The Museum and the Mass Grave: Colonial Powers and the Curation of Pain
When a museum displays ancestral relics behind glass, that glass is never neutral, serving as a barrier erected by power.
The museum is often described as a sanctuary of culture, but for many nations that have suffered genocide or colonization, it functions more like a mausoleum of dispossession.
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.
The Museum as a Theater of Power
Museums do not simply preserve history; they produce it.
Author's summary: Museums can be theaters of power, curating pain and trauma.
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