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The “June 4th Memory·Human Rights Museum”, funded by the Hong Kong People’s Federation of Patriotic and Democratic Movements (Stakes), opened online today (4th) to provide people around the world with a space to mourn the dead and keep memories. However, in view of the political situation in Hong Kong, the museum will be separated from the stake from the opening day and will be operated independently by a curatorial team led by Chang Ping, a Chinese media person who is currently in Germany and has personal experience in 1989.
The Stake Association felt that it was for the first time banned to hold candlelight evenings in Victoria Park on the 31st anniversary of the June 4th Incident last year. The situation was precarious, so it launched a crowdfunding campaign from June to August last year and received donations of 1.67 million Hong Kong dollars from more than 1,000 people. The Tiananmen Square Memorial Hall on the Internet, and Chang Ping was invited as the chief curator to establish curatorial, archives and technical teams around the world to operate the museum.
The “June 4th Memory·Human Rights Museum” has six permanent pavilions, namely the “Time Pavilion”, “Space Pavilion”, “People Pavilion”, “Hong Kong Pavilion”, “Art Museum” and “Media Pavilion”. In addition to the cultural relics of the pro-democracy movement and the “June 4th Incident,” the “Hong Kong Pavilion” also contains information on recent protest movements in Hong Kong, including information on national security legislation against Article 23 of the Basic Law and the anti-transmission movement. The curatorial team stated that The concept of the museum is to place “June 4th” in a larger context of time and space, and uphold the concept of “Building in Progress” forever, that is, with the theme of “June 4th Massacre”, it runs through the context of global struggle and presents organic activity. history.
The museum stated that it will continue to update in the future, supplement the content of the existing exhibition halls, gradually release more detailed historical materials, translate multilingual versions, and open special exhibitions on current events and themes of anniversaries from time to time.
In order to establish a credible academic foundation, the museum established an academic committee to invite experts and scholars who have studied the history of the 1989 Chinese democracy movement and China’s democratization and social movements to join, including Lin Peirui from the University of California, Riverside, and California State University, Los Angeles. Song Yongyi, Bai Xia from the School of Political Sciences in Paris, France, Ako Tomoko from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and Chen Zhijie from Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. In addition, the Stake said that due to the intensified political repression in Hong Kong, the physical “June 4th Memorial” has been closed and will only consider reopening until a suitable method or location is found in the future.
The “June 4th Memorial Hall” was opened to the public by the Hong Kong government department on June 1 that the museum had not applied for a public entertainment venue license. It was charged for violating the “Public Entertainment Places Ordinance”. The stakes announced that it would be closed the following day. The court subsequently fined the stake 8,000 yuan.
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