Germany stands at a threshold it has long hoped never to revisit. The Alternative for Germany party, once a fringe voice, now approaches state-level governance for the first time — and with it, the power to reshape what art a society is permitted to see, make, and remember. The party's call for 'patriotic' culture carries the unmistakable grammar of an older and darker chapter, prompting the country's museums and galleries to ask whether the legal and moral frameworks built after that chapter can hold against a government that may not wish them to.