We are a consortium member of the project ECHOES leading its work package on City Museums and Multiple Pasts. ECHOES addresses a pressing dilemma at the heart of contemporary Europe: the fact that while the history of empires and colonialism undoubtedly constitutes a shared European past, this past remains strangely silent in official narratives about Europe’s ‘heritage’. We argue that the EU urgently needs not just to acknowledge this phenomenon but to reflexively and progressively include it at the heart of its identity.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770248.
