BERLIN (AP) – The British Museum is serving Germans a view from London of centuries of their own history.
The show presented Friday at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau museum, “The British View: Germany – Memories of a Nation,” is based on an exhibition that opened in London two years ago.
Some 200 exhibits – among them a huge 16th-century print commissioned from Albrecht Duerer’s workshop by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I; a replica of the entrance gate to the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp; elaborate 17th-century drinking vessels; and a pro-reunification placard from 1989 – illustrate Germany’s complex political and cultural history.
The exhibition was originally designed to show Britons more about a neighbor that didn’t unify as a nation until the late 19th century and about whose history before the 20th century they generally know little.
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Exhibition site: http://tinyurl.com/hzvyl8r