Germany’s Museum of Military History


If there ever were a moment where architecture would be connected with controversy, it would be right now. This Saturday will mark the opening of The Museum of Military History in Dresden, Germany. This will be the first war museum to open in Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall and since the end of World War II. The same architect who designed the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Daniel Libeskind, headed the design of this museum, which highlights Germany’s military history.
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& c3 A% N) t4 u5 FThe museum was constructed in 1873 and acted as a military arsenal which served thereafter as a Nazi military museum and as the museum of the East German National People’s Army. Recently, the building experienced a brief 10 year closure, and will now re-open as a military history museum in a town that barely survived the February 1945 firebombing of Dresden by Allied forces.
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Libeskind’s 85 million dollar reconstruction of the historic Dresden Armory manifests itself as a gigantic metal shard which reaches into the sky towards the opposite direction of the tragectory of those dropped bombs, on that chilly February day in 1945.  Libeskind explains that the dynamic architectural element “boldly interrupts the original building’s symmetry.” The “massive, five-story 140-ton wedge of glass, concrete and steel, cuts through the 135-year-old former arsenal’s structural order. A 98-foot high viewing platform provides breathtaking views of modern Dresden,” stated the architect.
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- U# d/ e, D4 i1 gThis re-design dramatically changed the way the museum told the story of the military. The German’s military history is presented in chronological order throughout the space of the original building, however, within the perimeters of Libeskind’s shard, the museum will take a more thematic approach to conveying the story of the German Military through exhibits with titles such as “Fashion and the Military” and “War and Suffering.”
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Ultimately, there is no exhibit about the Holocaust. [url=http://www.facebook.com/pages/Knstrctcom/180510178638671]Thoughts?

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(Photograhy Credits: Bitter Bredt

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最后一张好壮观~
强大
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德国就是很厉害

最後一張好漂亮！

最末一个 是亮点啊~~
                   压轴的哦~

军事博物馆、还没看够的感觉、

图片太少了，好美的设计

图片确实太少了 一点瘾都过到，希望主楼再挖掘余下的图片啊

壮观  

真的很震撼

图片很震撼，就是觉得太少了，没看够啊