POLICE MUSEUM
Region Germany Task Exhibition Design Responsibility Concept and design Done at University of Applied Sciences/ Dusseldorf
Brief
The task was to create a permanent exhibition to honour and remember a police resistance group during the Nazi regime in Dusseldorf.
Strategy
Aktion Rheinland (German for Operation Rhineland) was an operation carried out by the Anti-Nazi resistance group in Düsseldorf. The goal was to surrender the city of Düsseldorf to the advancing Allied Forces without any fighting, thereby preventing further destruction.
Five of the ten men that led the group were betrayed and then executed by the Nazi Regime in the last days of the war. The exhibition would be located at the Dusseldorf police headquarters and should educate visitors about what happened in 1945.
MOODBOARD (Photo copyright: aktion-rheinland.de, dpa, SG Koezle, hexerei.net)
Remembering “Aktion Rheinland” The resistance group was honored with movies, large portraits and explanatory boards and signs. There was also a wayfinding system in place because the exhibition areas inside the building weren‘t straight away visible to visitors.
