Deutsch-Deutsches Museum Mödlareuth

Client: Zweckverband Deutsch-Deutsches Museum Mödlareuth

Year: 2025

Museums and exhibitions

Like the city of Berlin, the small village of Mödlareuth, also known as "Little Berlin", was divided by a wall on the border between Bavaria and Thuringia during the Cold War.

One part of the village was in West Germany, the other in East Germany, and the German-German Museum Mödlareuth tells the story of this division, the background and the effects on the inhabitants of the village. To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was decided in 2019 to provide the museum with a new building, which is expected to be completed in 2025.

facts and fiction won a multi-stage competition to design the new permanent exhibition and revise the outdoor exhibition.

The outdoor area in the design and fully implemented © Grünplan

In the first construction phase, the museum's outdoor exhibition was completely revised and redesigned by the end of 2022. facts and fiction worked closely with Grünplan landscape architects to design and implement the signage system, various information steles, the presentation of the course of the Wall in the landscape and the presentation of various original exhibits in the outdoor area.

The entrance area of the museum in the competition design and in the design planning – all exhibits are already located here.

In the second construction phase, the new permanent exhibition for the new museum building planned by Atelier 30 Architekten will be designed and implemented by 2025.

The finished exhibition in the outdoor area © Grünplan