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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — A Dialogue with Memory
Author(s) -
Freed James Ingo
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
curator: the museum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2151-6952
pISSN - 0011-3069
DOI - 10.1111/j.2151-6952.1995.tb01044.x
Subject(s) - the holocaust , exhibition , container (type theory) , context (archaeology) , visual arts , sociology , media studies , history , art , political science , law , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering
This article describes the author's personal/professional experience in designing the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a building that must “fit” in the context of the National Mall, express the spirit of the Holocaust, and become a permanent, living memorial. “The [building] did not pose the familiar problem of the container and the contained. This [must be] a building where the contained (the historical exhibition) works on the container (the architectural shell) and where the container has to join with the contained.”