German Historical Museum
The Deutsches Historisches Museum—the German Historical Museum, or DHM—tells one clear story: German history as shared history with Europe. You enter it through the 17th-century Zeughaus on Unter den Linden, the old armoury that ties Berlin’s state power to the museum’s mission of “enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans.” The museum was founded on 28 October 1987, timed to the 750th anniversary of Berlin’s founding. It was inaugurated in the Reichstag building in former West Berlin, after a broader push that began with an exhibition on Prussia shown in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in 1981. Then, in January 1982, four historians—Hartmut Boockmann, Eberhard Jäckel, Hagen Schulze, and Michael Stürmer—published a memorandum titled *Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin*. …
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