30 years of Brazilian life stories

30 years of Brazilian life stories

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Institutions

Brazilian Museum of the Person

The Museum of the Person, a virtual and collaborative museum dedicated to the recording, preservation and dissemination of life stories, turned 30 in 2022. To celebrate the date and also propose reflections on the importance of personal narratives in our society, the museum depositet part of its collection at the Arctic World Archive. Three projects was deposited that mark the beginning of the institution’s trajectory: “Inheritances and Memories”, “Memory and Migration” and “Oral Memory of the Elderly”. In total, there are 187 audio and video interviews and 915 images, collected between 1988 and 1992, representative of the museum’s history and Brazilian cultural diversity.

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Embassy of Kosovo in Norway

Oral history from Kosovo

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UNESCO Archives

UNESCO

UNESCO Archives

Today, UNESCO is the custodian of the IIIC archives, inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, thanks to the support of the People of Japan, UNESCO Archives was able to digitize the documents and correspondence of the IIIC and make them freely accessible online.

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Founded in Florence, Italy in 1852, Fratelli Alinari was one of the world's oldest photographic firms.

Fratelli Alinari

Fratelli Alinari

A unique selection of photographic material from Alinari’s huge and prestigious archives of photography have been deposited in the Arctic World Archive.

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