Postwar Exhibition Design - Martin Schmidl
Displaying Dachau
KORTE INHOUD
Martin Schmidl writes of the history of exhibition design from 1945 to today. His specific object of investigation, the exhibition of Nazi atrocities in a concentration camp in Dachau, near Munich, mirrors the international development of exhibition design in the last 60 years. From this first exhibition in Dachau, which was organised in a makeshift manner by US soldiers and former concentration camp prisoners directly after its liberation, up to todays history museums, Schmidl also presents the fundamental problem with memorials - the growing distance between a narrative history and professional visualisation.
