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Museums are built for the purposes of preservation or to prevent the repetition of past mistakes.
Their wordsThere are generally two reasons why we build museums: to preserve things, or to not do them again.
Their wordsAs the horror of war unfolds, the bombing of small towns tends to get sanded away from our collective memory, replaced with vague terms, because the collective noun for the bombing of small towns is war.
Their wordsWe make art as a warning. We make art as an anchor. We make sure that what is happening here will be remembered by those that come after us.
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