The project "MainAge" is a cooperation project that uses material culture designed for children's care and use, to investigate contemporary European childhood. It aims to recover and value the recent memory of childhood (communicated through objects, images and oral history) as a system of transmitting and sharing local values and cultural identity inside the European Culture Heritage. The project has an EU dimension through fostering the cooperation between cultural professionals and artists in the field of cultural tangible and intangible heritage. Therefore, the project shall provide a common working platform for exchanging research methodologies, exhibition techniques, know-how on collecting and displaying the childhood culture.The specific objectives are: setting up a collection of Childhood memories, by means of anthropological field research and interactive workshops; creating a Virtual Museum of Childhood on an integrated multinational data base accessible worldwide; developing and promoting a comprehensive methodology on documenting, analyzing, interpreting and communicating childhood culture, based on knowledge transfer among the organizers; involving volunteers in the activities of the project (documentation and practice); disseminating the methodology of collecting oral memory and creating a virtual museum, disseminating the results of the project in other EU cultural areas within a specific research network.The project is addressed to researchers in social sciences, educators, curators, children and elderly people, volunteers. The results of the project (exhibitions, data base, virtual museum) are addressing a wide range of public, covering all ages. Childhood heritage means material values as well as intangible creation, differing from one cultural area to another. Studying and displaying this patrimony, as a coherent source of nowadays European mentalities and cultural identities brings added values to the international anthropological research.