may 14th minitask

           The Neues Museum fell victim to the Soviet invasion of 1945 and experienced some damage from damage from allied bombings in World War 2 along with the other buildings on museum island.  Though the Neues Museum has been restored to a very adequate state some wounds still remain.  In this photo you can see several  bullet wounds that were created in the skirmishes.  Though the bullet holes hardly threaten the structure the do lead very visible marks. The reputation of the museum being a frozen ruin is created because the museum is marked and that it has experienced a lack of change.  Of course the museum has added to its collection and meddled with its exhibits and embraced modern technology, but it doesn't act like something happened to it.  It barely addresses what happened to it seventy years ago, even though one can clearly see that something has happened.  This by no means a deadly sin, they museum focuses greatly on antiquity.  It would be incredibly weird to insert some large 1940s history exhibit between the Neanderthal skeletons and the Egyptian mummies.  Its reputation as a ruin is not something to be stressed over.  The wounds of the Soviet invasion do not need to covered up, because the building itself is an artifact, it can tell its own tale, it does not require the experts of Iron Age society within to worry about something so unrelated to their field.  The some museums have their location chosen because the building helps tell the tale of what's inside.  A museum I volunteer at, the Bienfait Museum of Coalfields is based within a decommissioned railway station, this helps us tell people our story because it relates to what we talk about.  The skirmishes of Soviets and Nazis don’t have anything to do with the Romans or the ancient Germans so why bother addressing it.  This however  leaves it with an image of being a ruin that has not  reacted to the war since it was shot.  I do not feel it is an issue but, the implication does have some truth to it.