Military History Museum by Daniel Libeskind

Project: Military History Museum
Designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind
Exhibition Design: Prof. HG Merz, Holzer Kobler Architekturen
M&E: Ipro Dresden
Structural Engineer: GSE Ingenieur-Gesellschaft mbh
Auditing Statics: Ing. Consult Cornelius-Schwarz-Zeitler GmbH
Landscape Architect: Dipl.-Ing. Volker von Gagern
Lighting Designers: Delux AG
Fassade: Josef Gartner GmbH
Client: Federal Republic of Germany
Location: Dresden, Germany
Website:  www.daniel-libeskind.com


German military history is part of German cultural history. This notion forms the basis for the redevelopment of the German Army’s Military History Museum in Dresden. The concept and design of the exhibition are intended to create a dialogue between conventional and unconventional views and to make this complex topic accessible to the whole of society in a completely new way.


The museum’s redesign creates the setting for a reconsideration of that past in a city annihilated by allied bombing at the end of WWII. Inside the wedge a 99 foot viewing platform provides breathtaking views of the city as it is today while the wedge itself points in the opposite direction, toward the source of the bombs, creating a dramatic space for reflection. Says Libeskind, “Dresden is a city that has been fundamentally altered. The events of the past are not just a footnote; they are central to the transformation of the city today.” Inside, in the original, columned part of the building, German’s military history is presented in chronological order. But now it is complemented, in the new wide-open spaces of the five-story wedge, by a new thematic consideration of the societal forces and human impulses that create a culture of violence.


Daniel Libeskind’s winning design boldly interrupts the original building’s symmetry. The extension, a massive, five-story 200-ton wedge of glass, concrete and steel, cuts through the 135-year-old former arsenal’s structural order. A 99-foot high viewing platform provides breathtaking views of modern Dresden while pointing in the opposite direction toward the source of the fire-bombs, creating a dramatic space for reflection.




“The dramatic extension is a symbol of the resurrection of Dresden from its ashes. It is about the juxtaposition of tradition and innovation, of the new and the old. Dresden is a city that has been fundamentally altered; the events of the past are not just a footnote; they are central to the transformation of the city today.”- Daniel Libeskind



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