When someone makes a #donation of an #artifact or #relic to a #museum, they ought to receive by default in exchange: one (1) heritable, lifetime pass to that museum.

Ancillary Tags for reach:
#lifetimepass #donors #philanthropy #historicalpreservation #mutualaid #posterity #donations #altruism

🇫🇷 A Laeken, on peut voir ce monument "au travail", oeuvre du sculpteur Constantin-Emile Meunier et de l'architecte Mario Knauer.

Toutes les informations sur ce monument classé : https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/buildings/37536

🇬🇧 This monument "to the work" from sculptor Constantin-Emile Meunier and architect Mario Knauer.

All the informations about this monument (in French or Dutch) : https://monument.heritage.brussels/fr/buildings/37536

#statuenSamstag #StatueSaturday #patrimoineHistorique #HistoricalPreservation

Cities: Erasure or Echo? The Urbanist Dilemma

Hiroshima's reconstruction balances memorializing the past with modern, forward-looking urban design. Learn how this city blends history and progress.

#HiroshimaRebuild, #UrbanDesign, #CityPlanning, #HistoricalPreservation, #ModernArchitecture

https://newsletter.tf/hiroshima-urban-design-past-and-future/

Hiroshima's rebuilding is a mix of remembering the past and building for the future, showing a new way for cities to grow.

#HiroshimaRebuild, #UrbanDesign, #CityPlanning, #HistoricalPreservation, #ModernArchitecture
https://newsletter.tf/hiroshima-urban-design-past-and-future/

The last century stored its atrocities in ink, paper, and film.
You couldn’t delete them quietly.
Today we document everything —
inside systems owned by people who profit from the chaos.
The internet made memory a battlefield.
The digital world makes history editable.
Don’t expect another 60 years of stability.
Hope for six.
If stability ever returns….

#DigitalMemory #HistoricalPreservation #InformationControl #NeverForget #MediaLiteracy

Northern Hotel Lobby: Architecture as Stage in the Contemporary Photographic Journey

https://gregurbano.com/2026/01/28/northern-hotel-lobby-architecture-as-stage-in-the-contemporary-photographic-journey/

Re: erasure at historical sites, national parks, etc. in the United States:

Reading this article about the removal of a slavery-related exhibit at one of the historic sites in Philly - at the house where George and Martha Washington trafficked in people they enslaved... and it has me thinking...

I wonder how hard it would be to take the old exhibit text that is removed, create a zine/brochure out of it, and just literally start handing out materials on the street outside of modified sites.

I know there are programs to save the original texts of exhibits/sites. Does anyone know if there are any programs working to provide that text on the ground, near the exhibits themselves?

Please share if you have any leads, and feel free to boost.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/24/philadelphia-sues-over-removal-of-slavery-exhibit-at-independence-national-historical-park-00745511

#Libraries #Exhibits #NationalParks #SaveOurData #HistoricalPreservation #Museums