most selfless and meaningful period of their lives. Some veterans have expressed the sentiment that "even in the quiet moments, war is brighter, louder, brasher, more fun, more tragic, more wasteful. More. More of everything."

The experience of the Vietnam veteran was distinctly different from that of veterans of other American wars. Once he completed his tour of duty, he usually severed all bonds with his unit and comrades. It was extremely rare for a veteran to write to his buddies who were still in combat, and (in strong contrast to the endless reunions of World War II veterans) for more than a decade it was even rarer for more than two or more of them to get together after the war. Korean War veterans had no memorial andthe permanent exhibition. In order to move away from disciplinary compartmentalisation, this workspace is envisioned as a collaborative platform, a place that aims to gather ethnologists, philosophers, art historians, curators, mediators, designers / architects, artists and various professions linked in any way to the museum: lighting or sound engineer, videographer, graphic designer, etc. around a common issue, in collaboration with several departments.

The notion of crisis affecting the ethnographic institutions, not only in their theoretical foundations but also in their practices, including that affecting the Ethnographic Museum, will be at the heart of our concerns. We will try to highlight the scenic symptoms in its failures, successes as well as its creative side-tracks, as manifested in general in ethnographic museums today around the world in general, and at the