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Living Legacy Initiative

Unlocking the value of the past to help shape the future.

The Living Legacy Initiative is Iron Mountain’s commitment to preserve and make accessible cultural and historical information and artifacts. Every day, we protect our customers’ most vital assets and information. The Living Legacy Initiative extends that same care and expertise to our communities through partnerships with nonprofit organisations.

We work with our partners to go beyond preserving the past to ensure that historical information is shared through engaging learning experiences. Our partnerships enable virtual tours of cultural sites across the globe, provide educational content related to important historical figures and events, and offer digital access to artifacts that would not be accessible otherwise.

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Partnerships built for impact

Preserving cultural heritage information and artifacts and ensuring they are accessible to current and future generations can help foster inclusion, understanding, and a sense of belonging across our global communities.

Our partnerships are founded on the belief that collaboration enhances our collective potential. Similar to our approach with customers, we invest time in understanding each partner's distinct challenges and objectives. This insight allows us to utilise our extensive experience in safeguarding and managing physical and digital assets and our global reach to maximise our impact.

Our impact

We are committed to building deep relationships with our partners so that our support can have maximum impact. We know we have extensive experience in protecting and managing data and physical assets, which we can leverage to benefit our partners through in-kind services. We believe we have a responsibility to create social value in the communities in which we operate. We are committed to pursuing that responsibility and being a helpful member of our communities worldwide.

Historical and cultural information is a record of who and what we are as a global community. We must preserve these treasures and ensure that they are accessible before they are lost due to destruction or the passage of time. Iron Mountain strives to support organisations that create a link between the public and cultural, historical and educational legacies. To lose a piece of our culture or heritage is to lose a piece of ourselves.

Watch the video to learn about our partnership with Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky, US.

Journey to Equal Rights

We partner with selected nonprofit organisations on projects with an equal rights component.

As we continue the ongoing fight to achieve social equality for all, the history of the origins of these movements remains largely untold. Through virtual exploration of the places that ignited movements for social justice, the Journey to Equal Rights program amplifies the stories of activism that continue to shape our world today.

Our long-time partner CyArk, a nonprofit that digitally records, safeguards and archives world heritage sites, created the Journey to Equal Rights collection through the support provided by the Living Legacy Initiative. Join CyArk and Iron Mountain on a virtual journey to five places that have been pivotal in our ongoing struggle to achieve social equality. Take a 3D guided tour and discover stories of resistance and the fight for change that have propelled these causes forward over the last century. Browse the accompanying lesson plans funded by Iron Mountain that can be used by educators and students to learn more about these important moments in our history.

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Current Living Legacy Partners

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Lincoln Presidential Foundation

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation and Iron Mountain are continuing our partnership through the project “Warning Signs: Lincoln’s Response to Rising Threats to Freedom, Justice, and Democracy” which utilises resources from the library and the online Papers of Abraham Lincoln hosted by Iron Mountain.
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Pauli Murray Center for History & Social Justice

The Pauli Murray Center for History & Social Justice is also the childhood home of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Iron Mountain’s Living Legacy program funded the installation of near field communication technology at the childhood home/center and funded a staff position focused on creating educational content.
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National WWII museum

The National WWII Museum is a long-time partner of Iron Mountain. The most recent project funded by Iron Mountain is “The Real Image of War” exhibit that will explore the supposed objectivity of documentary photography, and examine the motives of the men behind the camera tasked with creating a visual record of WWII.
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Military Women's Memorial

Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) and Living Legacy are partnering with the Military Women’s Memorial to digitise the audio recordings of the Memorial's oral history collection so these stories can be accessed and studied by future generations.
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The Tulalip Foundation

Living Legacy is supporting the creation of seven travel exhibitions on the Tulalip Indian School, a boarding school that once was on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State. The "Between Two Worlds" exhibit tells the story of how Native children in boarding schools were not permitted to be Native and were not accepted as part of the white world either.
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British Film Institute

Iron Mountain is supporting the restoration and sharing of the Stoll Pictures’ Sherlock Holmes Film collection of 45 episodes and two feature films. This complete set has been previously inaccessible and needs some restoration which will allow film aficionados around the world to enjoy this collection once again.
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People's Palace Projects

People's Palace Projects and the Living Legacy Initiative are partnering to return the Sacred Cave of Kamukuwaká to the Xingu Territory in the Brazilian rainforest and to share the story of the loss and recovery of the cave to a global audience.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Iron Mountain is proud to support the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the discovery and digitisation of archival materials from the Nuremberg Trial U.S. Prosecutors, which helped prosecute Nazi leadership after WWII. Nearly 300,000 pages containing post-war documentation will be organised and digitised that share the atrocities of the Holocaust and set the statge for international law.
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CyArk

CyArk and Iron Mountain have partnered since 2015 on the digitisation of cultural heritage sites throughout the world and the creation of 3D virtual tours and online lesson plans to bring those sites to students. Projects in 2021 included: National Women’s Rights Historical Park, MLK Jr. National Park, Angel Island, Stonewall Inn, and César Chávez National Monument. Our most recent project, the Journey to Equal Rights, amplifies the stories of activism that shape our world today.
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Appalshop

Living Legacy is supporting the secure, climate-controlled storage of Appalshop's one-of-a-kind Archive documenting the life and history of Appalachia. The Archive was damaged by an accelerated 1,000 year flood event. Iron Mountain's Cold Storage Facility is hosting Appalshop's Archive and providing support for a more robust online archive as the assets are cleaned and digitised.
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University of Central Florida

Living Legacy Initiative is supporting the Parramore project at the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities. The mapping and digitisation project offers a unique perspective on how urban areas with primarily Black residents fell victim to urban development and how that affected the economic vitality of the neighborhoods.

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