Realisation: 2024
Client: Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Beneath the park on the Ilm River in Weimar, at a depth of up to 12 meters, lies a complex system of tunnels: the Park Cave. Planned as a brewery's rock cellar, used for travertine mining, later converted into a bunker, it was ultimately used as an air-raid shelter for the population of Weimar during World War II. Of cause Goethe was here as well and collected fossils.
In this extraordinary environment with up to 100% humidity, the new exhibition, in a robust underground style, offers insights into the most exciting of these episodes. A 7-meter-wide animated panorama allows visitors to experience the transformations of the Weimar region from the last Ice Age to the present day. Tactile fossils bring a mammoth to life. Contemporary witnesses who found shelter here during World War II have their say, and a seismograph provides a link to the cave's current use by the university.
An exhibition more like an adventure than a museum.
