The past twenty five years has seen an extraodinary boom in a new kind of cultural complex: the memorial museum. With World War and Holocause memorials as precursors, the kinds of events now recognized include genocide in America, Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Balkans, state repression in Eatern Europe, apartheid in South Africa, terrorism in the US, political 'disappearances' in Chile and Argentina, massacres in China and Taiwan, and more.