
How to tell the story of WW2 in museums
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How Did You Decide to Open a Gallery?
Usually these exhibitions are in very dark, confined spaces to give a sort of feeling of clostrophobia. Whereas your exhibition is actually quite light, as there's a lot of light in the rooms. Can you tell us abit about how you came to that sort of decision? We we started from the position of thinking, what do we want our visitors to understand from this experience? One of the things that we wanted them to understand is that these things happened in our world. They didn't happen in in a distant, unrelated past. And with all those kind of er principles in place, it seemed really clear to us that keeping the space in the dark wasn't, wasn't the
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