The 12m euro (£8m, US$15m) Museum of Modern Literature opened on 6 June in Marbach, Germany, hometown of German writer Friedrich Schiller.
Designed by British architect David Chipperfield, the 3,800sq m (40,900sq ft) museum boasts more than 1,300 exhibits, including the original manuscripts of Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, as well as the death mask of Friedrich Nietzsche.
The museum is home to the Deutsches Literaturarchiv (Archive for German Literature), which was founded in 1955. Details: www.dla-marbach.de