The tank museum is looking for photos

01/06/2017By Redaktion

Archiv Geschichte Panzer Panzermuseum

The German Tank Museum Munster is looking for photos and albums from the time of the world wars to the present day. The museum is promoting the new project through newspaper advertisements and Facebook. "Whether it's the photo albums of grandparents from the world wars in the attic or memories of service in the NVA or Bundeswehr. Photographs of Bundeswehr deployments - all these objects can be of great interest to us," explains curator Laura Haendel. The Tank Museum Munster is interested in anything related to the use of the army and tanks, handling tanks in armies and exercises, as well as photographic documents from wartime and peacetime. The museum is also very interested in civilian perspectives such as pictures of British exercises in Lower Saxony.

"The Tank Museum is in the conceptual phase of renewing the permanent exhibition. As a complement to the tanks already on display, evidence is sought that makes the people in and around the tanks visible," Haendel further explains. For this reason, the Tank Museum wants to expand its photo collection with the help of residents of the region or beyond to preserve important cultural artifacts for future generations.Donors can choose whether to donate their photographs and photo albums to the museum collection or only make them available for digitization and receive them back. The photographs will then be stored in the museum's collection as originals or digital copies and will be available to scientists for research and exhibition design purposes.