In a virtual museum that can only be visited online, you will soon be able to immerse yourself in the history of migration in Germany.
Today, the wooden chest can be turned in the air with a wave of the finger and calmly viewed from all sides. However, it weighed a lot when displaced people stowed their few belongings in it after the Second World War and dragged them westwards. This history makes it an exhibit in the virtual museum of the association "Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany" (Domid). In other words, a museum that only exists on the internet and appears three-dimensional with the help of so-called VR glasses. It is due to open or go online shortly.
The rooms in which the virtual museum is presented are sparse. As if someone had just moved out. No matter, they are just the "gateway" to the virtual world of the Migration Museum. And this consists of eight locations and buildings in three time periods in one city. Visitors to the museum move around in this world with their VR glasses. They can discover around 1,000 objects with stored information and 40 interviews with contemporary witnesses that revolve around the history of immigrants, such as a "handle man" from a Turkish worker at Ford.
No construction date in sight
This comes from the first period from 1945 to 1973, followed by the phase up to reunification and finally the period up to the present day. The opening of the museum, on the other hand, lies in a fourth phase, namely in the future. The museum's website is now online. However, access to the virtual museum should only be possible in "about two weeks", says Domid Managing Director Robert Fuchs.
The association had always planned to open a real museum in cooperation with the city in addition to the virtual one. "The fact that they are now only opening the virtual museum means that they no longer trust the city to build a museum in stone?" asked Harald Rau, head of Cologne's social affairs department, at the presentation. Domid Managing Director Fuchs emphatically denied this - but was also unable to promise a date for the construction.
Source: Rundschau-online
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