Museum of Military History
Former royal arsenal split by a steel-and-glass wedge, housing a vast museum of war and violence.
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This guide to the Museum of Military History in Dresden starts with a question people have argued over since February nineteen forty-five: how many died when the bombers came. It follows the old Saxon arsenal through its many masters, and the architect Daniel Libeskind, who drove a wedge of glass and steel through its face. Stand outside facing the point of the wedge, and follow where it aims.
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