Memory(ies) in search of a place is an exhibition that portrays the Difficult Heritage (Macdonald, 2009) of Portugal's fascist and colonialist past, based on work carried out with ten testimonies from the antifascist resistance in Porto. The project proposes a holistic view of the role of oral testimony and the treatment of the material culture of this collective memory, in which each of the anti-fascist resistance fighters recounts an episode of their struggle against the dictatorship based on an object chosen by them. The presentation of this participatory collection acts as a mediator between their experiences and the public. Through the presentation of these memory objects, the aim is to challenge new intergenerational dialogues that find in a space such as the museum a desobedient workshop in defence of Freedom, Democracy and the rights won with the Revolution of 25th April 1974.

This exhibition is part of the doctoral thesis entitled ‘Memory and Project: subsidies for an activist museum of anti-fascism in Porto’, from the 3rd cycle in Heritage Studies, Museology, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, authored by Luís Monteiro.