Questions and answers.

Every capsule has a passport on this site: its occasion, its owner, the days of collecting, sealing and opening, and how letters are collected. Letters are written online; before the sealing they are printed — anonymous, or with the signature of an author who signed — and sealed into the capsule under wax, and on the opening day each returns to its author by email. Memora's public capsules are the project's own use of the format. A capsule from the catalogue is the vessel in which its owner receives it.

Choose a capsule that is open for letters on the Public Capsules page and write your letter in its passport. Writing a letter into an open public capsule is free; if taking part in a capsule is paid, its passport says so.

An open capsule takes letters from anyone who visits its passport. A private one is reached only with the link and password its owner shares, and its passport does not appear in the public list.

You write it here, on the site, and it is kept in electronic form. While the capsule is open for messages, you can take it back. Before the sealing we print every message — with its number in the capsule, and with a signature if its author signed it — and seal them into the capsule under wax; the capsule's owner may add letters on paper and objects of their own. From that moment your message has two lives. The printed page stays in the capsule for good: it cannot be changed or taken out, and after the opening it becomes part of the work. The electronic copy stays with us and returns to you by email on the opening day. You can have it deleted at any time — but then there will be nothing to return.

Until the opening day, your whole message is read only by Memora's keepers and by the capsule's owner, if the owner seals the capsule themselves: before the sealing they receive all the messages for printing. When Memora seals the capsule, the owner does not see the messages until the opening day. Your message is printed untouched, with its number. It is anonymous by default: if you sign it, the signature is printed under it. Your email and profile name never reach the paper, and only the keepers have access to the database where they are linked to your message. Before printing, the keepers read every message: one that cannot be printed is not printed — we explain why to its author, if there is an email to write to, and it can be rewritten while the capsule is still open.

Until the capsule is sealed, yes — write to us and we will withdraw your message entirely and delete your details. After the sealing, the printed page stays in the capsule: it cannot be changed, taken out or opened before its day, and that permanence is the whole point. The electronic copy of your message and your email we will delete at your first request, at any time. Only remember: then, on the opening day, there will be nothing for us to return to you.

Short fragments, yes — anonymously. Taking part means the capsule's owner (for Memora's public capsules, Memora itself) may quote fragments of messages and read them aloud — at the sealing, at the opening, in materials about the capsule — without the author's name or signature and without details that could identify them. Memora may do so at any time, the owner once they have the texts; if the capsule is sold, this right and the duty to quote only this way pass to the new owner. Your whole message — as text, or a video where it is read in full — is published only with your consent: Memora asks you by email about each specific case, and a message with no email is never published in full. You can ask us at info@memoracapsule.com not to quote your message; that applies to Memora's quotations, but a right that has passed to another owner cannot be withdrawn.

After the opening, the capsule with all its messages becomes a finished work. The printed pages stay inside — they are part of the art object. Every message is open: the capsule's owner can read it, and if the capsule is shown at an exhibition, so can its visitors. The capsule may stay in Memora's collection, be exhibited, or one day change hands. Your page carries the number of the message and not your name — unless you sign it: then the signature is printed under the message, and everyone who reads the page will see it. But what the text itself says may point to you, so decide which details to leave in. The same goes for a photo: it is printed with the message.

The sealing and the opening take place in public and are filmed. Anonymous fragments of messages may be read aloud on camera — without names, signatures or details that could identify their authors. A message is read in full only with its author's consent.

To return your message to you on the opening day, and to write to you about the capsule you wrote into — for instance, to explain why a message cannot be printed.

Anyone aged 16 or over. You can write in any language.

Because you see today as you will never see it again. Over time, memory rewrites it: smooths it over, explains it, gives it meaning after the fact. And the world changes so fast that we do not always notice what is happening to us. A message in the capsule keeps this moment as you are living it now. And you do it not alone, but beside other people living through the same thing. Time is the material here, and the waiting is what gives the words their weight.

Each capsule has its own character. We don't make duplicates — the wood, the texture, the ornament, the engraving, the emotion are all unique. When the work is finished, we give the capsule a name, acknowledging that it has become an independent object with its own life and story.

Anything that holds meaning for you: letters, photographs, small keepsakes. Memora is made for the things that carry memory. The exceptions are food, electronics, medication, and anything that might damage the capsule or its other contents.

There is no right or wrong here. This is a space for sincerity and personal meaning. Start with one letter, a single photo, or a note to your future self. A capsule doesn't have to be filled all at once — memories accumulate gradually, and that is part of the point.

Memora seals capsules for no more than 15 years — a term the form and materials are sure to hold. With careful keeping, the form and its materials last well beyond it.