MUSEUM OF MEMORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS - THE MEMORY DIAL
Reliving the first day of a dictatorship to help new generations understand the value of human rights.
When General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Chilean government on September 11, 1973, his regime quickly moved to silence the media. But radio was harder to control. Stations across the country aired reports of the atrocities that would shape Chile for the next 17 years.
To commemorate 45 years since the beginning of the dictatorship — and to help preserve the memory of what must never be repeated — we partnered with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights to reconstruct a minute-by-minute timeline of the first day of the coup d’état using original broadcasts.
Now a permanent exhibit, the project continues to generate earned media for the museum every September 11.