The Conflict Museum

 

The Conflict Museum: photo from the Metropolitan Workshop ( http://www.metwork.co.uk/ ).

 

Design & Construction:

The construcction of the Museum of Conflict in Tripoli, Libya, will begin sometime before September 2009, and will be finished by the end of 2011. As the name suggests, the museum will house Libya’s struggle for freedom, conflicts, and resistance, from the colonial period to the independence and the great revolution of the 1st of September 1969, including photos, guns, cannons, tanks, planes, etc.

The modern design of the building, by London's Metropolitan Workshop , employs dynamic and environmental principles, dune landscapes, desert camps, and military camouflage netting, with some parts of the building slightly below the ground level. A remembrance poppy field garden will welcome the visitors to the entrance of the museum.

The design incorporates a mixture of angled exterior skins, interlocking square floors, and a number of gallery terraced spaces spiraling through the building; creating a kind of contradiction where both non-conditioned and conditioned spaces exist together in harmony - or so we were told.

Galleries:

• Ground Floor: large-scale exhibits, such as planes and tanks.
• First Floor: uprising against repression and imperialism, documenting the various struggle movements and heroes.
• Second Floor: the history of the First of September 1969 Revolution: the white revolution: not a single bullet was fired.
• Top Floor: exhibits relating to reconciliation, remembrance, tolerance and dialogue.

 

The museum complex will also include:

• Library
• Reading Room
• Offices
• Conference Room
• Cafe
• Museum Shop
• Prayer Rooms
• Conservation room