Armour Box 002/Munitions Box for the German Parliament
The Munitions Box was commissioned for an exhibition in
favour of banning landmines and cluster bombs in the German Parliament.
Shells of mines and cluster bombs were fixed to the box with metal
hooks so that politicians could get physically close to the weapons
without being able to steal them. Although the empty munition shells
were fixed in place, the Munitions
Box raised security concerns in Parliament. They locked and sealed the
box in the run-up to the
exhibition. For the opening, however, they asked the
Parliament's Vice Chancellor to unlock the box for media coverage and a
photo of this process was published on German Parliament's
homepage. After the media had left, the box was banned from the
exhibition for security reasons. The very
people who decide for and against the use of these weapons needed
protection from a wooden box containing empty munition shells.
Banning the Box led to a lawsuit. A recipe book on "how to carry mines
into parliament without causing trouble" is being prepared.