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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever visited a museum or historical site that was REALLY emotional, good or bad? [View all]SkylineChili
(63 posts)67. My top ones in US
The Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, particularly as it ends in the Lorraine Hotel rooms occupied by Rev. King and his staff
The Texas School Book Despository Building --JFK's murder was my first experience of national loss and public violence as a child. The museum is very well done. Looking out the window down onto the street where the motorcade passed is sadly moving.
The Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, the outdoor space honoring the victims, responders, and families of the 1995 Murrah Building bombing. It is beautiful and evocative.
Great thread. It is wonderful to hear of these memorials and spaces.
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Have you ever visited a museum or historical site that was REALLY emotional, good or bad? [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Apr 2023
OP
In Fort Sumner, New Mexico there was a museum the went into a lot of detail...
Enter stage left
Apr 2023
#12
The visit there and hearing the sounds and learning of the number killed there haunted me for
Samrob
Apr 2023
#75
Checking the opening date - one of the Only times (2) I was ever out of the USA.
electric_blue68
Apr 2023
#85
Several: Pearl Harbor, the Ukrainian War Museum, Auschwitz and Dachau all moved me to tears.
sinkingfeeling
Apr 2023
#46
Hiroshima Peace Park museum, but that was because I was afraid of being murdered.
betsuni
Apr 2023
#63
Genocide Museum in Rwanda.. Looks over a small plot of land containing remains of 250,000
BlueWaveNeverEnd
Apr 2023
#66
Tuol Sleng, which was a Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture center in Phnom Penh
hatrack
Apr 2023
#98