The centre comprises four rooms which in architecture and content form a unity. The heart of the centre is the private study of this Dutch

priest, which has been left untouched.

The visitor first of all enters a corridor. His eye is caught immediately by an attractive and interesting installation, comprising seven elements against a light grey wall. What runs through the exhibition as an internal thread is here hinted at atmospherically, via the colour. At this point already, the observer becomes a traveller who, so to speak, observes a landscape as though through the window of a train compartment. In such compressed movement there is little space for details, it is rather a matter of intuitive perception.

Breaches in the corridor wall also provide an initial glimpse of the internal exhibition rooms. Large format photographic and textual displays relate the life story of a courageous warrior in the cause of God. Through copious quotations, he speaks to us personally. A timeline illustrates the context, in world and Church history, of his active life - World War, Council, Iron Curtain, 1968 revolution, terrorism, collapse of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Twin Towers.

The adjoining room, Werenfried's study, gives the impression that he has just stepped out of the room for a moment. His spectacles still lie on his work desk. Time seems to stand still. The visitor can picture how this great pastor used to work here, meeting people, listening to their needs - and also inviting them to share a drop to drink.

His humanity and his humour are documented in a collection of sketches which he dashed off to pass the time during board meetings. Also worth seeing is “Sir Kuno the Knight”, who was made to wear all the medals and honours that had been awarded to the modest Bacon Priest.

But there is one display window with which neither the readable and informative placards nor the other interesting exhibits can compete. Its content is quite ordinary, but the aura surrounding it is quite special. The gaze is transfixed by an old hat. Over many decades, poor and rich, pious souls and free spirits alike have placed their own personal offerings in it. It was here that one could tell whether people’s love of neighbour was merely theoretical, or taken seriously. The annual report immediately next to it documents impressively the worldwide projects made possible by the "Mirror". These continue to increase, even after the death of this grace-filled preacher. Visitors should know by now that the old hat can hold only paper money... A slot in the glass window enables one to do this still...