Austrian architect Günther Domenig designed the museum, winning the 1998 international competition with his proposal to spear through the northern head of the building with a diagonal glass and steel passageway.

At the same time, the exhibition endeavored to explain what led to the National Socialists' criminal exercise of power and to reveal how the various causal factors were interrelated.

The exhibition concluded with an examination of the problem that has been with Germany since 1945: how Germans should deal with the legacy in stone left at the Party Rally Grounds by the National Socialists.

The exhibition "Fascination and Terror" was closed at the end of 2020 and the City of Nuremberg started expanding the Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds.

The Staging, the Experience, the Violence," in the large Exhibition Hall of the Documentation Center, presents a concise history of the Nazi Party Rallies and the Grounds.

A union of seven Nuremberg educational institutions under the management of the museen der stadt nürnberg makes possible an extensive and target group oriented program.

The offer extended from 45 minute exhibition tours to several day seminars aimed at school classes for both youth and adult groups.

The citation remarked on the opposition of the geometry between the project by Domenig versus the existing structure, and the resulting creation of a profound memorial.