Organization
Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial
The Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial is a museum and genocide memorial in White Center, Seattle, Washington.[1][2] It was founded by Dara Duong, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge killing fields of 1975 to 1979, and opened in 2004.[1][2] Like other Cambodian genocide museums, it serves at once as a memorial, an archive and an educational museum, and it helps carry shared cultural memory from one generation to the next.[3]
History
The museum began in Dara Duong's garage.[4] In May 2004 it opened at 9809 16th Avenue SW, off Delridge Way in White Center. It set out to celebrate Cambodian culture and to teach young people in the area about the genocide of the late 1970s.[2] Duong has said that his goal is to educate people about the Cambodian culture that the Khmer Rouge tried to destroy, and about the genocide, "so that the world will not stand by and allow such atrocities to occur again."[4]
In 2008 the museum was one of 27 in the United States included in Museums for Peace Worldwide, edited by Kazuyo Yamane.[1]
See also
- National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial (NCHM/KFM)
- Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
- All organizations
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Peace Monuments in Washington, Oregon and Idaho (USA)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, People and Companies (May 2004)
- ↑ eCommons Cornell, Cambodian Genocide Museums and Memorials: A Medium for Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory (October 2010)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dara Duong, Blogger profile