Berlin’s Topography of Terror on Nazi Site

April 13, 2010 on 7:47 am | In Germany, Museums | Comments Off


Condor.comBerlin’s Topography of Terror will be completed as a site of remembrance and learning, when the new documentation center opens to the public on May 7, 65 years after the end of World War II.

The exhibition and documentation center, as well as a comprehensive outdoor exhibition, will be located on the grounds along Niederkirchner Strasse, the actual location of Hitler’s SS and Gestapo headquarters.

From here, between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime orchestrated the genocide of the European Jews, and the systematic persecution of political opponents.

Architect Ursula Wilms designed the modern concrete and glass building as a transparent cube with a strong indoor-outdoor reference, putting the focus on the 11-acre historic space, rather than the architecture itself.

The building will provide four exhibition halls for temporary and permanent exhibitions, as well as a research library, and state-of-the-art event and lecture spaces.

Open since 1987, the Topography of Terror began in a temporary exhibition pavilion, and later as an outdoor exhibition in the nearby excavated walls of the notorious Gestapo “house prison” cellars.


German rail pass from Rail EuropeThe open-air exhibition will remain part of a historic walkway and feature 15 stations providing information about the time and the place.

The Topography of Terror Foundation encourages active confrontation with the darkest chapter in German History, and its impact since 1945.

With more than 500,000 visitors per year, the Topography of Terror is one of the most visited sites in Berlin.

For more information, visit www.topographie.de

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