ABSTRACT

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum has overcome the boundaries of a typical ‘corporate’ museum and re-composed its vast and constantly growing collection into an emotionally touching and engaging story about compassion and timely help to those in need, about hope and perseverance in finding lost relatives or restoring someone’s trampled dignity. The newly re-designed exhibition is simultaneously sensuous and sensitive. Three broadly interpreted topics (Reducing Natural Risks; Defending Human Dignity; and Restoring Family Links) have been given distinctive visual and even textural/tactile interpretation by distinguished architects/designers from Asia, Latin America and Africa.