Anne Frank Centre

Anne Frank Centre, Berlin - darkometer rating : 2 - A small exhibition in central Berlin about the life, hiding, betrayal and death of Anne Frank on the one hand, and a youth-oriented peace-and-tolerance-promoting institution on the other. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: As you might suspect, the Anne Frank Centre has co-operation ties with the "original", the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam , as well as with similar outposts in other countries. Like these, it is run by a private foundation, which goes back to initiatives started in 1994, when initially a travelling exhibition was being put together. The first permanent exhibition was set up in 1998, and the Berlin Anne Frank Centre moved to its present location in 2002. It is of course a "dislocated" exhibition, as the real Anne Frank had no connections with Berlin. But like with some Holocaust exhibitions in unrelated locations (e.g. the US Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. ), some kind of demand was felt for such institutions in these places too. In the case of the Berlin Anne Frank Centre it's mainly an educational approach, with an extra emphasis on countering xenophobia and racism and promoting peace, understanding and tolerance. The link with Anne Frank, then, is due to the fact that her diary represents the most famous individual and personal story of the Holocaust from the perspective of a teenager. From all this it also becomes clear that the exhibition's main clientele is not so much more or less seasoned dark tourists, but rather school groups and other teenagers, who may not even come here altogether voluntarily but as part of pedagogical programmes.