![]() Online reviews say that the smoke and the smell of sulfur are overwhelming. Until recently, visitors to the Imperial War Museum in London could partake in the “Trench Experience” in the first world war galleries and the “Blitz Experience” in the second world war galleries. At the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, you receive a card that assigns you a racial identity, and you’re directed to one of two doors in order to “cut to the chase of what apartheid did, which was to divide and classify people”, according to museum director Christopher Till. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC gives visitors numbered identification cards chronicling the experiences of people living in Europe during the Holocaust. They believe that we can experience what others have experienced, and feel what Susan Sontag calls “the pain of others”. ![]() Photograph: Įxperience museums believe in more than sympathy.
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