Deutschlandmuseum Berlin
Deutschlandmuseum Berlin - Leipziger Platz 7
Topic:German history immersive and tangible: the one-hour tour leads through twelve historical epochs on around 1,400 square meters.
Task:Crossworks Projects was engaged as the general contractor for the media-technology, show control, as well as electrical and network installation. The major challenge was the tight implementation time of 5 months from start-of-work to the official opening on June 17, 2023.
2000 years of German history immersively presented at the heart of Berlin.
The Deutschlandmuseum in Berlin on Leipziger Platz is not a “classic museum”, but a complex multimedia experience.
German history compressed: The one-hour tour leads through twelve historical epochs on around 1,400 square metres.
The Deutschlandmuseum uses a variety of innovative media technology to present the exhibition. The contemporary history tour is interactive. The 1400 m² permanent exhibition presents defining moments from twelve epochs of German history. The journey through time begins in 9 A.D. in the Germanic forest with the Varus Battle. Other stages include the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the Middle Ages, Martin Luther and the Reformation, the Thirty Years’ War, the German thinkers of the Enlightenment, the path to the German nation state in the 19th century, the two World Wars, the FRG and GDR in the Cold War and the development of Germany after reunification.
The operator Robert Rueckel had already led numerous museum projects to success in the past, including the DDR Museum in Berlin and the Spy Museum, also in Berlin. The designers Creative Studio Berlin, with Chris Lange as head designer, have faithfully recreated numerous areas, for example a medieval battlements, a printer’s room or a trench. Smells, soundscapes and other perceptual stimuli were integrated into the tour to make it possible to experience history with all the senses. Creaking castle floorboards, deceptively real trees, the smell of gas in a trench, a glowing shopping arcade of the Golden Twenties or an S-Bahn carriage turn the museum into an adventure park. This increases the incentive for children and young people in particular to engage with history. The museum is also dedicated to serious and critical aspects of German history.
For us, the establishment of a museum that allows a completely different view of the mediation of German history was a great project and a matter of the heart.
- 32 projectors
- 4 fragrance machines
- 17 displays
- 4,700m speaker cable
- 10,200m power cable
- 4,750m network cable
- 156 sockets
- 86 loudspeakers
- 447 lamps
