Fundación Internacional Carlos Gardel

Fundación Internacional Carlos Gardel is a foundation based in Buenos Aires, Argentina working on heritage, arts & culture.

The Fundación Internacional Carlos Gardel is a non-profit foundation based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was created to preserve and promote the legacy of tango singer and composer Carlos Gardel, drawing on the archive of documents, photographs, films and recordings inherited from the artist's heirs. The foundation works to remaster and reissue this material with new technologies, and runs a public website with a chronology of Gardel's artistic life, his discography from 1912 to 1935, a biography and a virtual tour. Its stated aim is to strengthen national identity and cultural heritage among current and future generations through Gardel's figure. Gardel's work was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme in 2003.