Special Camp No. 2 Museum The photograph above shows the Museum
which was built in 1995 at the Buchenwald Memorial Site to house
an exhibition about Special Camp Number 2; the museum opened in
1997. This photograph was taken from a road which is outside the
former prison enclosure at Buchenwald. In the foreground you can
see two reconstructed fence posts for the barbed wire fence
which ran around the Buchenwald camp, and in the background, the
red-roofed storehouse building which houses the much larger
Buchenwald museum in honor of the Communist who were imprisoned
by the Nazis. The Special Camp No. 2 museum building was built
into the hillside so that the roof is level with the ground, as
the picture below shows. In the foreground you can see the ruins
of one of the camp buildings, and in the background the gray
roof of the museum building which is level with the grass behind
it. Except for the roof, the museum is not visible from inside
the camp; you have to follow the road that runs around the
outside of t