Your archive, your memories, our history
Since the Nakba, Palestinian archives have been subjected to looting, loss and distortion. With every wave of displacement and colonisation, documents have been stolen, photographs confiscated, libraries burned, and thousands of stories erased from collective memory. These crimes continue today with even greater intensity as Israel destroys Gaza’s cultural centres and libraries – a systematic effort to annihilate any representation of Palestinian culture or history. In this context, an archive is not a luxury. It is sovereignty. It is a reclamation of our history from colonial control.
Since 2016, the Palestinian Museum has developed a public, independent digital archive – built from within Palestine and powered by contributions from individuals, families and institutions, locally and in the diaspora. It contains hundreds of thousands of items – photographs, recordings, documents, audiovisual content – all catalogued, digitised and published on an open-access bilingual digital platform that we strive to keep fully accessible and relevant to contemporary research.
Your donation supports digitisation, documentation, description and technical development of further collections. It also enables us to train communities in archiving their own history and to provide trustworthy content that challenges falsification and strengthens Palestinian presence in global knowledge spaces.
