Where is that part of history

Manfred Gorn writes:
 
THIS is so to speak “die klip in die bos” and my personal thoughts. It is a long time ago that I visited the museum.

But I got an invitation recently and so I went to refresh my memories. I was very impressed with what the people working at the museum created and how they maintain the exhibits. Because one can see that there is no money, the animals in the showcases need urgently to be restored; the wooden floors are worn and need repair.

But the money is most probably needed elsewhere, for instance for a new museum which guzzles millions. My very personal meaning is that a museum should inform about the history of a country as well as the present, including the past which partly forms the present.

And a museum should do that without comments, it should leave the visitor to build his or her own idea. One thing a museum should not be, so I think, is an advertisement for a political party.

Our museum leaves the impression that the country came into being in 1990. And before that?

All the very old and very valuable items which bear witness to bygone times, whether these times were bad or good, are here irrelevant, are gone. Not just stored away somewhere in order to protect visitors from a past which also belonged to our lovely country, no, the antiques from the “Alte Feste”, state house, “Schloss Duwiseb” have vanished.

I know nobody will (or would want to) explain to me where all these treasures are now. Destroyed, sold for own account gracing private homes?