THE Palestinians’ new national museum is a striking monument to the state they don’t yet have. Designed by a firm in Dublin, the museum itself is angular and modern, with glass curtain walls topped by smooth white limestone. From afar it looks almost like a low-slung bunker perched on a hill north of Ramallah; inside, though, it is light and airy. A terraced garden stretches out below, filled with dozens of local species...
Only one thing is missing—the exhibits.
— the Economist
A series of curatorial disputes, as well as cost overruns and delays in part attributable to the occupation of the West Bank by Israel, mean the new Palestinian National Museum will open this month without its inaugural exhibitions. The museum was designed by the Irish firm Heneghan Peng.
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I think the Palestiians care more for having their country back from its racist ethno-suprematist colonisers,. Israel has been empying. The colony of Palestine out from its people and its culture (albeit appropriating their foods -by adding some diced tomatoes to a Palestinian/Levantine dish and calling it Israeli (as if)) so what is at stake is far more serious than an empty musuem.
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