{"id":22201,"date":"2026-02-23T18:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22201\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:36:10","slug":"ukraine-war-museum-opens-in-former-wwii-bunker-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/22201\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war museum opens in former WWII bunker in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian and Iranian drones, cruise missiles, helicopter debris and a destroyed aid vehicle are among the exhibits illustrating the tragic reality of everyday life in Ukraine during Russia’s all-out war of aggression, now entering its fifth year.<\/p>\n

The Berlin Story Bunker, an organization known for its history tours of Nazi-era air raid shelters, is now opening what director Enno Lenze says is the world’s first museum of its kind.<\/p>\n

Displaying the largest collection of Ukraine war artefacts outside the country and housed in a former World War II bunker, the Ukraine Museum<\/a> spans 300 square metres and focuses on “personal stories, the brutality of the war, and everything Russia wants to keep secret.”<\/p>\n

“We are not offering an academic analysis, but showing Russia\u2019s brutal energy of destruction,” say the curators of the museum, opening in February with texts provided in English and German.<\/p>\n

Exhibits are set to change regularly, and the curation team say they travel to Ukraine monthly to bring back new objects and information. One part of the museum focuses on a painful dilemma that has faced many since the start of Russia’s all-out invasion: leave Ukraine or stay?<\/p>\n

Oleg Degusarov, survivor of a Russian drone attack on an aid van, joined a press event ahead of the museum’s launch to narrate the story of how he was severely injured and a passenger was killed in the strike. The targeted Fiat Scudo van, which was helping victims of bombings, is now in the museum bearing a gaping hole from the drone attack.<\/p>\n

On the first anniversary of Russia\u2019s assault on Ukraine, the Berlin Story Bunker team placed a destroyed Russian tank in front of Russia\u2019s embassy in Berlin.<\/p>\n

The T-72 tank wreck remained on Berlin’s central Unter den Linden boulevard, near the well-known Brandenburg Gate, for several days in 2023 as a memorial against the war.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A Ch-101 cruise missile and drone are among the exhibits at a Berlin museum that claims to be the first of its kind in the world, displaying the largest collection of Ukraine war artifacts outside of the country. Soeren Stache\/dpa<\/p>\n

\"Initially,<\/p>\n

Initially, there was hope that Russia’s war of aggression would end quickly. It has now been going on for four years. A new exhibition aims to illustrate what this means for the people of Ukraine. Soeren Stache\/dpa<\/p>\n

\"Passers-by<\/p>\n

Passers-by in Berlin stand in front of a Russian tank destroyed in Ukraine. Carsten Koall\/dpa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian and Iranian drones, cruise missiles, helicopter debris and a destroyed aid vehicle are among the exhibits illustrating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,14931,190,238,241,717,14930],"class_list":{"0":"post-22201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-drone-attack","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-ukraine-war","14":"tag-war-of-aggression"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}