Just how cosy and natural this room looks like.
French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
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Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#12I really doubt there can't be a museum who would transfer the room in a permanent installation.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#13Wow, the cigarette pack still smells of tobacco after 100 years?
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#14The whole thing exudes the great sadness of the loss of a child. War sucks, but we keep doing it.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#15I really doubt there can't be a museum who would transfer the room in a permanent installation.
Yeah, but along the way you'd lose an ephemeral something. You'd stop having a single place in space frozen in time, and start having a collection of artifacts in a museum. Artifacts from the first World War are not so scarce as a room unchanged for a century.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#16The French Ministry of Defence has a public database of soldiers who died on duty during the 1st World War. I just found the entry for this officer: http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/en/ark:/4069... The most interesting part is the Images link (with an eye): it will show you a scan of the official death certificate from 1918. There are 1.3 millions soldiers in this database. 3 of them from my family.
Also, http://www.greatwar.co.uk has links to many foreign sites with information on those who died in e.g. Italian or Belgian service. http://www.greatwar.co.uk/research/military-records/ww1-war-....
It surprised me to see that many of the british data sources are of the "visit the official archive or buy digital access" kind. Also, judging from a few samples at http://www.naval-military-press.com/cd-rom/, most of it is Windows only, and not priced for impulse buyers (for example 220 pounds for a database of all British who died)
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#17Wow, the cigarette pack still smells of tobacco after 100 years?
Even more so, I'd say. Tobacco smelled something years ago. Nowadays, it's just awful pestilence.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#18I really doubt there can't be a museum who would transfer the room in a permanent installation.
Yeah, but along the way you'd lose an ephemeral something. You'd stop having a single place in space frozen in time, and start having a collection of artifacts in a museum. Artifacts from the first World War are not so scarce as a room unchanged for a century.
You can certainly keep the room intact.
In Oslo there's a museum called Norsk Folkemuseum [1] (Norwegian Museum of Cultural History) that includes 160 buildings that were dismantled and moved - some of them from other parts of the country.
Ranging from a stave church built ca. 1212 [2] that was moved to the present location in the 1880's, to a collection of five buildings built in the 1800's in an old part of Oslo that were moved to the museum when that part of Oslo was re-developed in the 1960's.
Re: French soldier’s room unchanged 96 years after his death in the first world war
#19The whole thing exudes the great sadness of the loss of a child. War sucks, but we keep doing it.
they keep doing it.