Berlin Historical Museum
On May 28 of 1695, the Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg
(from 1701 King Frederick I of Prussia), puts the first
stone of the Berlin Zeughaus, that finished its construction
in 1730. The Zeughaus is the oldest building the Unter
den Linden avenue and its among the most beautiful secular
baroque style buildings of northern Germany.
From 1731 to 1876, the Zeughaus was used as an arsenal
by the Prussian army. In 1815, and under the mandate of
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, started an extensive remodeling
under the directives of Johann Gottfried Schadow. In 1831
the royal collection of arms and models - established
in 1828 - opened to the public. After World War I the
Zeughaus, formerly subordinated to the military ministry,
was associated as State Zeughaus to the Prussian Art Collections.
In 1939, the army museums of Berlin, Munich and Dresden
started to depend on the Wehrmacht. Since then, the Zeughaus
was the stage where the German heroism was evoked as part
of the Nazi propaganda. In 1944/45, the building was seriously
damaged by impacts of bombs and grenades.
In 1945 the allied command dissolved the Zeughaus War
Museum. The rebuilding extended from 1948 to 1965. From
1952 to 1990, the Zeughaus was the location of the Museum
of German History. The purpose of the museum was the transmission
of the marxist-leninist conception of history. Like central
museum of history of the German Democratic Republic (GDR),
it developed a very extensive work of exhibitions and
collections. In September of 1990 the museum was dissolved
by the last government of the GDR. After the Berlin Wall
Fall and the dissolution of the Museum, the German Historical
Museum, founded in 1987 by the government of the Germany
Federal Republic, obtained the building and the collections.
The exhibitions are made in the ground floor, the photo
gallery and the mezzanine. In the superior plant are the
administration, a great part of the collaborator team
and also some of the museum collections. Other collections
and workshops are lodged in a group of buildings behind
the Zeughaus. In Berlin-Charlottenburg, the old seat of
the German Historical Museum, are the graphic collection
and the historical document collection.
Unter den Linden 2
D-10117
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