Renovation after 15 years
When I discovered that Berlin’s enormous museum of German history, the Deutsches Historisches Museum, was going to close its permanent exhibition for a 5-year renovation, I urgently wanted to get in there one last time. This exhibition has been around for 15 years and contains some of my favorite museum objects of all time! To show them to you and reflect on the way this exhibition tells stories, I made a video that you can watch here. In it I also give you a sneak peek into the future version of the exhibition and how it will be different.
The special exhibitions in the rear building of the museum will remain open, so keep visiting those for your history fix until 2025!
The lobby at the main entrance is a grand space. The statue in the center of the photo is a great example of national socialist (Nazi) art.
Moving boxes were already standing around during my visit, waiting to be filled with the 6000 objects currently on display.
Although I went into the museum with 2 other favorite objects in mind, this one quickly joined the list. It’s a mechanical prosthetic arm from 500 years ago! You can learn more about it in my video.
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