History is Now

Waterford Memories Project

The Waterford Memories Project is a survivor-centered, collaborative project in digital humanities run by a small group of academics based at the South East Technological…

National Museums Liverpool

National Museums Liverpool (NML) is a group of eight museums and galleries, sharing important stories from ancient times to today through collections consisting of four…

Établissement public du Palais de la Porte Dorée – Musée national de l’Histoire de l’Immigration

The National Museum of the History of Immigration is a multidisciplinary cultural, scientific and educational institution. Its mission is to gather, safeguard, promote and make…

Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo

Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR KS) was established in 2004. For more than eighteen (18) years, YIHR KS has worked successfully to…

The Liliesleaf Trust UK

The Liliesleaf Trust UK (TLTU), a charity established in 2018, advances public knowledge of Britain’s central role in the international social movement to end apartheid…

Asociación Pasaje Begoña – Spain

Asociación Pasaje Begoña is a Spanish organization located in the city of Torremolinos, Malaga. The association was established in January 2018 with the primary objective…

Centre for Cultural Management (Ukraine)

Located in Lviv, Ukraine, the Centre for Cultural Management initiates, engages in and supports activities that catalyze positive cultural change in Ukraine at the individual,…

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information- IDFI (Georgia)

The Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) is a Georgian non-governmental organization founded in 2009 by two historians/researchers Levan Avalishvili and Giorgi Kldiashvili….

Syrian Network for Human Rights (Syria)

An independent, Syrian human rights organization, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) was established in June 2011. The SNHR works on documenting human rights…

Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Portugal)

The Fortress of Peniche became a symbol of resistance and the fight for freedom when political prisoners were released on 27 April 1974. This historical,…

Last Address (Russia)

The Last Address is a civic initiative to commemorate the victims of repressions in the Soviet Union. A small commemorative plaque (postcard-sized) is installed on…

Gallery 11/07/95 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Gallery 11/07/95 is the first memorial gallery in Bosnia and Herzegovina – an exhibition space aiming to preserve the memory of the Srebrenica tragedy and the…

Memorium Nuremberg Trials (Germany)

Located at the historic venue, the Memorium Nuremberg Trials informs with a permanent exhibition about the background, conduct, and subsequent effects of the trials against…

Pax (Netherlands)

PAX means peace. For over 70 years PAX, the Dutch peace organization, has worked together with people in post-conflict areas and concerned citizens to build…

Museum of British Colonialism – Kenya/United Kingdom

The Museum of British Colonialism is a collective based in Kenya and the United Kingdom founded to communicate a more truthful account of British colonialism….

Ulster Museum at the National Museums of Northern Ireland

The Ulster Museum is operated by the National Museums Northern Ireland. National Museums NI is Northern Ireland’s foremost cultural and heritage museum group. They are…

Centre for Public History (Serbia)

The Centre for Public History is a civic association founded by historians, dealing with the past experts and human rights activists, with the aim of –…

War Childhood Museum (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The War Childhood Museum, winner of the 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize, is dedicated to providing people with an outlet to share objects and…

Belonging (England)

Belonging wants to contribute to a world where national territory is not being scattered into ethnic and socio-economical enclaves, where architects and planners are not…

Cultural Heritage without Borders (Albania)

Cultural Heritage without Borders – Albania (CHwB Albania) is dedicated to rescuing and preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage affected by conflict, neglect, and both…

The Workhouse (England)

The Workhouse is a museum operated by the National Trust. Built in 1824, it was the prototype of the 19th century workhouse. The Workhouse is…

Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial Center & Cemetery (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Over 8,000 Bosnian men were executed by the Bosnian Serb Army in the Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovinan enclave of Srebrenica. These killings became the single…

Red Star Line Museum (Belgium)

Between 1873 and 1934, the legendary Red Star Line transported more than two million European passengers to America. At the port in Antwerp, Belgium, emigrants…

Museum of Free Derry (Northern Ireland)

On Sunday, January 30, 1972, in an incident known as Bloody Sunday, British paratroopers killed 14 people and wounded 17 others after a peaceful civil…

Museo Storico della Liberazione – Roma (Italy)

Museo Storico della Liberazione – Roma is housed in the building which, during the Nazi occupation of Rome, was used as a prison by the…

Memorial Democràtic de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain)

By recovering formerly repressed histories and voices, Memorial Democràtic aims to defend the Catalan citizens’ “right to remember.” The institution works to research, preserve, and…

Le Bois Du Cazier (Belgium)

On August 8th, 1956, a fire spread through Le Bois du Cazier coal mine in Marcinelle, Belgium, claiming the lives of 262 men representing 12 different nationalities….

Istituzione Musei del Mare e delle Migrazioni – Mu.MA (Italy)

From museum complex to cultural center, Mu.MA presents the sea as a dialogue between people and cultures. Galata Maritime Museum is located in the center of…

Historical Museum of the City of Krakow, Schindler’s Factory (Poland)

The Historical Museum of the City of Krakow, Schindler’s Factory is housed in what used to be the administrative building of the former Oskar Schindler factory,…

Gulag Museum at Perm-36 (Russia)

In 1995, in the Perm region of the Russian Federation, a unique memorial museum of the history of political repression was created in the former…

Fund B92 – Museum of Tolerance (Serbia)

Fund B92 is a non-profit organization that designs and produces humanitarian, cultural, educational, and socially responsible campaigns and projects to prevent and solve different social…

Fondo Kati (Spain)

Fondo Kati, which opened in 2003 with funding from the Spanish government, defends the memory of Andalusian history and sites in Timbuktu and the rest of Africa. To…

Diversity Challenges (Northern Ireland)

Diversity Challenges‘ vision is a society in which people understand, and take responsibility for, the shared and distinctive traditions of all communities. Diversity Challenges’ mission…

Discovery Center (Kosovo)

The Discovery Center provides a secure and open environment, where youth are encouraged to be curious. Emphasis is placed on creating a safe space to…

Fondazione Scuola di Pace di Monte Sole (Italy)

Between September 29 and October 5, 1944, 800 people in more than 100 places in the mountains outside Bologna, Italy (small villages, churches, and single…

Cárcel de Carabanchel Para la Memoria (Spain)

Carabanchel Prison was the most prominent place of repression during the period of General Franco’s rule (1939-1975), the last dictatorship of Western Europe. The prison’s…

Belarusian Documentation Center

The Belarusian Documentation Centre archives legal documents for the future rehabilitation of Belarusian victims of human rights abuses. The foundation works with human rights defenders…

Balkan Museum Network (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

The Balkan Museum Network exists to celebrate, preserve, and share the complex common heritage of the western Balkans. It is based on mutual respect and…

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) is regional non-governmental organisation operating and implementing programmes in Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Bosnia i Herzegovina, and Croatia. YIHR in…

The Montefiorino Republic and Italian Resistance Museum (Italy)

The Montefiorino Republic and Italian Resistance Museum in Montefiorino stems from the desire to actualize the knowledge and the ideal legacy of the liberation struggle…

Healing Through Remembering (Northern Ireland)

Healing Through Remembering (HTR) is a cross-community project made up of individual members holding differing political, social, and religious perspectives who come together to focus…

Memorial International Society (Russia)

The main task of the Memorial International Society is to awaken and preserve “social memories” of the severe political persecution which took place in the…

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Croatia)

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Croatia (YIHR Croatia) is concerned with education on transitional justice, promotion of facts about war crimes and advocacy…

Gulag.cz (Czech Republic)

The Gulag.cz Association is concerned with the phenomenon of the Gulag prison system and the Soviet totalitarian regime in general. Founded at the end of…

Cantos Cautivos

Cantos Cautivos (Captive Songs) is a digital archive that compiles memories of individual and collective musical experiences in centres for political detention and torture in…