Rebecca JinksRecently completed her PhD at the University of London, entitled «Representing Genocide: The Holocaust as Paradigm?». Her thesis used the four bestknown genocides of the twentieth century as comparators – Armenia, Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda – and looked at these issues through the lens of film, literature, testimony, memorials and museums, and photography. Dr. Jinks is currently Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of East Anglia, and is researching her next book on the social history of interwar humanitarianism.
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Abstract
This article sets the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, and the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, into the global context of genocide memorial museums. It discusses architectural and design features as well as the museum’s fi rst permanent exhibition (1995-2013, with updates and additions), and argues that while the museum and memorial complex conform to global trends in many ways, the museum exhibition itself showed some differences. Specifi cally, it seems that the experience of longstanding genocide denial and the continued international non-recognition of the genocide in the early 1990s means that the exhibition had to take on the ‘burden of proof’ and, unlike in other museums, was almost wholly devoted to constructing a ‘case for genocide’.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.51442/ijags.0002