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I’m glad to hear somebody else noticed that building, I think its a hall of some kind….?

For me it seemed to fit perfectly well within the schema of the museum.
Next to the mock-up interiors and facsimile exteriors, the house sits as a record of what once was.
And, as if housing the same mannequins as the museum, it appears behind glass as part of a giant vitrine. A full scale model to be preserved, archived and looked at in new ways because of its proximity to the museum ‘site’.  Maybe its where the mannequins go when the museum closes, who knows???

Of course, I am hear speaking as if I was a member of one of the museums many school trips, we all know much better now! But it does make one wonder if the archivist knows what the insect content of this ‘hall’ is….?
Presumably these are the kind of buildings that once stood within the footprint of the museum. No matter how bomb damaged it would have taken the destruction of several of these buildings to build the brutal concrete  melange that is the museum. In keeping with the link to the Olympic ‘site’ it would be as if somebody had refused to move out, the trace would be a cross between Rodger Hiorns Seizure and a scene from ‘Battery’s not included’. A trace of an environ that once was, now physically taken over, like trees growing in the amazon.