MUSEUM OF INHERITED MEMORIES 

Inspired by Holocaust memorial and Indigenous justice, the Museum uses contemporary arts to inspire empathy for all people carrying stories of cultural survival.

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The UPRISING concerts are the Museum's most renowned events, which began for Yom Hashoah in 2021 and continue.

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The Museum collaborates with curators, artists and aligned cultural organisations of all ethnic backgrounds to respectfully remember the Holocaust, honour our varied histories and collective healing. 

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The Holocaust was a time in history that defined ‘genocide’ and 'banality of evil’. 

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'Never Again' is a slogan - a promise - made famous by a liberated prisoner of Buchenwald as he rose from the Holocaust ashes. 

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Holocaust memorial is significant to combat current antisemitism and also to continue the practice of empathy and advocacy for all ethnic minority groups facing persecution.

While the Museum honours the millions of lives lost to the Holocaust, those who survived and their descendants, we simultaneously celebrate survival and creatively carve space to unravel and understand the ongoing impact of these inherited memories.

 

Descendants of Holocaust survivors, the Museum's resident curators hold exhibitions and events each year around Yom Hashoah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day). Yom Hashoah marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In 1943, prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto courageously took action and held off Nazi troops for almost a month. They saved thousands of lives before they were overpowered.

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The Museum of Inherited Memories acknowledges that the First Nations people of Australia were the victims and are survivors of attempted genocide that remains reflected in Australia's justice system today. 

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We are based in Naarm/Melbourne on lands and waters of the Boon Wurrung and Wurrundjeri people. We pay our respect to Elders past and present and acknowledge the ongoing connection to Country and culture.