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The Timorese Resistance Archive and Museum (Portuguese: Arquivo e Museu da Resistência Timorense; Tetun: Arkivu & Muzeu Rezisténsia Timorense, AMRT) was opened on 7 December 2005 in Dili, East Timor. The inauguration was attended by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri and President Xanana Gusmão. The museum is housed in the former Portuguese Timor Court of Justice building, which was destroyed during the violence of 1999 following the independence referendum. The building was reconstructed and renovated by architect Tânia Bettencourt Correia and spans 1,325 m² with a 1,165 m² courtyard. The AMRT is affiliated with the Presidency of the Council of Ministers of Timor-Leste.
The AMRT's archival collection centers on internal resistance documents gathered from individuals throughout Timor-Leste since 2002, documenting the struggle for independence from Indonesian military occupation (1975–1999). Portugal's Mário Soares Foundation (FMS) has been a principal contributor to the conservation and digitization of the collection, delivering digital files to the AMRT since 2005. Documents are organized by year and accessible through an online database and search facility. Collections include personal papers of leading resistance figures such as José Ramos-Horta and Konis Santana, photographs, audio-visual materials, and official resistance movement correspondence and organizational documents. A permanent exhibition entitled 'To Resist is to Win' occupies the main space and depicts the history of armed and clandestine resistance using modern museological methods and audio-visual sources.
The AMRT holds rare audio-visual and documentary records of the Indonesian occupation period, including materials related to the 1991 Santa Cruz Massacre. The archive maintains a substantial collection of facsimile documents, photographs of Falintil leaders and troops, and records relating to the clandestine civilian resistance network. The collection also includes a guide to Jill Jolliffe's microfiche collection of Timor documents and comprehensive listings of resistance members' names and pseudonyms.
The AMRT is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 09:30–16:30. An online search facility provides access to digitized portions of the collection via the Casa Comum portal, which aggregates archival records from institutions across the Portuguese-speaking world. The AMRT's digitized collection is also accessible through the AMRT's own website. The archive welcomes researchers with an interest in East Timorese history and the independence movement.