![]() ![]() In September 2014, this museum became a refugee camp. ![]() From June to September 2014, it hosts a show on genocide and its consequences, called “Never Again! Apology and Coming to Terms with the Past.” Its poster shows former prime minister of West Germany Willy Brandt on his knees in front of the Warsaw ghetto memorial. The image above shows the municipal art gallery of Diyarbakir in Turkey. And as times and spaces change, so do museum spaces. But if nations are a way to organize time and space, so is the museum. To build a museum, a nation is not necessary. 8 Today-instead of print-there is data capitalism and a lot of museums. To build a nation, Benedict Anderson suggested that there should be print capitalism 7 and a museum to narrate a nation’s history and design its identity. 6 The winner of the architectural competition for the National Museum has never been announced.Ī view from the outside of the Sumer Park Kültür Merkezi, Diyarbakir, Turkey. On April 28, 2011, Art Newspaper reports that the conference has been cancelled due to street protests. However, three weeks prior to this date, twenty protesters were “reportedly killed as 100,000 people marched in the city of Daraa.” 5 By then, invitations for the conference had already been issued to a host of prominent speakers, including the directors of the Louvre and the British Museum. 4 Both the Louvre and the Guggenheim Bilbao are named as role models for a redesigned National Museum in Damascus.Ī conference is planned to unveil the winner of an international competition for the design of this National Museum in April 2011. 3 The French Louvre is listed as a partner in developing this plan. Her foundation aims to establish a network of museums to promote Syria’s economic and social development and strengthen national identity and cultural pride. 2 It details Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad’s plans for the future of Syria’s museums. 1 The file is called “316787_Vision Presentation-Eng.pptx,” in PowerPoint format, dated October 2010. ![]() It forms part of WikiLeaks’s Syria files database. This is a file published in 2012 by WikiLeaks. ![]()
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