The EU co-funded project Preserving the Past, Securing the Future (PPSF) was coordinated by Liberation Route Europe, a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. Its partners were the Juno Beach Centre (France), Fondazione Campus Studi del Mediterraneo (Italy) and the sustainable tourism consultancy mascontour (Germany). Participants from museums, memorials and remembrance sites across Europe attended workshops in Normandy, Gdańsk and Lucca. There they exchanged experience and developed practical solutions covering the environmental, social, economic and governance aspects of sustainability.

The handbook combines findings from the project’s market analysis with good practice examples from across Europe, practical tools and templates, and recommendations for museums, memorials and interpretation centres. It gives guidance on community engagement, accessibility, climate action, fundraising, digital transformation and impact measurement. Remembrance tourism often relies on small institutions with limited resources, and the handbook offers them a ready-to-use reference for building sustainability into daily operations while keeping the sites’ educational role.

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