We are a team of professionals from the fields of history, museum studies, museum education, administration, architectural engineering, exhibition design and facility management with many years of experience in museums. We educate, collect, organize events, research, exhibit, manage and collaborate to develop future prospects for the Allied Museum. In our work we honor the contributions of the Allies to Berlin and Germany as a whole and spread the message of freedom, democracy and international cooperation as guarantors of lasting peace.
The Director and the Museum Team
Team
Bernd von Kostka
Research Associate,
Thematic focus: Great Britain
T +49 (0) 30 / 818 199-82
E kostka@alliiertenmuseum.de
Uta Birkemeyer
Research Associate,
Thematic focus: France
T +49 (0) 30 / 818 199-81
E birkemeyer@alliiertenmuseum.de
Florian Weiß
Research Associate,
Thematic focus: USA
T +49 (0) 30 / 818 199-83
E weiss@alliiertenmuseum.de
Allied Museum association
The Allied Museum is a registered nonprofit association with seven members.
Allied Museum advisory board
An international scholarly advisory board advises the Museum in its work.
The history of the Allied Museum
1991
The German Historical Museum conceives the idea of an exhibition about the history of the Western powers in Berlin.
1993
The United States of America, Great Britain, and France support the project. The German federal government charges an international committee of experts with the task of developing a concept for an Allied Museum.
1994
The Museum team begins its work in the Outpost Theater and the Nicholson Memorial Library.
1994
In September, the Western powers leave Berlin. The exhibition “They’ll Always Have a Suitcase in Berlin. The Western Allies and Berlin 1944–1994” opens at the Outpost Theater by the chancellor Hemlut Kohl. It is a resounding success, attracting more than 70,000 visitors in three months. Items from the collection of the future Museum are put on display for the first time.
1995
The international committee of experts presents the “Charter for an Allied Museum.”
1996
The non-profit association AlliiertenMuseum e.V. is founded.
1998
Officially opens the Allied Museum on the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift. Apart from high-ranking representatives of the Western powers, a large number of veterans formerly stationed in Berlin also attend the ceremony. Dr. Helmut Trotnow is the founding director.
2001
A space for temporary exhibitions is created in the Nicholson Memorial Library. At the same time, the second part of the permanent exhibition is redesigned.
2006
The Allied Museum has attracted half a million visitors since it opened in June 1998.
2009
Founding director Dr. Helmut Trotnow retires.
2010
Dr. Gundula Bavendamm becomes the Allied Museum’s new director, and writes the concept paper “From Airlift Museum to Museum of Freedom. A Future for the Allied Museum.”
2011
A volunteer is added to the team for the first time.
2013
The Allied Museum welcomes its one millionth visitor since opening in 1998.
2015
The federal government allocates funding for the Museum to move to the former airport Berlin Tempelhof.
2016
Change in leadership at the Allied Museum. Minister of Culture Prof. Monika Grütters comes to the Museum to personally bid farewell to Director Dr. Gundula Bavendamm. In April, Bernd von Kostka takes over the acting director of the Museum.
2018
Since March 1, 2018, Dr. Jürgen Lillteicher, a historian and former director of the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck, has served as director of the Allied Museum.
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