The Fondazione Luigi Micheletti is a research centre on contemporary history, specialized on collecting and spreading material and immaterial heritage of the 20th and 21st century. Scientific research and heritage selection aim to understand, convey and store everything that, although close to us and historically crucial, risks to become just the memory of few.
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Pro Torviscosa APS is a local association that aims to enhance Torviscosa and protect its historical, urban and environmental heritage. Its members include historians, chemists, communication professionals, and university students. Some have been involved for years in archival-documentary research in Italy and abroad, aimed at identifying significant documents for the history of Torviscosa and the company from which the town originated.
The Association of Portuguese Political Exiles (AEP61-74) is an association of former Portuguese deserters, refractories and political exiles in Europe. Its objectives are to publish
the book Exiles with testimonies of Portuguese exiles in Europe (1961-74), to collect and disseminate memories of the exile of the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, to create,
produce and support multimedia communication of that same period, to support and develop initiatives for peace, human rights, and against war.
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MAARC (Virtual Museum of Abstract Art and Architecture rationalist Como - Italy) is a research centre dedicated to abstract art and artistic and architectural rationalism in the city of Como, displaying examples of art and architecture of international interest. MAARC is an initiative of the Cultural Association MadeInMaarc founded in 2013 with the purpose of enhancing and promoting the knowledge of Rationalism and Abstractism in Como through the development of a virtual museum and cultural activities on the theme.
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