Falstad Centre

This is the main memorial (as well as research/educational) centre in Norway about the camps for political prisoners, POWs and Jews that were established by the Nazis during Germany's occupation of Norway. The centre's scope goes somewhat beyond that narrower framework and also touches on other human rights issues and genocides of the post-WWII period.

The Museum of the Second World War

This is the first Polish World War II museum, located near the place of the first clash between Polish and German forces during the Invasion of Poland. Its construction took four-and-a-half years and cost over EUR 100 million (PLN 426 million). The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk boasts some 2,500 exhibits as well as 250 multimedia stations, which allows visitors to browse through archival photos, films, and maps. The Advisory Board consists of many excellent historians, among them prof.

The blind spot. Bremen and art in the colonial era

Anthropologist Julia Binter curated the exhibition "The Blind Spot" (August 5-November 19), which aims to reflect on the colonial past of the museum and the city of Bremen, a hub of international trade during the 18th and 19th centuries - the peak of European colonialism. The exhibit also seeks to rethink pressing current issues such as globalization, migration and identity.

Nusantara Museum

The Nusantara Museum in Delft Netherlands focuses on the history and cultures of Indonesia. The museum examines the 400 year old historical relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia. In 2013, the Museum Nusantara closed its doors due to budget cuts.

Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum is located in Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania and was opened September 11, 2005. The museum is operated and maintained by the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation of New York and Asociata Memoralia Hebraica Nuşfalău - a Romanian NGO, with the support of the Claims Conference, Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania, among other philanthropic and pedagogical partners.

The Museum of Genocide Victims

The Museum of Genocide Victims was established by the Order dated October 14, 1992 of the Minister of Culture and Education of the Republic of Lithuania and the President of the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees. It is housed in the same building where from the second half of 1940 even until August 1991 the Soviet security services, best known in the world as KGB, operated.

Sereď Holocaust Museum

The Sereď Holocaust Museum was created on the site of the former labour and concentration camp in Sereď, which represents an authentic location that is linked to the tragic era of the solution of the Jewish question in Slovakia during World War II. The museum exhibits period documents, photographs, and items related to the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. One of the exhibited artefacts is a cattle wagon used to deport Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The museum also serves as a memorial to murdered Slovak Jews.

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Centre

The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Centre intends to prepare guided tours on a scientific basis that are better tailored to each target group, to extend what is already on offer with further programs such as seminars and knowledge archives and to thematize – besides Judaism and the Holocaust – tolerance and interconnection between people. A permanent exhibition shall serve as the basis for the centre and as a basis for the guided tours.

1946 Ogooué-Congo Mission

In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.

These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific expedition led by the 23-year old French ethnologist Noël Ballif. This mission was the first organised by the Liotard group, a collective of young French explorers from Paris’ Musée de l’Homme.