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‘Paradoxes of War Critique on Display: The Dresden Bundeswehr Museum of Military History,’ Australia and New Zealand Journal of Art, 20:1 (2020), Deborah Ascher Barnstone.
Although the Dresden Bundeswehr Museum of Military History reopened in 2011 dedicated to a “critical, differentiated and honest confrontation with military, war and violence,” the conflicting readings of Daniel Libeskind’s aggressive architectural addition, and the exhibitions installed in it, call into question the ability of any museum to mount an effective critique of war. The enormous perforated steel wedge penetrates the old neoclassical building, disrupting its traditional symmetry and adding open, light spaces by breaking through and splitting open the host structure. The transparent new building was intended as a symbolic foil to the opacity of the older one dating to Germany’s authoritarian past thereby signifying democratic openness and the new role of the military in contemporary, unified Germany. In this way, the building played upon familiar symbolic tropes active in West Germany since 1949 and in unified German since 1990 that set openness, accessibility, and transparency against exclusivity, closed plan, and opacity. The addition intentionally dealt in such oppositions pitting the dynamic new architecture with the static existing structure. The tension between the violent but aesthetically beautiful architectural gesture and the design’s intentions highlights the challenges facing the museum.