Our Record, in Fifteen Dates
A new publication with a long paper trail. Every line below is a dated record written by somebody else — a university, a UN body, a city museum, a design institute, an art fair.
Cultural Heritage Online is published by OASIS Tech LLC. The archive behind it began in 1998 and went online in 2001 as Beni Culturali Online. What follows is not our own account of ourselves: each entry links to the source that says it, so you can check every one of them.
| Date | What happened | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 14 October 2002 | The School of the Art Institute of Chicago grants its institutional patronage to our predecessor, Beni Culturali Online.the patron’s own 2003 page, preserved | link |
| 24 April 2004 | Ca’ Pesaro, Venice opens Shozo Shimamoto. Dal Gutai a Proxima 1955–2004 (to 30 May). The museum’s archive: “Realizzata in collaborazione con l’Associazione bb.cc. ONLUS e curata da Guglielmo Di Mauro.”the museum’s own archive — Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia | link |
| 25 April 2004 | “Volo Radente” — Shozo Shimamoto’s first helicopter action painting, organised by our association and curated by Arch. Luigi De Marchi, as a pre-event to the 2005 Venice Biennale.the Shōzō Shimamoto Association, live biography | link |
| 30 September 2004 | UNESCO publishes our association in its official Culture directory — Directoire d’organisations, record 23374, with address, telephone, e-mail and website.a page on a UNESCO domain, dated | link |
| 10 June 2007 | “Bottle Crash” — Shimamoto’s bottle-throwing performance in the Chiostro di San Nicolò, Venice, presented by the Rosanna Chiessi Archive and the Fondazione Morra “in collaborazione con l’Associazione Beni Culturali online.it e la Città di Venezia”.a contemporary press release (undo.net) and Exibart | link |
| 15 November 2007 | ITA — Itinerari Turistici Artistici: “12 months × 12 artists × 12 locations”, art in commercial premises across all 44 municipalities of the Province of Venice.our own 2008 record, preserved | link |
| 27 November 2007 | We filmed and streamed live the international conference on contemporary scenography with Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont (Titanic, James Bond), Auditorium Santa Margherita, Venice.USITT Sightlines, vol. 48 no. 1, January 2008 | link |
| 31 August 2012 | “Mirko Vucetich: dal Futurismo al Novecento” opens at the Castello Inferiore di Marostica (to 14 October) — about 70 works, organised by ABCOnlus with Pro Marostica and the Comune di Marostica.Exibart, arte.it, culturaeculture.it, La Voce di Romagna | link |
| 26 November 2012 | “Romagna Liberty” at the Biblioteca Aurelio Saffi, Forlì (to 31 December) — “a cura di Andrea Speziali, è organizzata dall’Associazione ABCOnlus con il sostegno del Comune di Forlì”Casabella, Forlì Today, Emilia Romagna Turismo | link |
| 28 September 2017 | “Marco Paolini — Tecno Filò”, co-organised by ABCOnlus with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Altino.the event record and La Nuova Venezia, 24 September 2017 | link |
| 23 October 2020 | Premio Palazzo Spinelli, category “Research and development of new technologies applied to cultural heritage” — “for the association’s twenty years of commitment to new technologies for cultural heritage”.the awarding body’s own page | link |
| 28 November 2021 | CHO.earth goes live: a 3D heritage platform with digital ownership, auctions, augmented reality and virtual fairs — built on the same archive by our technical company OASIS Srl.the domain record (21 April 2021) and the site itself | link |
| 28 December 2023 | SIGNED, the magazine of the Hong Kong Design Institute, publishes the feature story “CHO.earth: Hybrid Heritage Preservation with a Payout” (issue 30, Digital Heritage).the design institute’s own page | link |
| May 2024 | Media Partner at the Salone del Restauro in Ferrara — the fair’s own site lists our association under the category Media Partners (stands also in 2019 and 2022).the fair’s own website | link |
| Today | Our Facebook group — Art Nouveau, Italian Liberty, Belle Epoque, Modernism, Beaux Arts, Art Deco — passes 843,200 members, publishing to CHO every week.the group’s own page · figures checked 13 October 2026 | link |
One line. Five institutions, five countries, one thread: Chicago in 2002, UNESCO in 2004, a Venetian civic museum in 2004, a Hong Kong design institute in 2023 — and an audience of 843,200 today.
Also on the record
- UNWTO — affiliate member of the World Tourism Organization. (No verified date of admission: the affiliation is stated without a year.)
- Among our clients and advertisers, 2002–2009: Peggy Guggenheim, Mart Rovereto, Palazzo Pitti, Comune di Milano, Musei Civici di Venezia, MiArt, ArteFiera, Electa, Ca’ Pesaro, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro. (Our own 2009 list; each relationship to be confirmed individually.)
- Promovetro — Consorzio del Vetro Artistico di Murano: on our client lists of 2007 and 2009, and four co-branded articles published 2005–2013.
- The fairs: bbcc EXPO, Venice, 1–3 December 2011; Salone del Restauro, Ferrara, 2019, 2022 and 2024.
- Two works from the 2007 performance received digital certificates on the WAX blockchain in 2022.
Every line above links to the institution that wrote it — not to a page of ours. Where a record rests on our own archive, we say so. Where we cannot date something, we leave the date out rather than invent one. If you find an error, write to us and we will correct it: our corrections policy is public, and it is the same standard we apply to everything we publish.
What we do now
The archive holds 16,800+ heritage places in 6,300+ cities (measured 8 October 2026), each with coordinates, verified opening information and editorial context, in English. We publish a magazine, itineraries, and partnership pages for destinations and brands. And we are a registered independent journalistic publication: ISSN 3144-1866, with a public masthead, editorial guidelines and an ownership statement.
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