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Visitors to the modern six-storey House of European History,
funded by the European Parliament, can take an interactive tour
in 24 languages, starting in antiquity and leading past the two
great wars of the 20th century and the reconstruction process
towards a united continent that followed.
The museum will continue to evolve with future events such as
Brexit, the departure of the United Kingdom from the European
Union, the museum's content coordinator Andrea Mork explained.
"Depending on tomorrow's events, we are trying to update as much
as possible. But as a museum we need a certain distance to
evaluate what is important," she said.
The museum, which cost 55.4 million euros ($60.8 million) plus 7
million euros in annual expenses, was criticized as "a wildly
extravagant vanity project" by Jonathan Arnott, a member of the
European Parliament for British eurosceptic party UKIP.
The parliament's president Antonio Tajani dismissed the
criticism, saying the museum was an investment in culture as
well as the education of future generations.
(Reporting by Camille Bottin)
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