My understanding--and if wrong, someone please correct me--is that the German History Museum in Berlin and the Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremberg have been closed for some time for renovation work, but that both could reopen sometime in 2026.
Does anyone have any additional information as to when the permanent museums are likely to reopen?
I doubt the German History Museum will reopen as early as 2026. They don't have the planning documents for the renovation yet. See this website: https://www.dhm.de/en/visit/renovations/
The Documentation Center in Nuremberg is expected to reopen next year, according to its website: https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/
As mentioned in the other post the Topography of Terror in Berlin also delivers a lot of Nazi impressions:
https://www.topographie.de/en/exhibitions/topography-of-terror
To all, many thanks. I have visited the Topography of Terror in Berlin as well as the German History Museum. Also, the German Resistance Museum in Berlin, which I don't believe is listed in RS's Germany book and does not receive a high number of visitors, is excellent.
As I explain on the other thread I started about Hamburg and Nuremberg, a reason for a visit to Nuremberg is the Documentation Center. Given the absence of a specific date or month for reopening, I am afraid that any reopening in 2026 will be closer to December than January.
Hi,
True, about the small number of visitors at the Resistance Museum. I first got there in 1989 when it opened up and have been back since then 2 or 3 times. Each time the only visitors I saw were German, one time a German language guided tour, which I didn't know was offered, ....very good to know.
I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors, Americans included.
I would suggest two other sites connected with this history and time period if you want to pursue more in Berlin and its environs.
One is the Ploetzensee Memorial (Gedenkstätte Ploetzensee)... pretty grim, poignant, where the conspirators of July were executed.
The other site deals with the Russo-German War, the Nazi war of extermination on the Eastern Front. This is the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst on Treschow Allee, housed in the Wehrmacht building where the Soviets received the German surrender a day after their surrender in Reims, France. In all the German signed 4 surrenders in 1945.
Take S-3 (Direction : Eckner ) to Karlshorst, the bus at the station goes to the Museum, (Endstation) or you can walk it, I've done both, ca. a 40 mins walk. Very enlightening and revealing in historical portrayal if one is into the Eastern Front in WW2.
