The University of Navarra Museum begins in March Narrating so as not to forget,a project that seeks to record personal accounts of the impact of Covid-19 in Navarra. Its main goal is to safeguard the current collective experience for future generations, placing value on the story as tool for the emotional integration of the facts and their interpretations.

As Dailey Fernandez, a graduate of the Museum's Master in Curatorial Studies at the Museum and curator of project, among the goals of the proposal is "to offer the tool of narrative with a healing purpose to deal with a complex reality and the traumas it has provoked". It is also intended to "highlight personal narratives and provide a channel for them, as well as to collect and archive the diverse experiences of the community, information that can be very useful for current or subsequent programs of study on how this health crisis has been experienced at all levels: economic, social, psychological and emotional".

 The initiative invites all people living in Navarra, of different ages (from 14 years old), backgrounds and sectors, to share their experiences in the form of stories, which can be accompanied by images, videos and audio files. All the people who want to participate can do it through the website of the project. The testimonies received will be available to the general public and to research. Their maximum length is 4,000 characters and they can be sent in Spanish or in Basque, signed or anonymously. Along with Dailey Fernández, the team includes Nieves Acedo, director of Museum Programs; María Ozcoidi, coordinator; and Inés Olza, mediator and expert in narratives.

Narrating so as not to forget uses the methodology of storytellingfollowing in the footsteps of other similar projects that have already been carried out in the cultural field for different purposes, "to build bridges between cultural institutions, museums and their respective communities," says Fernández. "The exercise of writing is privileged for all that it entails on an emotional and psychological level. But there is also the possibility of sharing images to complement the story," he emphasizes. Through these stories, we can "feel accompanied and blur distances or differences of all kinds subject in the midst of a status that is common to all of us. It is about giving voice and offering a channel.