Berlin: One of the most ambitious cultural projects of Germany, which will display a collection of other African, Asia and non-European art in a replica of part of the Prussian Palace destroyed by the East German Communist government after World War II, opened to the public on Tuesday.
Humboldt Forum – Located in the heart of Berlin, next to the Neoclasics Museum Island complex – designed by Italian architect Franco Stella and featuring three replica facades, one modern and modern interior.
It costs € 680 million ($ 802 million).
This project produced 2002 votes by the German parliament to reconstruct the 18th century palace.
The original was destroyed in 1950 and then replaced by the East German Parliament Building, itself is now being torn down.
It will display exhibitions from two Berlin state museums, ethnological museums and museums for Asian art.
It starts with six exhibitions, including one about Berlin’s history, the others in the ivory, and one at Brother Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, explorers and educators whose name is bear forum.
“This exhibition varies greatly, from very different institutions,” said director Hartmut Dorgeroh told the DPA German news agency.
“I think it’s very good because it shows the bandwidth of the subject but also various ways in which the exhibition can be done today.” Creating the Royal Palace of the 18th century universally universally universally.
Some former East Berlin has a wonderful memories of the Republican Palace, the 1970s East German parliament building, which also accommodates restaurants and alley bowling but is considered western players.
The Berlin Museum Authority hopes to be displayed at the Humboldt forum, some artifacts known as Benin Bronzes, which is looted from the Kingdom of the Kingdom of Benin by the British colonial expedition in 1897.
The ethnology museum has one of the collections of the world’s largest historical objects of the royal, and Berlin Want to discuss the possibility of a future show in Germany in negotiations in artifacts who return to Nigeria.
Berlin opened an ambitious cultural forum in Palace’s replica
