Franco’s repression in Navarre through its spaces of remembrance
José Miguel Gastón Aguas and César Layana Ilundain, Navarre Institute of Memory, Government of Navarre
Category: Sightseeing
The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo
Elma Hašimbegović, director of the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, take the readers on a VIP tour to this unique institution
Argentine memory for the world
Alejandra Naftal, Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory, writes about it nomination process for the UNESCO World Heritage List,
A historical memory project for the future: the Park of Memory – Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism
At times when reality challenges us and we know little about what awaits us as a community, as a country and as global citizens, it is even more important to remember. We must learn from our experiences and construct collective memory that brings us together and gives us the strength and tools we need to endure the challenges and give hope to the next generations.
Tourists are just students from somewhere else… The Museum of Free Derry
Adrian Kerr, Curator of the Museum of Free Derry, the Bloody Sunday Trust project to create a museum in the Bogside to tell the story of the civil rights and Free Derry eras in the late 1960s and early 1970s from the point of view of those who were most involved in and affected by …
Ideology and Terror of the SS. An exhibition about the perpetrators, victims and bystanders in the memorial museum of Wewelsburg.
Cover picture: The crypt diplays reconstructions of the memorial cycle by Josef Glahé , first shown in in 1950, and incorporates Expressionist motifs depicting the horrors of war | M. Groppe, 2010, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg By Kirsten John-Stucke, Director of the Kreismuseum Wewelsburg The Wewelsburg is a Renaissance castle that was built at the beginning …
The House of European History: A reservoir of the diversity and complexity of the memories of Europe
Interview with Constanze Itzel, Head of Unit at the House of European History Cover picture: Constanze Itzel at the House of European History. © European Union 2017 – Source : EP The House of European History opened its doors to the public on May 6, 2017 with the aim to to encourage citizens to …
Perseverance and Place: A Review of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. By Zina Precht-Rodriguez
By Zina Precht-Rodriguez Columbia University student and EUROM fellow (2017) Cover picture: A statue of Thomas Jefferson hovers over the illuminated phrase, while a black figure hovers in the background. The arduous struggle throughout history between the legal recognition of equal rights for African Americans and the actual implementation of these rights ironically resembles the …
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Monument in San Francisco. By Marina Garde
Marina Garde Political scientist and Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) “What we have created here is an antidote to amnesia” Peter N. Carroll, historian Nine years ago, on March 30th, 2008, a national monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade was unveiled in San Francisco. Forty feet long and eight feet high, …
Aljube Museum. Musealization of a «difficult heritage». By Luís Farinha
Luís Farinha Director of the Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom The Aljube Museum appeared four decades after the fall of the New State, as a result of an awakening from an apparent amnesia of an authoritarian regime that imposed censorship on the thought and creativity of millions of Portuguese people, that deported them and …