Surinaams Museum
The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch colonists first arrived in Suriname.
The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch colonists first arrived in Suriname.
J.A. Topf and Sons (German: J.A. Topf & Söhne) was an engineering company, founded in 1878 in Erfurt, Germany by Johannes Andreas Topf (1816–1891). Originally, it made heating systems and brewing and malting equipment. Later, the company diversified into silos, chimneys, incinerators for burning municipal waste, and crematoria. During World War I it made weapons shells, limbers (carts for carrying artillery) and other military vehicles. In World War II it also made weapons shells and aircraft parts for the Luftwaffe.
The show, curated by Rudy Lemcke, is a deep and expansive look at the ways in which the LGBT community has been shaped by violence — forms of violence committed through politics, economics and culture.
The museum, located in a memorial site, is dedicated to the French Maquis resistance against the advancement of German troops towards Normandy during World War II.
This museum that tries to convey what it was like for Albanians living under the police state of the Hoxha regime from 1945-1991. It was forbidden to say anything critical of the government - even a comment about the lack of bread on the shelves at the bakery could be enough for someone to arrested. The climate of fear was experienced by everyone and has a big influence today since anyone in Albania today who is over the age of 35 can remember living through it.
The museum was supposed to house permanent and special exhibitions on Libya’s unique history, telling the story of campaigns and conflicts that have shaped the country from colonial power to independent state. Permanent exhibitions would have included galleries documenting the country’s historic evolution with large-scale exhibits (lower ground floor), the uprising against repression (first floor) and its history of revolution (second floor).
The newly independent Finland was plunged into civil war in January 1918. The main focus of the exhibition are individuals who experienced this tragedy.
Immortalised at the photography studio Atelier Nyblin in Helsinki in 1918, these individuals are eyewitnesses to their era, and through them the war’s tragic chain of events is laid out before us, little by little.
This exhibition takes a closer look at different aspects of the process of reintegration by highlighting some international examples, based on newspaper articles, illustrated with photographs and stories from various sources.
The Ghetto Heroes Monument (Polish: pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place.
The monument was built partly of Nazi German materials originally brought to Warsaw in 1942 by Albert Speer for his planned works. The completed monument was formally unveiled in April 1948.
The Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic is designed as a place of remembrance that aims at transcending any divisions. The architects agreed that out of respect for the authentic substance of this place, it requires subtle accenting of the old and the new architecture.
The purpose of this website is to offer a guide to both general public and researchers of the museums of European political and violence, what content they offer and the topics that are not sufficiently represented. This website wants to help us to rethink the realities, shortcomings and possibilities of Public History in Europe.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.