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A pictorial exhibition of collections and items listed on the Memory of the World Register, as well as a selection from projects, contributing to preserving the documentary heritage of humanity will be displayed on the fences of UNESCO's Fontenoy Building from 17 October to 14 November 2012.
The Memory of the World Programme was launched by UNESCO in 1992 in order to protect precious documentary heritage items that were recorded from the beginning of human existence up to the present. It includes events and discoveries that have transformed the world. It tells of their triumphs and finer moments as well as the horrors they have experienced. Documentary heritage is recorded on audiotapes, woven into tapestries or handwritten in a diary. It serves to transmit the histories of slaves or social group that no longer exist to provide a better understanding of the world’s cultural diversity.