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 | Announcing: The National Primate Research Exhibition Hall located in Madison, Wisconsin |  |
 Sandwiched tightly between the historic and infamous Harry H. Harlow Primate Psychology building and the National Institutes of Health’s flagship vivisection lab, the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall is like a Holocaust Memorial at the gates of Auschwitz. The National Primate Research Exhibition Hall’s permanent presence and clear voice will be impossible to ignore. Unlike common campaigns in the movement, the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall has the potential to grow ever more present and forceful. It will be the 800-pound gorilla that will demand recognition of the issue. It will host exhibits detailing society’s current and historical use of monkeys and apes. These exhibitions will educate the public about the profound similarity between them and us and point out the ethical implications for our relationship with all other animals through interactive displays and participatory educational experiences. The animal/human relationship is based on the false notion that we are fundamentally different from them in ways that exempt them from our ethical concerns. Examining and criticizing human use of other primate species most easily and richly addresses this archaic and dark idea. The National Primate Research Exhibition Hall is certain to be quite controversial; its location guarantees this. Attention to the issue will be maintained and will grow as we continually develop and promote new exhibitions. Annual conferences will host speakers of note and attract ever-increasing attention to this wedge issue. To reiterate: We are establishing a permanent facility located at the very entrance to two of the most notorious vivisection laboratories in the world. We will display disturbing unequivocal graphic and other evidence of the suffering being heaped upon the animals most like us. We will display the history of government’s lies and cover-ups and evidence of the abject failure of the animal model as a route to human healthcare. The reaction of the federal government, the media, and the vivisection community is easy to predict and will help focus the public’s attention on our inhumanity to our fellow species. Audacious. Controversial. Poignant. Powerful. And always growing. Our goal is straightforward: National dialogue. Many of the individuals involved with the Exhibition Hall have worked in vain for many years to organize public discussions and forums with representatives of the nation’s many primate laboratories. The Exhibition Hall will host a national discussion regardless of participation by the labs. We encourage their participation but view their historic reluctance as an admission that they fear the results of an informed public. What they fear, we embrace. We need your help; the animals need your help; and there has never been an opportunity to affect change like the one before you today. Never. The ultimate effect of the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall is dependent on you. You have the opportunity to help establish a beacon for the movement and a catalyst for sweeping change by becoming a founding supporter. Please help by making a contribution to our historic effort. Please let us permanently list your name in the Hall as someone who stood up and spoke out and said “No more!” Imagine the effect a Holocaust museum would have had at the gates of a Nazi death camp. Imagine the effect on the public if images of Mengele’s child victims had been put on display at the door to his laboratory. No one will be able to look away. Help us open our doors with our first planned exhibit: "How Like Us Need They Be?" Thank you for visiting our website, PrimateResearch.com. After our grand opening, we hope you will plan a visit to Madison, Wisconsin and visit the Exhibition Hall in person to experience firsthand the interactive displays and the disturbing presence of the primate laboratories which surround the National Primate Research Exhibition Hall. The Primate Freedom Project The Alliance For Animals | ||
• info@primateresearch.com • (608) 237-2500 • • Primate Freedom Project P.O. Box 1623 Fayetteville, GA 30214 • • Alliance for Animals 122 State Street #406 Madison, WI 53703 • | ||