
Explore Bath's world heritage
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One of the best preserved Roman remains in the world.
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A world-class collection of contemporary and historical dress.
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Bath's public art museum housing paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
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Stunning and historic venues for hire in the heart of a World Heritage city.
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Collecting and keeping safe historical records relating to Bath.
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The City of Bath is designated with UNESCO World Heritage Site status.
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Promoting and assisting film-making in Bath & North East Somerset.
Introducing Art Club
We have joined with our friends at the Roman Baths, Fashion Museum, Victoria Art Gallery and Bath Record Office to bring you a range of themed activity videos so you can get creative at home and find out more about our special places and collections. All of the instructions and a list of materials you will need are included in the short videos.
Celebrate the city's stunning Georgian architecture by making your own Bath Building Card.
Celebrate World Heritage in the UK by making a Stonehenge Solstice Silhouette.
Celebrate international World Heritage by making a Stained Glass Window.
Get creative with more Art Club activities from the Roman Baths, Fashion Museum, Victoria Art Gallery and Bath Record Office.
Bath World Heritage Day went digital!
Saturday 18th April was UNESCO World Heritage Day. We had organised a big, free, community event to promote the city’s World Heritage Site status, and celebrate Bath being part of the wider World Heritage family. As we were unable to welcome visitors in person this year we brought you a digital Bath World Heritage Day instead!
We hope you will continue to join in with some of our special activities at home. We'd love to see your pictures and creations. You can share with us on Twitter (@BathWHS), Facebook or by email.
Select below to find family activities to try at home themed on the six unique elements, recognised by UNESCO in 1987, that make Bath a World Heritage Site.
To dive deeper and try out extra activities you can freely download the Bath World Heritage Site primary resource pack and secondary resource pack. These were produced in partnership with Bath Preservation Trust. The activities include making your own mini museum (primary), finding out about King Bladud and the mythical origins of Bath (primary), considering the risks to World Heritage (secondary) and asking questions about Bath’s future (secondary).
If you fancy a grown-up challenge you can try our UK World Heritage quiz or try and guess the World Heritage Site from the emojis.
Bath World Heritage Day is always a partnership effort when we showcase the amazing collections, work and opportunities offered by museums and heritage sites across the city. Many of these partners have created lots of wonderful online resources, activities and virtual tours to keep us entertained while we are unable to visit in person. Here are some useful links:
Lots of activities to try at home from the four museums of Bath Preservation Trust: No. 1 Royal Crescent, Museum of Bath Architecture, Herschel Museum of Astronomy and Beckford’s Tower
Science, games and craft activities from the Roman Baths
Get arty and crafty with the Victoria Art Gallery
Colour and create with the Fashion Museum
Get historical with Bath Record Office activities, and start your Coronavirus diary
Download Discovery Sheets from the American Museum and Gardens
Join the Holburne Museum's 'Creativity 4 Wellbeing' virtual art group. Download fun weekly activities and make or decorate a spoon for a virtual installation.
Get exploring in the garden or close to home with Bathscape
Digital downloads of our World Heritage Site City Trail and Nelson Trail are now available. If you live in or near the city centre you could try following sections during your 'One Walk a Day'. Please respect social distancing rules.
Read all about the impressive projects undertaken around Bath supported by the Bath World Heritage Site Enhancement Fund in the 2020 newsletter.
Lots of work is going on behind the scenes to keep projects on track. We are busy with our plans for the brand new World Heritage Centre in York Street, which will open to visitors in 2021, as part of the Archway Project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. We are very excited! We look forward to being able to share and promote Bath's wonderful World Heritage with a wider audience of local residents and visitors to the city.
If you are feeling nostalgic revisit some happy memories of how we celebrated World Heritage Day from 2014 to 2019.
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