The Museum and the Mass Grave: Colonial Powers and Our Pain
When a museum displays ancestral relics behind glass, this glass is never neutral. It serves as a barrier erected by power, dividing the living from the dead, the colonizer from the colonized, and the historian from the historical subject.
The museum, often seen as a sanctuary of culture, can function more like a mausoleum of dispossession for nations that have suffered genocide or colonization. Colonial powers have used museums to collect, display, and contain the suffering of subjugated peoples, transforming trauma into spectacle and erasure into curation.
Colonial powers have long used museums to collect, display and contain the suffering of subjugated peoples, transforming trauma into spectacle and erasure into curation.
Armenia, like many small nations whose history was stolen, remains entangled in this architecture of memory. Museums do not simply preserve history; they produce it, acting as theaters of power.
Author's summary: Museums can be theaters of power, curating pain and trauma.
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