This project attempts to playfully question the role of the Museum, by presenting a part of heritage, which would most probably be excluded from the official historical narrative of the Hague: stories of Moerwijk and its people. Focusing on the collection,curation, and exhibition of all the little fragments of memory, that have beenrevealed to us through research in old newspapers, photo archives, and interviews, we conceive a local pop-up museum, decentralised from the historic centre’s official spaces ofknowledge. We create nine models; nine imaginary rooms,in scale 1:20, whichaltogether -eitherasparts of one entityor spread inthe urban fabric-shape a space of sharedmemory.
Speaking of a post-war neighbourhood, that hosts manytemporary habitantsnowadays, how can a museum create a sense of belonging? Can the representation of local (hi)storiesbecomea conversation starter fortoday's Moerwijk community?