You can learn a lot about how your memory works by seeing its shortcomings, then learning some tricks to overcome them. This area of the show was full of exhibits that allowed you test your memory, and discover some simple techniques to improve it. Visitors discovered the differences between long-term and working memory, and between recall and recognition. This area examined the memories that span a multitude of consciousnesses. Visitors flashed back to the most memorable moments of this century, viewed a photo show of powerful and innovative memorials, or participated in creating a time capsule to pass on shared memories to future generations.
Memory is intensely personal, intensely powerful.
For each of us as individuals, our memories establish where we've been, who we are. They are the threads that connect our childhood selves with the adults we have become. When we're young and don't have as much to remember, we take our memories for granted. As our memories grow, and as we age, they are something we fear losing. Memory was a new kind of exhibition, an experiment that used science and art from a variety of social and cultural perspectives to help us understand ourselves.