When I was last there I overheard a guide telling his German-speaking group of visitors that this gun is the sole survivor of its type – but that it nearly did not make it. But there are also intriguing stories attached to it. The size of this brute is impressive enough on its own. Overall the compromise achieved is commendable. But those larger exhibits that still require considerable space are still given it in a sufficient manner. It's now partly been arranged on two levels, which takes away some of the cavernous space the old exhibition sat in. Thus parts of the exhibition are a bit crammed in places (and when there are a lot of visitors, bottlenecks can cause congestion). Since the new exhibition is so much richer than the old one, it also requires a lot more space. Content-wise it's organized in a very good mix of chronology (from mobilization and the various stages of the war to the post-war consequences) and thematic clustering. Whereas previously this section had little more than just big pieces of hardware (guns and parts of fortifications) with hardly any commodification, the new exhibition is an altogether more elaborate affair that now also comes with plenty of intriguing smaller original artefacts, bilingual explanatory texts throughout and even a few multimedia elements.
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