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The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin has opened the flagship exhibition of this year's Weimar centenary celebrations.WEIMAR: THE ESSENCE AND VALUE OF DEMOCRACY runs until September and highlights the central challenges in politics and society faced by contemporaries of the Weimar Republic. The exhibition is expressly addressed at "current debates about the crisis of liberal democracy" and features a Democracy Lab, aiming "to build awareness for the fact that this form of government lives on the participation and engagement of all citizens, is marked by the continuous negotiating of different opinions and positions, and in this way is constantly able to further develop itself."