The real work starts after the exhibits are over.
Women’s Movements in Nationalist Contexts; (Pre-)Reflections on the 8th of March Strike in Barcelona
On the 8th of March 2018, on International Women’s Day, Spanish women are planning on holding a nationwide 24 hour strike combined with several marches…
Historical oppositions to Spain: “Fora, fora, la bandera espanyola!”
After the victory of Catalonia’s pro-independence parties last year, when Catalonia declared itself independent through a referendum, the president of the central Spanish government Mariano…
Are you Italian enough to visit the Egyptian Museum ?
The Egyptian Museum of Turin attracts a great number of visitors every year, and it is one of the most popular cultural sites in Italy.…
Pride & Feminism
Beyond the clever play-on-words I’ve so bravely attempted for a title (so sorry Ms. Austin), this blog-post is an effort to verbalize my very personal…
Web Archives: What Can They Do?
Why I Write about Web Archives? The reason for me to write about Web archiving is quite straight-forward and honest. I started an internship with…
Cultural Built Heritage: You Can’t Sit With Us!
Castles and country houses. For one it is merely an architectural proof of a bygone aristocratic stronghold, for the other an embodiment that fairy tales…
Fruit of The Loom: A Look at the Weaving Heritage Initiative in Gonies, Greece
by Anna Gay I’m in the third grade and am drawn to the hand loom on my art teacher’s desk. The design is as simple…
Why Cultural Organizations Don’t Grow, and Why it’s a Good Thing.
Last week, I was at a talk by Dr. May Al-Ibrashy, the force behind Al-Athar Lina, an amazing initiative which sets out to conserve the…
Coloring Books as Means of Engaging Audiences with European Heritage
For my final paper of the course Who Owns the Past, I wrote about performed European citizenship in the European Route of Industrial Heritage’s event Work It…