Queensland Heritage Council | Special projects

The facade of the RS Exton and Co premises at 333 Ann Street.

Brisbane’s Shrine of Remembrance, dedicated on Armistice Day in 1930.

The Story Bridge, spanning Brisbane River, was built between 1935 and 1940

The Masonic temple at Barcaldine was constructed in 1901

My heritage place

Tyrconnell gold mine, part of the Hodgkinson goldfield in far north Queensland, was once home to 10,000 gold miners and their families...

Special projects

Rural heritage advisor

Since 2006, the Queensland Heritage Council has provided a rural places heritage advisory service to the owners of heritage-listed rural places. Some of the oldest and most significant Queensland homesteads are among them.

This service has provided free professional architectural advice including:

advising on painting, building maintenance, building repair and renovation
prioritising a property’s heritage conservation work
helping owners with local government planning and building applications
providing advice on how to research the history of heritage places including accessing title information and early photographs
assisting in preparing grant applications.

Contact us for further information about this service.

The Australian e-Heritage Portal

The Queensland Heritage Council is in the early stages of a project to improve online access to information about places of cultural significance. Designed for researchers and educators, the Australian e-Heritage Portal will make cultural heritage materials available through an innovative database system and search facility to a wide range of disciplines and users. Users will be able to exchange, reuse and combine data from other researchers and domains in new ways. The e-Heritage Portal will make the state-based and national collections available for the first time through a common federated search interface.

The Portal project will include a seamless research and compilation service over these databases to produce rich, up-to-date 'compound objects' for teaching, learning and research.

In particular, the heritage materials in the state and national registers will be linked to other significant research collections and sources such as libraries, museums, galleries and archives. Because each search is carried out on databases that are rigorously maintained by their custodians, researchers can be assured of accessing the most up-to-date collection of material. Any changes and additions that are made to the databases of the participating bodies will be available in the federated database.