![Dresden-militarhistorisches-museum in [lang_de]Das neue Militärhistorische Museum Dresden – Nachdenken über Krieg und Frieden[/lang_de] [lang_en] The new Military History Museum Dresden – Thinking about war and peace[/lang_en]](http://www.dresdenwalks.com/wp-content/gallery/dresdenwalks-illu/dresden-militarhistorisches-museum.jpg)
The Jewish-American architect Daniel Libeskind (Jewish Museum in Berlin), who specializes in memorial architecture has turned,
following a contract with the Defense Department, the old arsenal building into a museum for German Army History.
An impressive new design and highly visible intervention is now since the opening 14th October 2011 the laterally projecting concrete-steel wedge. It covers all floors and pits partially the historic substance. The impressive steel wedge that opens the prestigious military building from 1875 with new views illustrates in a strong and emotional way, what happened to this city and our country during the German division and
is thought provoking how catastrophe came from Nazi Germany. If one climbs the stairs to the museum, you are confronted with a visible fracture. The wedge clears the way to the historic city centre of Dresden. It rises above the roofs of the old building, from the outside as a visible sign of renewal and from the inside as an opening to the city.
Libeskind’s glassy V should be a symbol of the courage of a new start, which the Dresdner had after the Second World War. In the form of a V also the bomb attack was flown on 13th February 1945 on Dresden. The first marking bomb destroyed the stadium in the Ostragehege, the tip of the wedge is pointing there with an angle of 40.1°.
The Military Historical Museum of the Bundeswehr offers different perspectives on German military history. The theme that permeates all exhibition areas and the planning concept is the question of the causes and nature of violence. Here is the man: discussed with all his fears, hopes, passions, memories, instincts, and his courage, his reason and aggression. War is only understandable if its portrayal takes human nature as a basis.
In the vast exhibition of 13,000 square meters not technology and war take the centre of the stage, but man as perpetrator and victim. Altogether, the museum displays about 10,500 exhibits.
It is open Thursday to Tuesday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Monday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed on Wednesdays. KM
