museum of massacre

There are many muse­ums to war and holo­caust; this museum is dif­fer­ent.

The Museum of Mas­sacre is a vir­tual museum of pre-history, allow­ing vis­i­tors to walk through sites prior to what is now known, to look more directly not at the mas­sacre itself, but to the enslave­ment of vision, fore­go­ing ques­tions of how or why a ram­page occurred, or “will it hap­pen to me?,” to ask how we use this infor­ma­tion to stoke fear and loathing towards oth­ers and back upon ourselves.

MoMas­sacre does not take stock post-massacre, it dwells on the still, unsul­lied, open, even naive space that obscures the vio­lence that will fill it. In look­ing at the still­ness, another memo­r­ial emerges, one ded­i­cated to the way space shapes our expec­ta­tions in and of the world.