Iran–Iraq War — Trois Museum concept visualization
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Conflict, Power & Consequence

Iran–Iraq War

1980 – 1988

Working Concept Plan

The experience this room is designed to create

One million dead. Eight years of trench warfare, chemical weapons, and human wave assaults in a war that ends exactly where it began — with the same borders and the same regimes. The conflict destabilizes the Gulf, empowers extremism on both sides, and sets the stage for every Middle Eastern crisis that follows.

Present Iran–Iraq War with historical clarity, human dignity, and enough context to understand causes, choices, consequences, and contested memory.

Planning statusThis page is a directional design brief, not a finalized curatorial, architectural, or construction commitment. It will evolve through scholarly, community, accessibility, conservation, and design review.
Experience Framework

How the plan unfolds

01

Visitor journey

  • Orient visitors before the conflict through maps, timelines, and the voices of people who lived through it.
  • Build toward one central encounter without aestheticizing suffering.
  • Provide a decompression point focused on aftermath, memory, and the choices carried forward.
02

Spatial & atmospheric plan

  • Separate orientation, encounter, evidence, and reflection zones.
  • Use sound and motion sparingly, with visible content guidance and an alternate route.
  • Prioritize first-person testimony and artifact context over spectacle.
03

Interpretive commitments

  • Separate verified evidence, interpretation, and artistic reconstruction in the label hierarchy.
  • Review language and object context with relevant scholars and affected communities.
  • Provide captions, transcripts, tactile or descriptive alternatives, and a low-sensory path.
04

Next development priorities

  • Confirm the curatorial thesis and source packet.
  • Identify anchor objects, replicas, media, and rights requirements.
  • Prototype the central visitor encounter at full or representative scale.
  • Complete accessibility, conservation, safety, and ethical-display reviews.

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