The Sonar Space of the Practices of Commemoration of Contemporary Museums

Abstract

The article is devoted to the particularities of the sound space of exhibitions in contemporary museums commemorating World War II. It is registered that upon their projection consideration may be made of various principles of organization which create a special atmosphere making it possible to reconstruct the events of history and to experience its tragic moments anew. The sound component is a significant component of the recreated atmosphere, since it is capable of arousing certain particular sensations independently. During the process of research of the sound space of memorial complexes devoted to World War II, the following are highlighted: the Majdanek State Museum on Lublin (1944), the Yad Vashem Memorial Compound Holocaust in Jerusalem (1953), and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC (1993). The author arrives at the conclusion that due to the gradual departure of eye-witnesses and the appearance of new generations of people who have had no personal experience of communicating with participants of the war, it has become necessary to give special attention towards research work. It must be directed towards studying the process of recreating the spatial-temporal picture which makes it possible to experience anew the events of the wartime history.