian Kris	Indonesia
Kutiyattam, Sanskrit theatre	India
Makishi masquerade	Zambia
Opera dei Pupi, Sicilian puppet theatre	Italy
Oral and graphic expressions of the Wajapi	Brazil
Polyphonic singing of the Aka Pygmies of Central Africa	Central African Republic
Sbek Thom, Khmer shadow theatre	Cambodia
Space of gong culture	Viet Nam
Vanuatu sand drawings	Vanuatu
Wayang puppet theatre	Indonesia