Museums, Memory and Human Rights examines how transregional Holocaust memory and the associated duty to remember shape museum commemorations of violent pasts and their aspirational visions of cosmopolitan justice, responsibility, and political community building. 
Bringing museum studies and memory studies together, the book draws on in-depth case study analyses of four human rights museums located in Western Europe, North America, and East Asia to explore how top-down and bottom-up museums engage with the guilt-based politics of memory and human rights through their mandates and exhibitionary narratives. It shows how state-funded museums mobilise the duty to remember to close the books on the past and affirm narratives of national renewal, while grassroots museums use it to sustain ongoing demands for justice and challenge official historical accounts. Yet the book reveals a troubling convergence: despite these differences, both kinds of museums frame human rights protection as a matter of individual responsibility, recasting collective political obligations as neoliberal ideals of self-reliance and personal agency. In doing so, it unearths how human rights museums can narrow rather than expand the possibilities for belonging, remembrance, and political action. 
Museums, Memory and Human Rights will be of interest to researchers and students in museum studies, memory studies, and Holocaust studies as well as those interested in the ethical implications of travelling Holocaust memory practices and cosmopolitanism in contemporary human rights museums.