In the context of changes which Brazilian Nursing had passed, the Brazilian Nursing Association - ABEn, was and it is the protagonist in the scenery of commitment with the category and the production and dissemination of knowledge. The ABEn, as nurse´s representative entity, leaded this process, and in this article, launches a look at with attention to evaluate the past, understanding the present and, more than everything, drawing possibilities for the future. In this perspective, the project of preservation of the pile and historical rescue of the association, in partnership with the NUPHEBRAS/EEAN, is a historical mark that is coated of relevance for the next generation of nurses. In comprising the duty of conserving its Documentation Center, and to make it available to ABEn´s associates as well to the new generations, ABEn reiterates its compromise with the history of Brazilian Nursing, giving an expected example.
History of Nursing; Societies, Nursing; Nursing