The Museum of Injustice

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"What is displayed here will continue as long as the light remains."[1]

The Museum of Injustice is a discreet, traveling collection[2] of records of oppression, curated by January of the Calendar Council.[3]

The Museum's several galleries expose various types of injustice perpetrated against the people of London. The Keening Collection features mementos and records of personal injustice,[4] like weapons, lost wedding rings, and an empty crib.[5] The Shackle Collection displays damaged artifacts[6] of maligned and exploited groups of Londoners: Rubbery Men, Clay Men, urchins, tomb-colonists.[7] It also contains books censored by Mr Pages' Ministry of Public Decency.[8] Most daringly, the Tyrant's Collection shows time itself as a prison,[9] and the Judgements as oppressors.[10] In all of these exhibitions, January is open to seeing new points of view and examples of oppression, like a Special Constable's brass knuckles[11] or a relic that shows the body itself as a prison to most.[12]

But the most enticing revelation is in the final, darkened room: a mosaic of the single ally the Liberation of Night has in the heavens.[13]

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  1. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London
  2. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "Its lights are still in the process of being lit, the shutters are still being taken from the windows. Through one, you can spot a servant dusting. You suspect that the collection currently housed here is frequently moved to avoid detection."
  3. ↑ Invite January to the Board, Fallen London "Her attention is now turned to curating the Museum of Injustices, a collection for which she is always finding new prospective exhibits."
  4. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London ""This is a collection of personal injustice. [...] A child snatched. A lover forsaken. A desperate prayer ignored." She picks up a noose from the side table and contemplates it."
  5. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "In the waning candlelight, you can see a collection of corroded wedding rings, several spent pistols and an empty crib. A lacquered screen rests against the wall; a long list of names is scored into it, followed by a catalogue of their betrayals."
  6. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "The items in this room rest on glass tables. Each exhibit is somehow damaged: a lump of heavily corroded amber, some clay fragments, a broken begging bowl, a snapped whip, a tattered pile of books."
  7. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London ""What unites the broken things of London? Injustice! Who is more exploited than the Clay Man? Who more despised than the Rubbery? What future can an Urchin look forward to? Even the Tomb-Colonists are wretched – would they cover themselves otherwise?" She shakes her head. "We face exploitation, loss of self, and loss of potential. This exhibit reminds us that we must not become accustomed to it.""
  8. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London ""The last confession of a would-be arsonist at St Fiacre's. Censored. Odes to Rubbery Exuberations. Censored. This—" she brushes her fingers against a slim volume lovingly, "– is the journals of a reporter looking into the activities of the Orphanage. Uncovered posthumously. Censored." She looks up at you. "The Ministry will not allow these to see the light. So the night holds them fast.""
  9. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "There is a quiet, but insistent, ticking. "Here, you may see the bars of our cage" [...] In its centre, a pendulum swings slowly from the ceiling. A vast clock face dominates the far wall. There is a constant whirr of clockwork and the regular clicking of gears. Before the clock stands a sundial – entirely in shadow. [...] shelves of hourglasses hiss."
  10. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London ""Here, you may see the face of our jailor" [...] A great orrery gleams in the candlelight. It rotates slowly and inexorably. [...] "As above, so below" [...]"
  11. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London ""Oh, those are perfect." The Curator darts forward to examine the knuckledusters. "Tools held by tools wielded by tools." She weighs the knuckles contemplatively. "The instruments of our oppression.""
  12. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "A body is a prison. No one asked to be constrained in one. Those who dwell on the roof recognise this, and have rebelled. Their wisdom bears wider dissemination, wouldn't you agree?"
  13. ↑ Season Conclusions (Guide)#The Season of Revolutions, Fallen London "You are standing on a spiral mosaic. The tiles are chipped, but you can make out the design. It is an eye, worked in tiles of gant. Its pupil is vast. "Our ally in the Places Above," she says, looking upwards."
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