TRIUMF AMIRIA. The Queer Culture Museum [?] is a project aimed at recovering queer cultural production from the past 20 years, focusing on three main areas: literature, visual arts, and performing arts. TRIUMF AMIRIA is an extensive effort to disseminate local queer culture while also seeking to identify multiple directions for the future of queer cultural production.

The project proposes a series of events intended to highlight the importance of queer culture in the past two decades and to encourage new cultural production through exhibitions, workshops, guided tours, theater performances, readings, and networking events. These public activities are accompanied by research and digital archiving of cultural artifacts created by queer artists from 2001 to the present.

An explanation for the museum’s unusual name is provided by Mihaela Cîrjan, the museum coordinator: “An authentic queer name that emerged in the laboratories of the artistic collective Apparatus 22, TRIUMF AMIRIA alludes to the feeling of pride, the pride celebrated annually by queer communities around the world, but it also encapsulates a broader vision of the role of a queer museum. A-mi-ri-a because it tends towards infinity, towards utopia. We recover ‘miria’ from the Greek ‘mýrioi,’ used in the 18th and 19th centuries (later forgotten) as a decimal prefix in the metric system to symbolize ten thousand. It is a necessary gesture to represent our queer identities, fluid and multiplied ten thousand times and ten times over, in an ideal world where queerness allows space for all of us, in virtue of our humanity.”