Sites tagged "Names"


Monument Against Fascism

Monument Against Fascism

This countermonument was designed to disappear.

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AIDS Memorial Quilt

AIDS Memorial Quilt

This deeply participatory traveling memorial looks to the future as it remembers the past.

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District Six Museum

District Six Museum

This community museum remembers a neighborhood that was erased by apartheid.

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Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace

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.

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The Herbert Baum Gedenkstein

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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Terror Háza Múzeum (House of Terror Museum)

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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Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes

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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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Museum

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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Parque de la Memoria

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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