Topography of Terror (Berlin)

 museum, Holocaust

www.topographie.de/en/topography-of-terror/nc/1/

Museum located on the site of the Nazi Gestapo and SS headquarters. Both buildings were demolished after the war but the basement of the Gestapo building was rediscovered in 1987, having merely been buried, not obliterated, and today serves as part of the museum.

In 1992, two years after German reunification, a foundation was established to take care of the site. The following year, it initiated an architectural competition to design a permanent museum. A design by architect Peter Zumthor was chosen. However, construction was stopped due to funding problems after the concrete core of the structure had been built. This stood on the site for nearly a decade until it was finally demolished in 2004.

A new museum was finally built on the same site and opened in 2010.