The Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg (MHVL) has announced that its permanent exhibition on the history of Luxembourg will be reopening on 5 May 2017.

The MHVL’s permanent exhibition, which has been closed since 10 October 2016, is set to reopen following refurbishment in May next year.

Since its opening in 1996, the museum’s permanent exhibition has offered a perspective on over 1000 year of Luxembourg City’s history. The exhibition was already modified n 2007 so as to better adapt to its visitors’ evolving expectations as well as to different collections.

The new permanent exhibition, which measures around 2,200 m2, will present a chronological story of the capital’s history, split up into six main periods. The topics will be updated and newly acquired historical objects will be integrated. There will also be new multimedia applications to show the most important aspects of the different periods of the city’s history.

Moreover, there will be new museum furnishings and signs to help guide visitors around the exhibition.

The new layout has been placed in the hands of the Tido Brussig Szenerien office from Munich, with whom the MHVL has already worked with in 2014 on its temporary exhibition on 100 years of the Luxembourg Red Cross.

Finally, the new exhibition will house a special space dedicated to urbanism, which allows visitors to better grasp the extent of transformations which the current city has undergone as well as understand its elements of development.