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Presenters of Memories and Heritage at the Crossroads at the XII AISU Congress, Palermo 2025. From 10 to 13 September 2025, Palermo hosted the XII Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU) – a vibrant international gathering dedicated to exploring the city as a crossroads of relations, exchanges, and cultural encounters. Among its many panels, Memories and Heritage at …
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Is history a battle between good and evil? A game of ideology? A question of perspective? In the first session of our Public History seminar, we explored these questions using Maurizio Cattelan’s chessboard installation Good vs Evil – a surreal tableau of historical, religious, and fictional figures locked in symbolic combat. Students were divided into six groups, each analyzing …
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Heritage is not only found in museums or monuments. It lives in motion – when we walk through streets, notice small traces of everyday life, and share stories that connect us to places and to each other. In Luxembourg, where many cultures and languages meet, fragments of everyday heritage a washhouse, a street corner, or even …
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Among the most unusual exhibits of the small Musée gaumais is certainly the “Matrjoscha” Mother Mary. It is a wooden statue from the 18th century, originally from the church of Sainte-Marie. As the Queen of the Universe, Mary stands on a crescent moon. The statue has a cavity on the back of the Madonna that …
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Museum people know that every historical exhibition needs to be curated. The curator is responsible for the content of an exhibition, makes the choice of the objects, writes the texts. He coordinates the exhibition project and, together with the exhibition designer he decides about the dramaturgy of the show. Museum experts André Gob and Noémie …
