Overview
- Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer led the ceremonial reopening and tour, standing in for Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who was in London for talks with Ukraine’s president.
- The new permanent show, titled “Du bist Teil der Geschichte,” opens to visitors on Tuesday following the Festakt.
- Interactive features include voting from original Bundestag seating, part of a push to make post-1945 history more accessible.
- The curated selection features more than 3,800 items such as a self-built escape plane, a postwar doll’s cradle, a Ford Transit tied to an immigrant family, a protest treehouse, and the manuscript of Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende” speech.
- Backed by €25 million in special funds, the redesign gives greater space to post-1989 decades, with reunification moved to the middle of the narrative after the prior exhibition closed in September 2024.