AWA - Memories

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CIASC , a public provider of IT services in Brazil and in collaboration with Santa Catarina State Archives, virtu- ally deposited precious archival documents capturing the history of the State of Santa Catarina.   The collection portrays the political and administrative history since 1703 and highlights the actions and relations established by the government of the Island of Santa Ca- tarina with the regal or central power since the colonial period, passing through the province of imperial times until the middle of the 20th century. The documents show the peculiarities of governance, territorial, eco- nomic and social formation over time.  Added to this documentary heritage is a cartographic collection of more than 4,000 maps, plans and sketch- es, 9,000 iconographic images, 700 multimedia ma- terials and a support library that accommodates more than 5,000 textual bibliographic volumes, including rare works dated between 1752 and 1959. 

‘We have aworld-class collection ofmodern and contem- porary art, and we are deeply convinced that art says a lot about the world it was created in and the people who cre- ated it. We want future humanity to get an idea of who we were, by seeing the art we created today,’ says Gitte Ørsk- ou, director of ModernaMuseet.  The Finnish Labour Archive , Työväen Arkisto, the oldest labour archive in Finland holding political, trade union and other donated archives, deposited a photo col- lection fromthe history of the archive, including personal stories.   Martin Schøyen Foundation, holding the largest private collection of manuscripts in the world, deposit- ed the BibliothecaManuscripts Schoeyana as well as a nice collection of Buddhist manuscripts, curated by the University of Oslo. 

ModernaMuseet , Sweden, virtually deposited a copy of its entire art database of 140,000pieces, alongwith the descriptions and images.