MEMORY OF THE WORLD REGISTER
The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO, as corresponding to the selection criteria regarding world significance and outstanding universal value.
Photos by year: 1997 – 2001 – 2003 – 2005 – 2007 – 2009 – 2011 – 2013 – 2015
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DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE OF THE VICEROYALTY OF THE RIO DE LA PLATA
Country: Argentina – The collection ǀ More photos
COLLECTION OF NOTE MANUSCRIPTS AND FILM MUSIC OF COMPOSER ARAM KHACHATURIAN
Country: Armenia – The collection ǀ More photos
REGISTRY OF SLAVES OF THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN 1817-1834
Countries: Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Dominica, Jamaica, St Kitts and United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
SILVER MEN: WEST INDIAN LABOURERS AT THE PANAMA CANAL
Countries: Barbados, Jamaica, Panama, Saint Lucia, United Kingdom and United States of America – The collection ǀ More photos
THE ARCHIVES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN (1425-1797)
Country: Belgium – The collection ǀ More photos
ARCHIVES INSOLVENTE BOEDELSKAMER ANTWERPEN
Country: Belgium – The collection ǀ More photos
CATHEDRAL OF LA PLATA CHURCH MUSIC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Country: Bolivia – The collection ǀ More photos
DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE EMPEROR D. PEDRO II’S JOURNEYS IN BRAZIL AND ABROAD
Country: Brazil – The collection ǀ More photos
THE DISCOVERY OF INSULIN AND ITS WORLDWIDE IMPACT
Country: Canada – The collection ǀ More photos
QUEBEC SEMINARY COLLECTION, 1623-1800 (17TH-19TH CENTURIES)
Country: Canada – The collection ǀ More photos
LIBRI PROHIBITI: PERIODICALS OF CZECH AND SLOVAK SAMIZDAT IN THE YEARS 1948-1989
Country: Czech Republic – The collection ǀ More photos
THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF EGYPT’S COLLECTION OF MAMLUK QUR’AN MANUSCRIPTS
Country: Egypt – The collection ǀ More photos
ARCHIVES OF THE SKOLT SÁMI VILLAGE OF SUONJEL SUENJEL
Country: Finland – The collection ǀ More photos
CHÂTELET DE PARIS BANNER REGISTER FROM THE REIGN OF FRANCIS I (NATIONAL ARCHIVES, Y9)
Country: France – The collection ǀ More photos
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION OF SHOTA RUSTAVELI’S POEM “KNIGHT IN THE PANTHER’S SKIN”
Countries: Georgia and United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
DESCRIPTION OF GEORGIAN KINGDOM AND GEOGRAPHICAL ATLAS
Country: Georgia – The collection ǀ More photos
THE OLDEST MANUSCRIPTS PRESERVED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF GEORGIA
Country: Georgia – The collection ǀ More photos
CONSTRUCTION AND FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL AND THE TWO-PLUS-FOUR-TREATY OF 1990
Country: Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
LORSCH PHARMACOPOEIA (THE BAMBERG STATE LIBRARY, MSC.MED.1)
Country: Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
NEBRA SKY DISC
Country: Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
AUTOGRAPH OF H-MOLL-MESSE (MASS IN B MINOR) BY JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Country: Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
DOCUMENTS REPRESENTING THE REFORMATION INITIATED BY MARTIN LUTHER
Documents representing the beginning and the early development of the Reformation initiated by Martin Luther
Country: Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
THE GOLDEN LETTER OF THE BURMESE KING ALAUNGPHAYA TO KING GEORGE II OF GREAT BRITAIN
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Myanmar – The collection ǀ More photos
THE DERVENI PAPYRUS: THE OLDEST BOOK OF EUROPE
Country: Greece – The collection ǀ More photos
SEMMELWEIS’ DISCOVERY
Country: Hungary – The collection ǀ More photos
1703 CENSUS OF ICELAND
Country: Iceland – The collection ǀ More photos
SAIVA MANUSCRIPT IN PONDICHERRY
Country: India – The collection ǀ More photos
BABAD DIPONEGORO OR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CHRONICLE OF PRINCE DIPONEGORO (1785-1855)
A Javanese nobleman, Indonesian national hero and pan-Islamist
Countries: Indonesia and the Netherlands – The collection ǀ More photos
ASIAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE ARCHIVES
Country: Indonesia – The collection ǀ More photos
AL-TAFHIM LI AWA’IL SANA’AT AL-TANJIM
Country: Iran – The collection ǀ More photos
A COLLECTION OF SELECTED MAPS OF IRAN IN THE QAJAR ERA
Country: Iran – The collection ǀ More photos
AL-MASAALIK WA AL-MAMAALIK
Country: Iran and Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
KULLIYYĀT-I SAʽDI
Country: Iran – The collection ǀ More photos
ROTHSCHILD MISCELLANY
Country: Israel – The collection ǀ More photos
ALEPPO CODEX
Country: Israel – The collection ǀ More photos
