We may locate civilisation in imagination and in the group of profoundly social ideas embodied in the arts and in science. We may locate these ideas in museum artefacts, objects and in written texts. ‘To whom does civilisation belong?’ is a question soon raised. Civilisation must be the legacy of everyone and museums must belong not just to curators, but to all of us and tell the stories of all of us. In Our Lives we invited people from one of the most culturally marginalised groups to unlock their inheritance and their hidden histories which have been overlaid by cultural norms. They created original culture based on the learned tradition. The Science Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Handel House Museum and the Foundling Museum worked together with Outside In Pathways and a group of people with learning disabilities from the London Borough of Bromley to share their objects and to carefully chart a journey through the history and ideas told by those collec0ons. In really sharing, something extraordinary and unpredictable was created and something that more mainstream society could not have produced so passionately or authentically. The project ran on Tuesdays for fifteen weeks during which time a group of younger people and a group of older people with learning disabilities learned about oral history techniques. Using digital still and Flip cameras, they worked with a radio journalist, documentary film maker and a psychotherapist, as well as oral history trainer, curatorial staff and museum educators. Mornings were spent learning about the museum and gallery collections and allowing those artefacts to evoke the older people’s memories. The afternoons were for remembering, storytelling and recording stories and this is their journey, their experience, our culture.