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Objects. History. Stories.

Reviewing the Collection

Pei Building, Ground floor

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We are used to thinking about history as perception in time and linear sequence. But history is also bound to places, rooms and settings. History speaks not only about the shift of time, but also about the shift in location. This idea forms the basis of “Object. History. Histories” and questions selected objects from different periods about their origin and wanderings. Doing so, the exhibition explores and illustrates their transformation on the basis of their political, social and cultural spatial contexts. 

The museum’s historically evolving collection forms the centre of the exhibition. As a place of remembrance, it is subject to constant change and also reflects the specific collecting practices of the DHM’s antecedent institutions: the Hall of Honour of the Prussian-Brandenburg Army, the Army Museum of the Nazi regime, the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte of the GDR, and the merging of that institution with the DHM, which was founded in West Berlin in 1987.

Exhibition for everyone

The exhibition is inclusive and largely barrier-free. A tactile floor plan provides information about the five rooms, and a floor guidance system leads to all the main texts and to multisensory, inclusive communication stations. The stations invite visitors to touch, smell or listen. Inclusively designed content illustrates selected themes of the exhibition by means of replicas of original objects and interactive products. Objects are presented at different heights, display cases are wheelchair accessible, and strong contrasts make reading easier. All main texts are available in German, English, plain language, German sign language, Braille, and large print.

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