ISAAC NEWTON’S THEOLOGICAL PAPERS
Country: Israel – The collection ǀ More photos
THE CODEX PURPUREUS ROSSANENSIS
Country: Italy – The collection ǀ More photos
MIDOKANPAKUKI: THE ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN DIARY OF FUJIWARA NO MICHINAGA
Country: Japan – The collection ǀ More photos
MATERIALS RELATED TO THE KEICHO-ERA MISSION TO EUROPE, JAPAN AND SPAIN
Countries: Japan and Spain – The collection ǀ More photos
RETURN TO MAIZURU PORT—DOCUMENTS
Return to Maizuru Port—Documents Related to the Internment and Repatriation Experiences of Japanese (1945-1956)
Country: Japan – The collection ǀ More photos
ARCHIVES OF TŌJI TEMPLE CONTAINED IN ONE-HUNDRED BOXES
Country: Japan – The collection ǀ More photos
ILSEONGNOK: RECORDS OF DAILY REFLECTIONS
Country: Republic of Korea – The collection ǀ More photos
NANJUNG ILGI: WAR DIARY OF ADMIRAL YI SUN-SIN
Country: Republic of Korea – The collection ǀ More photos
ARCHIVES OF SAEMAUL UNDONG (NEW COMMUNITY MOVEMENT)
Country: Republic of Korea – The collection ǀ More photos
THE ARCHIVES OF THE KBS SPECIAL LIVE BROADCAST “FINDING DISPERSED FAMILIES”
Country: Republic of Korea – The collection ǀ More photos
CONFUCIAN PRINTING WOODBLOCKS
Country: Republic of Korea – The collection ǀ More photos
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE LATE SULTAN OF KEDAH (1882-1943)
Country: Malaysia – The collection ǀ More photos
CODICES FROM THE OAXACA VALLEY
Country: Mexico – The collection ǀ More photos
OLD FONDS OF THE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE AT COLEGIO DE VIZCAÍNAS
Country: Mexico – The collection ǀ More photos
JUDICIAL FILES CONCERNING THE BIRTH OF A RIGHT
Judicial files concerning the birth of a right: the effective remedy as a contribution of the Mexican writ of amparo to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948
Country: Mexico – The collection ǀ More photos
THE WORK OF FRAY BERNARDINO DE SAHAGÚN (1499-1590)
Countries: Mexico and Italy – The collection ǀ More photos
KANJUR WRITTEN WITH 9 PRECIOUS STONES
Country: Mongolia – The collection ǀ More photos
MYAZEDI QUADRILINGUAL STONE INSCRIPTION
Country: Myanmar – The collection ǀ More photos
MANIFEST DER KOMMUNISTISCHEN PARTEI, DRAFT MANUSCRIPT PAGE AND DAS KAPITAL.
Erster Band, Karl Marx’s personal annotated copy
Countries: The Netherlands and Germany – The collection ǀ More photos
UTRECHT PSALTER
Country: The Netherlands – The collection ǀ More photos
SIR EDMUND HILLARY ARCHIVE
Country: New Zealand – The collection ǀ More photos
TRAVELLING REGISTRY OF THE CONQUISTADORS OR “BECERRO BOOK”
Country: Peru – The collection ǀ More photos
THE CONFEDERATION OF WARSAW OF 28TH OF JANUARY 1573: RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE GUARANTEED
Country: Poland – The collection ǀ More photos
FILES AND LIBRARY OF THE UNITY OF THE BRETHREN
Country: Poland – The collection ǀ More photos
THE BOOK OF HENRYKÓW
Country: Poland – The collection ǀ More photos
JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF VASCO DA GAMA TO INDIA, 1497-1499
Country: Portugal – The collection ǀ More photos
THE LAURENTIAN CHRONICLE 1377
Country: Russian Federation – The collection ǀ More photos
LLIBRE DEL SINDICAT REMENÇA (1448)
Country: Spain – The collection ǀ More photos
ASTRID LINDGREN ARCHIVES
Country: Sweden – The collection ǀ More photos
INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES
Country: Sweden – The collection ǀ More photos
THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL: CLAUDE NOB’S LEGACY
Country: Switzerland – The collection ǀ More photos
THE KING RAM KHAMHAENG INSCRIPTION
Country: Thailand – The collection ǀ More photos
THE WORKS OF IBN SINA IN THE SÜLEYMANIYE MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
Country: Turkey – The collection ǀ More photos
AUTOGRAPH FIRST WORLD WAR DIARY OF FIELD MARSHAL SIR DOUGLAS HAIG, 1914-1919
Country: United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
MAGNA CARTA, ISSUED IN 1215
Country: United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
HISTORIC ETHNOGRAPHIC RECORDINGS (1898 – 1951) AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY
Country: United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
ARTHUR BERNARD DEACON (1903-27) COLLECTION MS 90-98
Countries: Vanuatu and United Kingdom – The collection ǀ More photos
COLOMBEIA: GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA’S ARCHIVES
Country: Venezuela – The collection ǀ More photos
COLLECTION OF LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Country: Venezuela – The collection ǀ More photos
WOODBLOCKS OF NGUYEN DYNASTY
Country: Vietnam – The collection ǀ More photos
UNRWA PHOTO AND FILM ARCHIVES OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES
Organization: UNRWA – The collection ǀ More photos
