At the Mercy of the Museum: Memory Construction and the Harm of Holocaust Museums
In his autobiography, Berlin Childhood Around 1900, Walter Benjamin describes an Imperial Panorama, or Kaiserpanorama, a revolving cylinder with a stereoscopic projection of images popular across Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. With this device, “it did not matter where you began the cycle. Because the viewing screen, with places to sit before…