GSHA Global Sports Heritage Association was founded on a simple but demanding belief: that heritage is what we carry forward.
Sport, in all its forms, is one of humanity’s most powerful cultural systems — shaping identity, memory, belonging, and aspiration across generations and geographies. Yet its meanings, histories, and values require active stewardship if they are to endure.

Emerging from the global development of IMPD (formerly IMWD – International Museum Workers Day), GSHA builds on years of experience creating inclusive, cross-border cultural platforms rooted in collaboration, responsibility, and long-term vision. GSHA understands heritage not as static memory, but as movement: something that passes through us, is reshaped by us, and is carried onward through action.

At a time of rapid transformation in sport, technology, and society, GSHA exists to connect innovation with cultural depth, growth with stewardship, and global reach with human meaning. By bringing together athletes, cultural professionals, institutions, and communities worldwide, GSHA serves as a unifying framework for knowledge-sharing and dialogue — ensuring that sports heritage remains a living force, relevant not only to the present moment, but to generations yet to come.

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In 2019, Homa Taj founded GSHA Global Sports Heritage Association which emerges from the long-term international development of IMPD (formerly IMWD – International Museum Workers Day), a global cultural initiative established in 2015 and marked in more than 170 countries. Through IMPD’s sustained growth, the project cultivated deep experience in cross-border collaboration, cultural advocacy, and inclusive platform-building across museums, archives, libraries, and heritage institutions worldwide. GSHA builds upon this foundation, extending the same values-driven, future-oriented approach into the realm of sport — a domain where culture, identity, community, and global exchange converge with exceptional force.

 GSHA is an international, cross-generational platform dedicated to advancing the understanding of sport as a vital cultural, historical, and social force. Founded on the belief that sport is essential to human well-being — emotionally, physically, spiritually, and communally — GSHA promotes sporting culture and heritage across regions, disciplines, and generations. Working in collaboration with athletes, historians, cultural professionals, designers, technologists, institutions, and audiences worldwide, GSHA approaches sport not simply as competition, but as a shared human language that shapes identity, values, and collective memory.

At its core, GSHA is guided by a future-facing philosophy: that heritage is not static, but continuously formed through contemporary practice and responsible stewardship. By bridging sport with culture, education, sustainability, and innovation, GSHA positions sports heritage as a tool for dialogue, peace-building, and long-term societal resilience. Serving as a unifying framework for knowledge-sharing and collaboration, GSHA ensures that the histories, practices, and meanings of sport are preserved, interpreted, and reimagined for future generations — not as nostalgia, but as living heritage with global relevance and enduring impact.