Living Legacy Initiative

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 utilizes resources from the library and the online Papers of Abraham Lincoln hosted by Iron Mountain.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Iron Mountain is proud to support the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for the discovery and digitization 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 organized and digitized that share the atrocities of the Holocaust and set the statge for international law.

CyArk and Iron Mountain have partnered since 2015 on the digitization 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.

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 digitized.

Living Legacy Initiative is supporting the Parramore project at the University of Central Florida’s College of Arts and Humanities. The mapping and digitization 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.