ABSTRACT
In December 1999, after a week of intense discussion at Bellagio, the Rockefeller Foundation’s conference centre in Italy, leaders of ten historic sites: the Workhouse (England); the Gulag Museum (Russia); the Slave House (Senegal); District Six Museum (South Africa); the Project To Remember (Argentina); the Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh); Terezin (Czech Republic); National Park Service – sites include the Women’s Rights National Historical Park (US); Manzanar (the Japanese internment camp); and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (US), signed and issued the following statement:
We are historic site museums in many different parts of the World, at many stages of development, presenting and interpreting a wide variety of historic issues, events and people.
