1980s
Spain’s Transition, Seen Through Its Leisure Time
An oral-history teaching project examines everyday life and leisure in Spain from 1968 to 1986, showing how recollections can complement—but not replace—institutional records.
Everyday life and the small things that shaped the rhythm of the day
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Contemporary
What a Museum Can Preserve About Food—and What It Cannot
Food brings together material, sensory, and social dimensions that cannot fit completely in a display case. Archives and museums document them through objects, images, texts, and context, without fully reconstructing an experience or proving habits for which evidence is lacking.
Contemporary
What a Design Archive Keeps Alive
Design archives preserve more than finished objects: they make it possible to study decisions, uses and visual languages within their cultural context.
1990s
What the Street Preserves About Everyday Life
Streets and squares can be read as settings for sociability, exchange and the circulation of information. Reconstructing their history, however, means attending to what documents reveal—and what they leave out—about different groups’ experiences.
2000s
The Comics That Were Never Meant to Last
Treating comics as cultural heritage changes how their pages are read: the physical object, its edition and the conditions needed to preserve it matter too.
2000s
When a Car Enters the Museum, Its Meaning Shifts
A displayed vehicle can prompt questions about technology, consumption and social life. Distinguishing verifiable facts from interpretation, however, requires documentation that the available evidence does not provide.
2000s
What everyday traces can tell us about school
Documents, images and testimony make it possible to study school as a setting for everyday life—provided we ask who produced them, what they show and what they leave out.
1990s
The Thread of Memory: Lorenzo Caprile and Haute Couture as Document
Beyond aesthetics, Lorenzo Caprile's atelier operates as a living archive. His trajectory allows examining fashion not as a static object, but as a social practice that records recent Spanish identity through technical precision and tailoring history.
1990s
The Album as Document: What the Archive Reveals and What It Silences
Analyzes how sticker albums, when moving from the domestic sphere to the institutional one, transform into historical sources. It examines the limitations of digital catalogs and visual documentation in identifying variants, highlighting that conservation does not always guarantee an understanding of the original cultural context.
1990s
The Container as Witness: Candy Boxes and the Memory of the Table
Analysis of how chromolithographed boxes of biscuits and sweets, preserved in museums such as the Madrid Museum of History, function as documents that separate commercial promotion from domestic practice.
2000s
A catalogue can identify collectibles without completing their history
A catalogue record for a 1907 collectible-album item shows what catalogues can establish—and where caution is needed: it identifies an object and places it in context, but cannot by itself document every variant or exchange practice.
Contemporary
The album as object and archival clue
Catalogues can help identify objects and variants, but they cannot by themselves tell us how items were gathered, exchanged, or preserved. CER.es records and museum documentation help distinguish what is known—and what remains to be investigated—about sticker albums.
