Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project
Setting the scene
In December 2008, the European Parliament voted to establish under its aegis a “European House of History,” and commissioned a committee of experts to develop it.208 The stated purpose of this Museum, currently under construction in Brussels at a controversial cost of some 50 million euro and due to open at the end of 2015, is to ensure that a “shared view on the past, present and future of Europe can emerge” by creating “a place where a memory of European history and the work of European unification is jointly cultivated” (Committee 2008, 5). The “key message” to be “conveyed” by the new institution was described as follows:
The overcoming, to a large extent, of ...
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