Oblitarium & Oblitarium Lab

Virtual Museum & Editorial Laboratory of Intangible Cultural Heritage

What is Oblitarium?

Oblitarium is a living virtual museum born in 2016 on Facebook, where thousands of images, postcards, memories and conversations have been shared by a community spread across Tunisia and its diaspora.

What is Oblitarium Lab?

Oblitarium Lab is the museum’s editorial and curatorial space.
It transforms collective digital conversations into structured archives, exhibitions, publications and memory-objects.

What makes the project unique?

• A museum born from a living online community

• Conversations treated as heritage material

• Images used as triggers for memory

• People recognized as carriers of intangible heritage

UNESCO domains concerned

• Oral traditions and expressions

• Social practices and rituals

• Traditional know-how

• Collective and family memories

A participatory methodology

• Community-based contributions

• Preservation of original voices

• Editorial and curatorial work

• Open and free access

International dimension

The community extends across Tunisia, Europe and North America.
The model is transferable to other cultures and diasporas.

A living heritage

Oblitarium does not collect objects.
It preserves human presence, memory and transmission.