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Aljube Museum Resistance and Freedom (Portugal)

Dedicated to the memory of the resistance to the dictatorship, the struggle for freedom and democracy in Portugal, Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade (Aljube…

Cultural Heritage without Borders Bosnia and Herzegovina (CHwB BH)

Cultural Heritage without Borders Bosnia and Herzegovina (CHwB BH) is an independent non-governmental organisation dedicated to preserving tangible and intangible cultural heritage. We are committed…

Emigration Museum in Gdynia (Poland)

The Emigration Museum in Gdynia tells the global story of Polish emigration, preserving the experiences of millions who left their homeland in search of freedom…

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…

German Emigration Center (Germany)

The German Emigration Center (GEC), or Deutsches Auswandererhaus, offers an immersive exploration of Europe’s migration history, preserving the personal stories of emigrants who departed from…

Gernika Gogoratuz Centro de Investigación Por la Paz

Gernika Gogoratuz Centro de Investigación Por la Paz (Gernika Gogoratuz Center for Peace) develops research, training and dissemination processes that aim to contribute to the historical memory surrounding the 1937 Nazi bombing of Gernika, in which one-third of the town’s residents were killed or wounded. Now designated a City of Peace for the European region by UNESCO, the town is committed to using its past to foster a culture of peace. For this, the Center carries out educational programs for peace and participates in research and international cooperation programs through academic collaborations with universities, social organizations and institutions.

Goli otok “Ante Zemljar” Association

The Goli otok “Ante Zemljar” Association Zagreb was founded in 1991 by former prisoners of Goli otok. Today, it brings together members of their families,…

H401 (The Netherlands)

H401 is a private cultural foundation located in the Herengracht building of the artist Gisèle d’Ailly van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1912-2013). Through European collaborations,…

Les Anneaux de la Mémoire

The association Les Anneaux de la Mémoire aims to raise awareness of the history of the transatlantic slave trade, colonial slavery, and their contemporary material…

Manchester Museum (England)

As an institute built on colonial history, the Manchester Museum is on a journey to become the most inclusive, imaginative and caring museum for their…

MigratieMuseumMigration (Belgium)

MigratieMuseumMigration (MMM) opened its doors in Molenbeek on 12 October 2019. It pays tribute to the many migrants who have helped shape the city. The…

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…

National Trust for Scotland

Since 1931, the National Trust for Scotland has pioneered public access to and shared ownership of some of the most magnificent buildings, collections and landscapes…

Penrhyn Castle – Castell Penrhyn a’r Ardd

Beneath its imposing stone façade, Penrhyn Castle conceals a complex and troubling history. Constructed in the early 19th century, its grandeur was funded by wealth built on…

Post-Conflict Research Center (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) is a women-led, peacebuilding organization and research center dedicated to fostering a culture of peace and preventing violent conflict in the…

Serb National Council (Croatia)

The Serbian National Council (SNC) was founded by virtue of the Erdut Agreement and the letter of the Government of the Republic of Croatia on…

Stichting de Fenix

An initiative of the Droom en Daad Foundation, FENIX opens in 2024. Is it a museum? Yes, and much more than that. FENIX is a…

The Abandonment Museum (Romania)

The Abandonment Museum is Romania’s first digital and participatory museum dedicated to a social cause and a true institution of the future. Through digital innovation and the development of a spectacular virtual reality application, it made the shortlist for The Museums and Heritage Awards in London 2024, in the “Best Use of Digital” category. The Museum of Abandonment, born in 2021 has a unique mission – to unravel the profound tapestry of abandonment, highlighting the historical narrative of the forsaken children who suffered institutionalization in Romania.

The Anti-Apartheid Legacy Trust (UK)

The Anti-Apartheid Legacy Trust., a charity established in 2018, advances public knowledge of Britain’s central role in the international social movement to end apartheid in…

The Union of Tbilisi Municipal Museums (Georgia)

The Union of Tbilisi Municipal Museums preserves and presents Georgia’s cultural and historical heritage, focusing on memorial houses dedicated to influential figures from the 19th…

Transatlantic Trafficked Enslaved African Corrective Historical Plaques (England)

TTEACH Plaques is an acronym for Transatlantic Trafficked Enslaved African Corrective Historical Plaques. It is a descendant-led initiative founded by Gloria Daniel, the great great…

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…

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…

Youth Initiative for Human Rights (Serbia)

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR) contributes to building lasting peace at national, regional, and international levels through a holistic approach to designing and…

Finnish Labour Museum (Finland)

Starting in 1993, the Finnish Labour Museum Werstas is based in the historical Finlayson cotton mill area right in the heart of Tampere. At Werstas,…

Migration Museum (United Kingdom)

The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has shaped who we are – as individuals, as…

Asociación Memorial en el Cementerio de Cáceres (Spain)

Asociación Memorial en el Cementerio de Cáceres (AMECECA), es una asociación situada en Cáceres (España) dedicada a la preservación y promoción de la memoria de…

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…

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 International is a non-governmental organization dedicated to advocating for architecture and planning with a focus on human rights. Lifta is an abandoned Palestinian village…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

International Memorial Association

International Memorial Association was created on May 16, 2023, in Geneva by 15 Memorial organization to legally replace International Memorial who was dissolved by 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…