Blog entries tagged museums

Don’t Misuse Past Atrocities for Political Purposes

Trainee — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:05:24 +0100

Source: Global Perspectives; April 7, 2010

STRASBOURG (IDN) - Gross human rights violations in the past continue to affect relations in today’s Europe. In some cases the right lessons have been learned; genuine knowledge of history has facilitated understanding, tolerance and trust between individuals and peoples. However, some serious atrocities are denied or trivialised, which has created new tensions.

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Roundup: Historians' Take

Trainee — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:50:36 +0100

Source: HNN; 12 March, 2010

While on a trip to the east coast from my home in Berkeley I get the news that yet another Native American site on California's northwest coast has been vandalized. Between the 1780s - when Thomas Jefferson dug up a huge cemetery containing a thousand human remains - and the 1970s, when the Red Power movement began to put amateur and professional archaeologists on the defensive, the discovery and excavation of native skeletons was promoted as good sport, entRead More...

Muslim museum offers forum for educators

Trainee — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:11:52 +0100

Source: Clarionledger; March 8th 2010

When Chris Harth, director of global studies at St. Andrew's Episcopal School, attended a Chicago education conference three years ago, he met someone who told him about the International Museum of Muslim Cultures. It's an educational resource he didn't know existed. He was stunned to find out it was in Jackson. Now Harth is working with the museum to develop educational resources that can be used in Mississippi schools. And on Tuesday, the museum Read More...

Dreaming about museums

Trainee — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:53:11 +0100

Source: Todays Zaman, March 2nd 2010

Nowadays my dream is to be able to pay a visit to the recently opened Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. I am looking at the pictures from the museum and reading every piece of information that I can find about it. Most comments suggest that the museum, which is dedicated to the 31,000 murder, torture and kidnapping victims of the 1973-90 military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, will contribute much to Chilean society iRead More...

Medvedev warns against softening of Stalinist Horrors

News Reporter — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Source: New York Times, 30 october, 2009

MOSCOW — Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Friday warned that Russians have lost their sense of horror over Stalin’s purges, and called for the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the atrocities, as well as further efforts to unearth and identify the dead.

Mr. Medvedev made the comments on his video blog, on the occasion of a holiday devoted to the memory of victims of repression. He warned that revisRead More...