ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the strategies employed to repair, or not, the reality of changing and fragmented Lebanese memories. It outlines the public appropriation of this private building that was at the beginning kind of ordinary heritage building. The first poster announced the project of a Museum for the Memory of Beirut but has since then been replaced in May 2010 by another, featuring the Beit Beirut project, which is planned to take place in 2013. The museum building's process constitutes a site for the negotiation of knowledge and ideas between various local and foreign actors. Although the idea of creating a museum had been present throughout the years of struggle for the building's preservation, the need to convert the place into a 'public interest space', according to the expropriation decree, led Beirut's municipality to think about establishing a museum.
