How to fight the far right? Invite them in – the German museum taking on hate

Dresden has declared itself in the grip of a ‘Nazi emergency’. But when one museum boss was targeted by extremists for promoting ‘non-German art’, she asked them to pop byWhen museum director Hilke Wagner went to the opening of a new public artwork in Dresden’s market square, she anticipated a friendly gathering of culture lovers. Instead, she and her colleagues found themselves surrounded by far-right protesters with megaphones, vilifying the sculpture’s orga