Shared Spaces, Separate Lives: The Valentine Museum . Gregg Kimball, Barbara Batson, Chester Design Associates.

Abstract

where despite the hard work of many curators and educators, the story of slavery remains a footnote to American history-one cannot but applaud the simple fact that this new museum has been built in the first place. Yet, because the Holocaust Museum reproduces rather than challenges the cultural politics of nationalism and individualism, it is far less radical than a comparison with older museums might lead one to think it is. One wonders, then, how analysts a generation or two from now will see the Holocaust Museum in relation to the politics of fin-de-siecle America.