Sites
AIDS Memorial Quilt
This deeply participatory traveling memorial looks to the future as it remembers the past.
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Bruce Lee Statue
In Bruce Lee, a coalition of young Bosnians hoped to find a hero whom all residents of divided Mostar could share.
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Choeung Ek, Center of Genocide Crimes
At this mass-grave site, the demands of memory compete with mass tourism and political concerns.
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Comarca Balide Prison
This prison and torture center was transformed into a civic space and human rights center.
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Constitution Hill
In an inspired move, South Africa built its Constitutional Court on the site of a notorious former prison where human rights had long been denied.
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District Six Museum
This community museum remembers a neighborhood that was erased by apartheid.
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Halabja Monument to Kurdish victims of gas massacre
Designed to commemorate the victims of a devastating gas attack, the Halabja Monument now lies in ruins.
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum
This diverse and wide-ranging site is as much about the future as it is about the past.
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Irish Hunger Memorial
This patch of Irish countryside transplanted to lower Manhattan was designed to warn against future famines.
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Maison des Esclaves (Slave House)
A global symbol of the Atlantic slave trade, many historians doubt that this site had much to do with the slave trade at all.
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Monument Against Fascism
This countermonument was designed to disappear.
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Oradour-sur-Glane
Destroyed by the SS, the town itself has been preserved as a memorial.
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Paine Memorial
Families of victims worked closely with artists to create commemorative mosaics for this memorial.
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Parque de la Memoria
This windswept park along the River Plata is a venue for artists’ tributes to victims of state terrorism in Argentina.
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Sarajevo Roses
Quiet yet jarring, the Sarajevo Roses transform the scars of war themselves into memorials.
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Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery
Designed in close consultation with survivors, this site combines civic and sacred space.
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Terror Háza Múzeum (House of Terror Museum)
This sensational and ultramodern museum is celebrated as an overdue act of reckoning by some Hungarians, a work of propaganda by others.
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The Herbert Baum Gedenkstein
This communist-era memorial to an anti-Nazi resistance group was altered to create a more complicated narrative.
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Trojan Horse Memorial
Two separate memorials have been built to commemorate this 1985 massacre.
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Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes
Initially designed to help legitimize the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, this site has evolved into a genuine, if complicated, memorial site.
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Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace
This site, which had been, variously, a family home, an intellectual hub, and a notorious secret police detention center, is now a peace memorial.
