Public Art and Memory. Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

Research Project Public Art and Memory. Developments for the Public Art program in the networks of Francoist spaces of repression in Barcelona (2017-2020) The project is based on the concept of the value of the public space integrated into the urban system, paying...

Museo Casa de la Memoria – Alcaldia de Medellín

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

Casa de la Memoria Museum was created in 2006 as an initiative of the Municipal Unit for Victim Attention and Reparation of Medellin, Colombia, in order to contribute to the comprehension and overcoming of the armed conflict and the diverse kinds of violence of...

Mémorial de la Shoah

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The seeds of the Shoah Memorial were planted during the war with the founding of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine (Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center), an archive that collected evidence of anti-Jewish persecution. Later, the Memorial of the...

KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The Mauthausen concentration camp was the heart of a system of more than 40 satellite camps. Between 1938 and 1945, it was the central site of political and racial  persecution by the Nazi regime on Austrian territory. Of a total of 190,000 persons imprisoned here, at...

International Committee of Memorial and Human Rights Museums – ICMEMOHRI

by carles | Feb 24, 2023

The International Committee of Memorial and Human Rights Museums (ICMEMOHRI) is one of ICOM’s 31 International Committees. Founded during ICOM’s general Conference in Barcelona on 3 July 2001 as IC-MEMO, in 2023 it was re-named as ICMEMOHRI. In a world...