Berlin’s new €595m museum and events space, the Humboldt Forum, will open next year in the city’s reconstructed royal palace. Catherine Hickley meets its director to discuss the challenges of grappling with and displaying a colonial past.
“The visiting card of the nation” is how the German culture minister Monika Grütters has described the Humboldt Forum, a vast €595m museum and events space that will open next year in Berlin’s reconstructed royal palace. The role of chief host goes to Hartmut Dorgerloh, who in June became the director of an institution that expects to welcome around three million visitors a year.
Funded 80% by the federal government, the new culture complex will house Berlin’s non-European ethnological collections and Asian art collections, which have moved from the state museums in the city’s south-western district of Dahlem; permanent displays on the history of the city; spaces for temporary exhibitions; and an open research laboratory run by Humboldt University. The Humboldt Forum aims to stage around 1,000 events a year... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper
“The visiting card of the nation” is how the German culture minister Monika Grütters has described the Humboldt Forum, a vast €595m museum and events space that will open next year in Berlin’s reconstructed royal palace. The role of chief host goes to Hartmut Dorgerloh, who in June became the director of an institution that expects to welcome around three million visitors a year.
Funded 80% by the federal government, the new culture complex will house Berlin’s non-European ethnological collections and Asian art collections, which have moved from the state museums in the city’s south-western district of Dahlem; permanent displays on the history of the city; spaces for temporary exhibitions; and an open research laboratory run by Humboldt University. The Humboldt Forum aims to stage around 1,000 events a year... