Criteria for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register
Learn how we assess the cultural heritage significance of places and objects for the Victorian Heritage Register.
- Regulatory guidance
Only places or objects of cultural heritage significance to Victoria are in the Victorian Heritage Register. To be included in the register, a place or object must meet our criteria and threshold for inclusion.
Criteria for inclusion and threshold guidelines
The Victorian Heritage Register Criteria and Threshold Guidelines set out our assessment criteria.
There are eight criteria for inclusion. You must provide evidence that a place or object meets at least one of these criteria. You must also be able to show that it is of state-level significance.
This evidence can be physical or from historical, documentary or oral sources.
Supporting resources
Guidance on identifying places and objects of state-level social value in Victoria (Criterion G)
Victoria's Framework of Historical Themes
Landscapes of cultural heritage significance assessment guidelines
Short form landscape assessment guidelines
Heritage places and objects under each criterion
Explore the heritage places and objects listed below. These are examples of places and objects that have met our criteria and been included in the Register.
Criterion A: Importance to the course, or pattern, of Victoria’s cultural history
Criterion B: Possession of uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of Victoria’s cultural history
Criterion C: Potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Victoria’s cultural history
Criterion D: Importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural places and objects
Criterion E: Importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics
Criterion F: Importance in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period
Criterion G: Strong or special association with a particular present-day community or cultural group for social, cultural, or spiritual reasons
Criterion H: Special association with the life or works of a person, or group of persons, of importance in Victoria’s history
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- Regulatory guidance
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