
Heritage Year
Heritage Year 2025
Summer full of heritage fun in Heerlen
Have you already discovered this summer's Year of Heerlen Heritage? There's lots of fun stuff planned, with something for everyone! For young and old, there is plenty to do! Like the district gatherings of Stichting Open Monumentendag Heerlen. Get active with family or friends and discover special gems in Hoensbroek during the geocache event. Or walk past the brand new neon artwork by Chaim van Luit in the Plaarstraat from Sunday, August 17.
Future activities

Below is a current overview of events and activities that shape the Year of Heerlen Heritage. Making the past visible and experienceable in the present is the common thread running through the program. This page is updated weekly. So check back regularly for the list of activities.
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The Heritage Year program
Roman villas in Limburg
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Location:The Find (Raadhuisplein 20, Heerlen)ExhibitionChaim van Luit: On Bearing Hands
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Location:Plaarstraat, Heerlen-CentrumArtPhoto exhibition: My Tattoo (location: Heerlerheide)
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Location:Cornelius Square, HeerlerheideExposition
Articles
Too late for subsidy? True.
Too late for fun? Absolutely not!
The deadline for grant applications has passed. August 15, 2025 was really the very, very last chance. But the Heritage Year is far from over! Until December we will continue the program, which was designed from the bottom up, with commitment and pride by Heerlen citizens. Because heritage is much more than what is in display cases or on monument lists. During the Heritage Year, heritage is a shared, living practice: not a dusty label, but a connecting force between people, generations and communities. It is about what people find important to preserve and pass on: stories, rituals, images and rhythms that resonate in the present.
