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DESIGNING FOR COLLECTIVE MEMORY: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Author(s) -
Appelbaum Ralph
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
design management journal (former series)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1948-7169
pISSN - 1045-7194
DOI - 10.1111/j.1948-7169.1996.tb00624.x
Subject(s) - humanity , tragedy (event) , the holocaust , power (physics) , history , aesthetics , sociology , law , criminology , political science , art , social science , physics , quantum mechanics
IN THIS MUSEUM, the stories of individuals have been woven into the larger saga of a crime against humanity, and we become witnesses to a great human tragedy. Ralph Appelbaum shares the dilemmas he and his associates confronted in developing these exhibits and the design decisions they made to create an experience of extraordinary power, one that carefully balances facts and emotions.