Historical Archive of the City of Cologne: Please sign the petition against the planning stop

The 2009 Cologne Archives collapse was a disaster for historians. "[I]n 2009, after an architectural competition, a decision on a new archive building was made. It was planned to accommodate not only the archive institution itself but also the Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek, a renowned art and museum library, and the Rheinische Bildarchiv, a collection of photographs on the history of art, architecture, culture and photography in Cologne. The plan was to build the “safest and state-of-the-art c..