Bearing in mind that a site of memory aims to resignify its surroundings based on three main elements: space, memory and reparation, and the resulting conjunction of these three main elements, the Site of Memory in Circular de Morelia is tasked with recovering the basement of the former Federal Security Directorate, as a witness to the human rights violations that occurred during the period of counterinsurgency known as the Dirty War in Mexico.

Located in the basement of a building occupied by the now dissolved Federal Security Directorate (DFS) between 1974 and 1985, the Site of Memory in Circular de Morelia seeks to disseminate the memory and history of state violence.  The site functioned as the first prison and distribution site for detainees-disappeared by the Federal Security Directorate. The basement of the Circular de Morelia cannot be considered a museum since it was not originally designed to show, recognize or exhibit the grievances of an era; and unlike a museum, this building preserves in its nooks and crannies, walls, floors, windows and under its walls information that can still give clues to what happened inside. In “Circular de Morelia” visitors are offered the experience of a Site of Memory, the museography tells the history of the social movements that were persecuted, the chronology of the DFS and its directors, the clandestine counterinsurgent bodies that occupied this space, the archives that give an account of it, and there are spaces for the voice of the relatives of the disappeared and survivors along with the number of people tortured, disappeared and extrajudicially executed in this period. The site also  offers a variety of cultural activities such as workshops, testimonies, book presentations, documentaries and theatre plays.