Introduction

This exhibition was based on a book by a Russian neurologist, A.R. Luria, and it relates a true but tragic story of a man who had an extraordinary memory. 

The first part of the exhibit (colored panels and black and white photos) narrated in an old-fashioned 'Science Museum' style highlight the different stages of this incredible memory and at the same time the problem it was for this man to live with this amount of information all the time, having no chance to take some distance, to analyze something, to think about it.

The second part (text only) – the visitor is guided by a red spiral shaped rope – a questionnaire testing the person who has just seen the exhibit about what he has seen and thus bringing him progressively to think about his own memory.