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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kate Connolly in Berlin

‘A living, moving exhibition’: Ukraine Museum opens in Berlin air-raid bunker

A young visitor sits underneath a reconstruction of a Russian cruise missile
A young visitor sits underneath a reconstruction of a Russian cruise missile, intended to give a sense ‘of how big it is when it’s flying towards you’. Photograph: Ralf Hirschberger/AFP/Getty Images

Descending into the windowless basement of a second world war air-raid bunker built for civilians in central Berlin is arguably an eerie enough evocation of what it means to endure life in a conflict.

But in a modern twist, before they have even walked into the first room of the city’s new Ukraine Museum inside the bunker, visitors are “targeted” by a Russian drone just before its operator prepares to release the lethal shot, and see themselves in the firing line on the screen of the weapon’s camera.

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