If you
are a person that loves visiting the memorial museums then we are giving you a
list of 7 most popular museums all around the world. So, read about them and
plan to visit to those in this year. These are as following:
1.
Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile
Museum
of Memory and Human Rights, Avenida Matucana 501, Santiago, Región Metropolitana,
Chile, +56 2 2597 9600
Museum
of Memory and Human Rights (Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos) was
constructed almost two decades following Augusto Pinochet’s harsh dictatorship
had ended and leave behind a bleeding trail of human rights abuses and
reminiscences of fear. There are things that narrates the story of the crimes
of Chilean regime, spacious monuments which are glass covered and many more.
Hence, this museum is devoted to underlining the significance of human rights
by several artistic media.
2.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan
Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum, 1-2 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima, Hiroshima
Prefecture, Japan, +81 82-241-4004
The
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum honors the reminiscence of those who lost their
lives through the American atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is
designed by architect Kenzo Tange and build in the year 1955; a decade after
the inexpressible explosions killed over 200,000 civilians of Japan. This
museum is enclosed by a statue garden and display space, where historic
architectural elements meet the forward-looking innovation in a setting that is
both watchful of its history as well as hopeful about the future.
3. Tuol
Sleng Genocide Museum, Cambodia
Tuol
Sleng Genocide Museum, 113, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Tuol
Sleng, is also known as the Security Prison-21. This was one of the most
infamous custody centers of the Khmer Rouge rule, a building where
approximately 20,000 people were agonized and then killed in the 4 years of the
regime’s survival, most of them were the innocent civilians. At present, this
museum expresses the violence of that time with irrefutable directness, its set
of emotional photographs taken by the Khmer Rouge and human skulls creating a
story that strikes the visitor with its intimate tragedy.
4.
September 11 Memorial Museum, USA
September
11 Memorial Museum, Liberty St, New York City, NY, USA, +1 212-312-8800
This
memorial site was designed by the American-Israeli architect named as Michael
Arad, the September 11 Memorial Museum has opened its doors to the citizens in
2014, 13 years following the attacks on the World Trade Center, as a place for
commemorating the victims. Its exclusive design consists of trees, lush
greenery and two deep pools which represents the fallen Twin Towers. There is
also a modernist museum building which is a reminiscent of the Reflected
Absence after which it is named, a nonviolent yet unforgettable sign of lives
lost.
5.
Apartheid Museum, South Africa
Apartheid
Museum, Northern Park Way and Gold Reef Rd, Johannesburg, South Africa, +27 11
309 4700
Apartheid
Museum in South Africa features a comprehensive selection of photographs,
artifacts and objects that documents the history of South Africa. It pays the
pays honor to the sufferers and survivors of the nation’s troublesome racial
separation policy, which ended with Nelson Mandela’s increase to power.
Visitors are engrossed in the socio-political hell that tear the South Africa
separately and saw its black population experience in their own home as the
whites prospered. Moreover, the exhibitions
harmonize the enduring collection and making this museum worth visiting more
than one time.
6.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum, China
Nanjing
Massacre Memorial Museum, 418 Shuiximen St, Jianye, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China,
+86 25 8661 2230
Though
it lasted only 6 weeks, the 1937 Nanking Massacre was one of the most throbbing
episodes in the history of China. There approximately 200,000 Chinese were
raped, robbed and then killed by the invading Japanese army. This museum stands
on the largest funeral sites of the time, and bound deeply to the fortune of
the victims. Moreover, it is surrounded by the symbolic statutes in the outdoor
exhibition space hall and there is a hall also where momentous documents and photographs
are kept.
7.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Memorial and Museum, ul. Stanisławy Leszczyńskiej 11, Oświęcim, Poland, +48 33
844 81 00
The
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, narrates a story that is as tragic as
it is unimaginable. The compound sits on the original site where the notorious
Nazi attentiveness and extinction camp was situated, a lot of the original
watchtowers, structures and ruins standing as influential reminders of the
great loss and pain inflicted on Eastern European population and Europe’s
Jewish and. Additionally, there is a vast collection of items that once
belonged to the camp prisoners as well as works of art to more than 100,000
shoes left at the back.
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