About us.
We make the past more present. We engage people with difficult histories and emotionally challenging issues, empowering them to make their own meaning for today.
Paul Salmons Associates creates exhibitions and educational experiences that have a profound and lasting impact.
Our work sets out to challenge what people think they know about the past. It enables them to interrogate the meaning of difficult histories, and to revisit vital issues that still resonate in their lives today. We create space for more open and meaningful conversations within families, between friends, and across communities.
We explore how an understanding of the complexity of the past enables us to think more deeply about a similarly complex present.
Current projects include:
– Curating the international travelling exhibition ‘Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.’
– Curating ‘Seeing Auschwitz’, an exhibition produced by Musealia for UNESCO and the United Nations.
– Education advice and consultancy to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
– Research and development for countering Holocaust denial and distortion, with the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and for UNESCO and the United Nations.
For more than 20 years, Paul Salmons has shaped how we approach the difficult and emotionally-challenging history of the Holocaust.
Paul is also working on a Virtual Reality exploration of the Warsaw Ghetto with Rowan University, and developing new exhibitions, pedagogies and educational resources for clients in the UK, Europe and North America.
Among his proudest achievements, Paul:
– Helped create the United Kingdom’s national Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, developing its educational approach, programmes and resources.
– Co-founded UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education and was responsible for its educational vision and pedagogic approach, authoring innovative teaching and learning resources, and directing its full range of teacher development programmes.
– Played a leading role in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an inter-governmental body of more than 30 member states, shaping policy and practice.
Image of Paul by Olivia Hemingway.
‘Quite simply Paul is one of the most inspirational colleagues I have worked with. After nearly twenty years, every time I work with him I learn something new. He has made life long learning a pleasure. The definition of ‘Inspirational’ in the dictionary should include a link to Paul's work.’
— Grant Rogers, artist and photographer
Our clients
Our associates
Robert Jan van Pelt, cultural historian, author, curator
Luis Ferreiro, creator of major historical exhibitions
Anna Biedermann, graphic and exhibitions designer
Djamel Zeniti, architect and curator
Wolfgang Schmutz, education consultant, developer and facilitator
Mike Williams, branding and digital strategist
Leah Kharibian, scriptwriter and interpretation editor
Michael Berenbaum, scholar, writer, curator
Grant Simon Rogers, artist and educator
