alternatiivsed eluviisid ja vastupanu igapäevaelus alternatiivsed hariduse vormid
autoritaarsete / totalitaarsete režiimide tagakiusamise all kannatanud
avangard, neo-avangard
demokraatlik opositsioon
emigratsioon/eksiil
etnilised liikumised
film filosoofilised/teoreetilised liikumised järelevalve
kaunid kunstid keskkonnakaitse
kirjandus ja kirjanduskriitika kriitiline teadus
liikumine inimõiguste eest meediakunst muusika
naiste liikumine
noorte kultuur partei dissidendid
popkultuur
rahuliikumised rahvakultuur rahvuslikud liikumised
samizdat ja tamizdat
sõltumatu ajakirjandus
südametunnistest lähtuvalt
teaduslik kriitika
teatri- ja etenduskunst
tsensuur underground kultuur
usuline aktiivsus
visuaalkunst
vähemusliikumised ühiskondlikud liikumised
üliõpilasliikumine
Kollektsioonis on teoseid autoreilt, kes kandsid endas nõukogude okupatsioonile eelnenud kunsti vaimsust. Mitmed neist olid nõukogude ajal represseeritud, hiljem ei õnnestunud neil leida ametlikku tunnustust või said neist kunstiuuendajad, kes hakkasid vastu valitsenud sotsialistlikule realismile ning nõukogulikule temaatikale. Kogus on ka üksikuid teoseid, mis kujutavad otseselt keelatud objekte (vangilaager, vangid), kuid peamiselt väljendub kogus esindatud autorite vastuhakk nõukogude režiimile loomelaadis.
The Igor Cașu Collection represents above all an alternative collection of archival materials about the history of the Soviet Regime in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR), originating from major public archives in the Republic of Moldova that preserve such documents without granting free access to them. The founder of this collection had privileged access to the items that are now part of his collection in the short time span when he acted as vice-president of the Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Regime in Moldova in 2010. In contrast to the public archives, the Igor Cașu Collection, which also includes an oral history interviews section, is shared with fellow researchers.
The digital collection of the Oral History Center contains more than 2000 interviews with twentieth-century witnesses, which are divided into different themes and topics, thus presenting a unique collection of professionally created interviews and memories, many of which are related to the theme of cultural opposition.
The Ion Monoran Collection documents the intellectual profile of one of the leaders of the underground cultural movements in the Banat, who, thanks to his ability to catalyse the action of the crowd gathered in the streets of Timişoara on 16 December 1989, became one of the figures who incontestably made a mark on the Romanian Revolution.
The Irina Margareta Nistor Private Collection includes a series of written documents, together with a few dozen VHS video cassettes preserving a small part of the Western films that were introduced clandestinely into Romania between 1985 and 1989, to be translated and dubbed and then distributed on video cassettes (semi)clandestinely. This collection epitomises a popular culture phenomenon without any equivalent in Eastern Europe, which emerged in Romania as a reaction to the reduction of the official programme broadcast on television channels to just two hours per day and to news broadcasts about the activity of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the leadership of the Romanian Communist Party.