Overview

• The final public opening was held on Oct. 5, with doors now shut to visitors in the S-Bahn arch near Bellevue.
• Founder Barbara Dechant cites the lack of institutional funding, halved post‑pandemic attendance, and rising energy and operating costs as decisive factors.
• Multiple project‑funding applications were rejected this year, which the private, volunteer‑run museum says erased planning certainty.
• The team will stay in the current premises through year’s end to catalog the roughly 3,500 items and evaluate storage or an institutional takeover.
• No new location is secured; organizers prefer to keep the collection together and are soliciting donations while sounding out partners for partial or full re‑exhibition.