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Found in Western Cape Region, South Africa. To Walter Benjamin, the recovery of the unknown past – “the awakening of not-yet-conscious knowledge of what has been” – is the battlefield where the future is decided. Vergès, F. 2014. A Museum without objects. In: Chambers, I., De Angelis, I., Ianniciello, C., Orabona, M., ed. The Postcolonial Museum. The arts of memory and the pressures of history. London: Taylor & Francis Group. 27.