A brave move in a country where fascism was given an aesthetic identity in the Neo-classical excesses of Hitler's architect Abert speer, the literaturmuseum der Modene- dubbed Liolmo- stands like a Neo-palladian temple Birthplace of the drametist Friedrich schiller the site is already the home of the National Schiller Museum and the archive for German Literature buit in the 1970s. The terraced museum by Chipperfield forms the third side of a large courtyard that act as a gateway between the lower park and preexisting nation monuments to German literature