The National Heritage Fund (NHF) is mandated to identify, protect, manage and promote our National heritage and so to develop a sense of belongingness in all Mauritians by caring for the past and bequeathing it to the future.
Before the setting up of the NHF, the heritage of Mauritius was managed under the Ancient Monuments Act in 1944, which was updated in 1985 through the National Monuments Acts. In an attempt to develop the concept of management of National Heritage, the National Heritage Trust Fund Act was passed in year 1998 which finally became the NHF Act, 2003.