Such is the controversial July 22 exhibition – Dagbladet.no

(Dagbladet): Wednesday at 14 opens the controversial exhibition on July 22 center, exactly four years after the terrorist attacks in Oslo and on Utøya.

The center is housed in the high-rise where Prime Minister’s Office was in 2011. The press has already been able to see the exhibition.

See video above.

Pictures of the slain

The first room you enter the show photographs of 69 of the 77 killed at Utøya and in ministries. The remaining eight are left out, at the request of the families. The bare brick walls and stained in H-block still reflect the explosion.

In the next room you get to see surveillance video from the government building on July 22, 2011. The video shows Breivik’s car parked outside the high-rise and the bomb goes off.

In the third room are the remains of car bomb on display at the center, with a timeline around showing that fateful day in detail hourly.

Forward will see a video with testimonies, where the survivors telling their stories. The last room is devoted trial and the time afterwards.

Here are also some of Breivik’s belongings on display – ID card he used, necklace and the Norwegian flag he had attached to his uniform.

disputed exhibition

In particular the decision to have the parts of the mass murder’s assets in the exhibition has attracted attention in advance of the exhibition. Several experts have been critical considering that the exhibition could attract Breivik sympathizers.

Kjetil Stormark, who has written two books on July 22, has previously said to Dagbladet he believes the 22 July exhibition will attract Breivik sympathizers “like flies on fly paper.”

– Breivik artifacts will have an almost magnetic attraction for many of those who cultivate Breivik and his actions. The exhibition could become a kind of twisted Mecca for anti Islamists and right-wing extremist tourists. Relatives also have questioned this, he said.

Among the relatives who have been critical to showcase Breivik assets Vanessa Svebakken, who lost his daughter on Utøya.

– There are many ways to tell a story, and for me it is completely incomprehensible that this story be told through Breivik’s assets. There is no mass murderer we provide more talk time than him. He is the only one who has killed so many young people with their own hands, and then we’ll put out the equipment he used on exhibition. I do not understand that it is possible, she said to Dagbladet.

– Knowledge and transparency

Government and modernization Minister Jan Tore Sanner, on its part said that knowledge exhibition contributes is important in the grief process.

– Knowledge and openness are our best protection against hatred, violence and extremism. The exhibition shows what happened on July 22, how we as a nation stood up against terrorism and how we as law society had dealt with terrorist. July 22 center is a place we can choose to visit, or to choose not to visit, he said.

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