With a great deal of media fanfare, Google Earth and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum have launched a collaboration that allows Google Earth users to see and interact with the unfolding genocide in Darfur. The Google Earth layer produced through this collaboration taps into the resources of the Holocaust Museum, giving the user access…
Tag: Museums
Where the Present Lies Heavily on the Past (cont’d)
Yesterday I wrote about the Choeung Ek (Killing Fields) site of memory here in Cambodia. Today, I turn to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (S-21 Prison) in downtown Phnom Penh. Tuol Sleng is in better shape than Choeung Ek, probably due to it’s location in the city rather than out in the countryside, and the…
Where the Present Lies Heavily on the Past
This past weekend I visited the main sites of memory from the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s—the Tuol Sleng (S-21) prison in Phnom Penh and the Choeung Ek extermination site just outside the city. For anyone who has spent as much time as I have teaching about the Holocaust of European Jewry, I thought I…
Best History Museum Ever
I was in Budapest last week leading a study tour from my university and while there, a group of us visited the House of Terror (Terror Haza) museum. It was the best history museum I have ever visited (although this fact is not reflected in their website, which still needs work). The museum itself is…