SITUATING TSITSERNAKABERD: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUSEUM IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT.

Jinks, Rebecca

This article sets the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, and the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, into the global context of genocide memorial museums. It discusses architectural and design features as well as the museum's fi rst permanent exhibition (1995-2013, with updates and additions), and argues that while the museum and memorial complex conform to global trends in many ways, the museum exhibition itself showed some differences. Specifically, it seems that the experience of longstanding genocide denial and the continued international non-recognition of the genocide in the early 1990s means that the exhibition had to take on the 'burden of proof' and, unlike in other museums, was almost wholly devoted to constructing a 'case for genocide'.

GENOCIDE; ARMENIAN genocide, 1915-1923; MEMORIAL museums; MUSEUM exhibits; MUSEUM building design & construction

International Journal of Armenian Genocide Studies, 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1, p38

1829-4405

Academic Journal

10.51442/ijags.0002