Slated for demolition in the early 1950s, like the barracks, this building was then preserved. After renovation, the building was opened as the museum in 1964.
In 1971 an Ernst Thälmann commemorative site was established in the basement, where a secret funeral service had taken place in 1944 for the former chairman of the German Communist Party (KPD). This memorial was redesigned in 1986 and closed in 1990.
After the opening of the new "Museum of the Anti-fascist Resistance" in 1985 in the storage building, the disinfection building was restored to its original state. The National Buchenwald Monument opened an art exhibition here, which is the first and only of its kind in Germany.
The exhibition organized in 1998 as