US EditionGerman History Museum Offers Fresh Take on Postwar Years
The redesigned exhibition features 3,800 items with equal focus on reunification and postwar history, highlighting current debates and engaging visitors interactively, officials said.
- This past week, Bonn's Haus der Geschichte reopened its permanent exhibition 'You are part of history' after a 14-month closure and six years of planning, displaying roughly 3,800 exhibits on postwar Germany.
- To correct a noted imbalance by 2024, curators reworked the timeline, emphasizing reunification and focusing on contemporary history with a �25 million renovation budget.
- Less than a week after the December 5 Bonn demonstration, a museum employee added a red protest sign against the new military conscription law to the 'Today' section, which features interactive voting stations and silhouette displays.
- At the ceremony, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Wolfram Weimer praised the exhibition as a reflection of modern history, emphasizing the museum's national archive role, with Harald Biermann highlighting its civic education function.
- The exhibition's 'Today' section asks, `What kind of democracy do we have, what kind of republic is this?` said Weimer, highlighting debates on immigration, racism, queer life, climate policy, and media.
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German History Museum Offers Fresh Take on Postwar Years
The new permanent exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte in Bonn brings 80 years of German history to life, including the post-war period, the fall of the Berlin Wall — and concluding with present-day protests. German History Museum Offers Fresh Take on Postwar Years.
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The new permanent exhibition in the Haus der Geschichte documents German contemporary history after 1945 using numerous new original objects that tell stories of everyday life, politics and social change.
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