Voices ↗
First-hand statements, interviews and testimony from those who witnessed, shaped or challenged events.
MEMORY. EVIDENCE. PERSPECTIVE.
A history
rewritten,
not retold.
A different way of seeing the modern history of Palestine — through the voices, images and documents that have too often remained at the margins.
ENTER THE ARCHIVE ↗PALESTINE, SEEN FROM WITHINSCROLL TO DISCOVER ↓
Cover photograph supplied by MUPA · Photographer, date and provenance pending confirmation.
01 / THE MUSEUM
History, seen
from within.
For generations, Palestine has been narrated from the outside. MUPA was created to reverse that gaze.
We bring together first-hand testimony, historical records and images to examine the events, decisions and human lives that shaped its past and continue to shape its present.
Beyond moments of rupture are cities, families, culture and everyday life. Their stories belong at the centre of the history.
A place to look closer.
To listen longer.
To question what we know.
02 / EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS
Voices. Images.
Documents.
Three ways into a history.
One invitation to look again.
Images ↗
People, places and everyday gestures. Historical photographs that invite us to look beyond the familiar frame.
Documents ↗
Maps, declarations, reports and records. A way to examine the evidence and the decisions behind the history.
Voices: Albert Einstein · Hannah Arendt · Malcolm X. Documents: Adolf Hitler · Theodor Herzl. Photographs supplied by MUPA; see image records.
03 / A CENTURY IN CONTEXT
Enter the
timeline.
Events are connected.
Explore the moments that shaped them.
04 / THE NAKBA TIMELINE
The Nakba.
A rupture that
lives on.
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05 / HISTORY & ITS WITNESSES
History speaks
through its witnesses.
Words matter. So do the speaker, the date and the context. This collection will present testimony with its original source and the information needed to read it critically.
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW