Bath World Heritage Site

06/12/2024

🎉 We’re Winners! 🎉

Thrilled to share that the Bath World Heritage Centre has won GOLD for Visitor Information Service at the Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards! 🏅

A massive thank you to our incredible team, our dedicated staff and volunteers, and everyone who visited and supported us. Your enthusiasm helps us inspire and educate about Bath’s rich cultural history every day. ✨🏛️

Supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we continue to offer interactive exhibits, free walking trails, and a specially designed mobile app to help you uncover both famous landmarks and hidden gems across Bath.

Read more about the awards: www.somersettourismawards.org.uk

18/10/2024

We’re Finalists! 🎉

We’re excited to announce that the Bath World Heritage Centre has been named a finalist for Visitor Information Service of the Year at this year’s Bristol, Bath & Somerset Tourism Awards! 🏆

A big thank you to all our visitors and supporters for helping us share Bath’s incredible heritage with the world. 🌍

05/06/2024

🎉This Volunteers Week we are celebrating all our volunteers at Bath World Heritage Centre. In this film, John explains what motivated him to volunteer at the Centre - and he shares his top tips for exploring Bath!

We are always looking for more volunteers for the centre. See more at the bathworldheritage website.

John, one of the volunteers at Bath World Heritage Centre. Discover what he enjoys ab...

03/06/2024

🎉This Volunteers Week we are celebrating all our volunteers at Bath World Heritage Centre. We are always looking for more volunteers for the centre. See more at the bathworldheritage website.

11/01/2024

We’re joining the National Lottery Heritage Fund in celebrating Day, shining a spotlight on all our volunteers and staff who warmly welcome visitors to the Bath World Heritage Centre to discover what makes Bath such a unique place.

The Centre is free to enter and features a host of interactive exhibits and displays designed to inspire and inform. It also provides free information on walking trails and guides to help visitors explore all that our great city has to offer.

Visit the website here https://www.bathworldheritage.org.uk/visit-bath-world-heritage-centre

Made possible thanks to support from National Lottery Heritage Fund

04/01/2024

We're excited to announce that UNESCO will officially recognise our 200th anniversary on 4 March 2024.

This recognition means that our bicentenary will be included in a worldwide list of anniversaries that UNESCO will be associated with in 2024-2025. Not only is this an immense honour, it will have real-life impact. Working with UNESCO and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, we'll deliver drowning prevention messages globally during 2024. This will help us in our mission to save every one.

Our Chief Executive, Mark Dowie, told us:

‘It is an immense honour for the RNLI’s 200 years of lifesaving to be recognised by an organisation with such global significance as UNESCO.

‘For two centuries, the RNLI has continued to save lives thanks to the commitment of its people – its lifesavers and supporters – and so this recognition is really a tribute to their courage, dependability and generosity, which have made the charity into the world-class lifesaving organisation it is today.

‘It is significant that, in our 200th year, we have this opportunity to amplify the reach of our drowning prevention messages in the UK, Ireland and internationally. Every other minute, someone in the world drowns – this is a shocking fact and one which we are determined to change. This partnership will help us to deliver vital water safety messages worldwide. Our founder, Sir William Hillary, had a truly global vision for a lifesaving service, and this recognition in the RNLI’s 200th year would no doubt make him proud – as it does for all of us who save lives at sea today.’

The partnership builds on UNESCO's acceptance in 2014 of our earliest archive collections into the Memory of the World Register.

01/12/2023

Last night we were delighted to win the Silver Award for Visitor Information Service of the Year at the Bristol, Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards! 🥈 A big thank you to all of our staff and volunteers at the Bath World Heritage Centre who do such a brilliant job of welcoming visitors to Bath.

23/11/2023

Bath Christmas Market is now open and runs until 10 December! 🎄 If you're making a festive trip to Bath, don't forget to pop into the Bath World Heritage Centre on York Street and discover what Bath has to offer https://www.bathworldheritage.org.uk/visit-bath-world-heritage-centre

12/10/2023

Are you passionate about the City of Bath? Do you have hours to spare? If you're interested in volunteering at the Bath World Heritage Centre we'd love to hear from you!

Find out more and apply here > https://ow.ly/ilMs50PVVZI

10/10/2023

We are delighted to share that the Bath World Heritage Centre is a finalist in the Visitor Information Service of the Year category of the Bristol Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards! 🎉

21/08/2023

Our Bath World Heritage Centre Hosts had a little visitor from our green landscape over the weekend! Here it is sitting on one of the brochures 😄

09/06/2023

Job alert! 📢 We're looking for a Volunteer Manager to manage the Bath World Heritage Centre volunteers and develop the volunteer offer for the learning and collections teams. Apply online now; job closes 3 July https://ow.ly/QU9n50OJTff

10/05/2023

Staff and volunteers gathered together yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary of the Bath World Heritage Centre! 🎉 Since opening on 9 May 2022, the centre has welcomed more than 72,000 people through its doors.

The 52 volunteers come from a variety of backgrounds, and have so far contributed an incredible total of 2,237 hours! Thank you to all the staff and volunteers for their hard work 🌟

18/04/2023

Happy 🎉 Fun fact! The city of Bath is exceptional in having two UNESCO inscriptions. In 1987 it was inscribed for its Hot Springs, Roman archaeology, Georgian buildings and natural landscape setting.

In 2021 the city received a second inscription as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe – fashionable spa towns laid out around natural springs which are used for health and wellbeing ♨️ Learn more about Bath's World Heritage on our website https://bathworldheritage.org.uk

📸: Visit Bath

06/04/2023

Are you taking a trip to Bath over the Easter weekend? 🧳 Visit the Bath World Heritage Centre where you can learn all about the amazing history and heritage of the city. Plus it's free to enter!

28/03/2023

Come and join our lovely World Heritage Centre team as a Seasonal World Heritage Host. Part-time post (12 hours/3 days per week) until the end of October. Closing date 2 April. Apply online: https://jobs.bathnes.gov.uk/itlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=212506O1Sn&WVID=7046714Y6O&LANG=USA

06/03/2023

Thank you to everyone who visited or took part in at the Guildhall on Saturday 4 March. The place was buzzing all day with visitors of all ages. The guided walks and spa-themed talks were a huge hit.

04/03/2023

Today is the day! Join us at Bath's Guildhall from 11am to 3pm on Saturday 4 March for . We'll be celebrating Bath's long history as a spa town with heritage organisations and participants from across the City. We have a full programme of themed talks, guided walks, displays and hands-on activities for all ages and it's all FREE. https://www.bathworldheritage.org.uk/ Great Spa Towns of Europe