Dear Margaret Hayon,

your task to set up a museum on the Ethiopian Jews as a means to create
awareness for the struggle of a people is marvellous. But, you should be
aware that this theme does not comply easily with the method of exhbition.

We just got the contract to construct a "themed museum" about the
possibility of certain peoples living together during the centuries, most of
the time in a friendly and normal way, but since the advent of nationalism
and racism, in a hostile way.
It seems for us not an easy task to show this in an exhibition, which has to
draw a lot of visitors to educate them and to keep up for its operation.We
try to find a middle path between stating the facts and arising couriosity
by posing questions to the visitors, who can answer in interactive ways.

I would like to know more about your concepts on how to deal with such a
complex theme in an exhibition.

Greetings from Austria,
yours,

Peter, the Rebernik

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>I and two other Museology students at the University of Haifa are
>working on an assignment on the topic of establishing a museum for
>Ethiopian Jews. (There are plans to set up such a museum, but the museum
>itself does not yet exist: the process has run into various bureaucratic
>and other difficulties.)
>
>The Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel has undergone profound
>physical, cultural and psychological traumas in the process of being
>transplanted from Ethiopia to Israel.  These include: deaths of
>thousands and separation of families during the long Trek via the
>refugee-camps in Sudan in the 1980s
>........
>Thank you.
>
>Margaret Hayon
>Student of Museology, University of Haifa, Israel
>and researcher of Ethiopian Jewish heritage.
>