The exhibition explores examples from 800 years of German history: from Hildegard von Bingen's concept of "viriditas", the green creative power, in the 12th century to the early anti-nuclear movement in Wyhl and the differing concepts of nature in both Germanys in the late 20th century. The appropriation of what was supposedly natural was also one of the ideological foundations of the NS dictatorship, which sought to bring both the "outer" and the "inner" nature under its power of definition and violence with a multitude of laws. The "Nuremberg Laws" and the "Reich Nature Protection Act" were enacted in the same year: 1935.
In five chronologically arranged rooms with various stations, the periods are traversed. These stations present, in the form of "vignettes", events or developments in which the concept of nature was distinctively changed or shaped. The exhibition considers the changing meaning and terminology of "Nature" and works it out as a political factor in German history.