The exhibition offers a journey through the last ten years of Francoism and the collective projects that started to take shape with the death of the dictator, at a key moment for the country’s social and political future.

With a plural and critical perspective, the display addresses basic questions such as the institutional continuity of Francoism, the fight for freedoms, feminism, LGBTI rights, freedom of expression, the role of exiles, the mobilisation of workers and the desire for modernisation and becoming European.

A route around history, at La Model

The display takes up the fourth and fifth galleries of La Model, with a set of audiovisual installations, personal accounts, historical documents and symbolic elements that offer an insight into the complexity of a decisive period for the contemporary development of our country.

In the fifth gallery of La Model, visitors can get an idea of the agony of the dictator, the repression at the end of the regime and the international reactions that typified those days of change. In the fourth gallery, the question that forms the title of the exhibition finds answers in the presentation of social and political projects that were being developed in the mid-60s, the intention being for them to become a reality following the dictator’s end. These collective projects are explained in fifteen subsections that allow us to see the conquest of democracy after the Francoist dictatorship as a broad and plural social and cultural process, with nothing written at the outset.

The exhibition includes 185 documents, mainly images and graphic documents, with photographs of different figures and key political moments that stand out, a section devoted to the front pages of national and international newspapers and other significant documents, such as fragments from sentences, manifestos and ideas from outstanding movements in the recent history of the country. There are also 15 audiovisual clips, including videos from the No-Do, library images and pieces from the US programme Saturday Night Live.

The items on display come from various places, such as public archives, personal documents and materials from the Fundació Internacional Olof Palme. The Directorate for Heritage at the Institute of Culture has also acquired discontinued publications.