Very different proposition : introducing the memorial museum -- The surviving object : presence and absence in memorial museums -- Photographic memory : images from calamitous histories -- Rocks and hard places : location and spatiality in memorial museums -- Diplomatic assignment : the political fortunes of memorial museums -- The memorial museum identity complex : victimhood, culpability, and responsibility -- Looming disaster : memorial museums and the shaping of historic consciousness -- Fighting the forgetful future.