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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.