Museum of Oblivion Memory

Located to the north end of the city of Winnipeg, The Museum of Oblivion Memory consists of an adaptive renovation of an existing body of industrial ruins, situated adjacent to one of the city’s most dense residential areas. It is proposed to rescue, re-use and re-integrate the existing industrial infrastructure within, and into, an institution that provides both a physical and spiritual framework incorporated through spatial experiences associated with the collective memory of the site and the individuals who inhabit it. The Museum explores the relationship between individuals, objects, memory and imagination. Memory and oblivion provide an essential analytical view of human vicissitudes marked by changes and searches, but also by stalking of forgetfulness. This Museum juxtaposes architectural strategies to invite emotional responses from visitors: to evoke memories via both mind and matter; and to obliterate residues or remnants of traumatic histories or other agonizing incidents from distant pasts.