Overview
- Following an October inauguration by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Deutsch-Deutsche Museum opens to visitors on 9 November in Mödlareuth.
- Federal, Bavarian and Thuringian funding of about €22 million financed a new building and a fully reconceived permanent exhibition.
- Exhibits include the self-built escape aircraft DOWA 81, VR tours developed with input from local residents, and an installation that recreates border checks in a period Mercedes.
- A memorial space honors 22 people killed at the regional wall with a barbed-wire cross and brief biographical profiles.
- Culture State Minister Wolfram Weimer casts the reopening as a warning against new divisions in society, while some eyewitnesses criticize freshly white-painted wall remnants as diminishing authenticity.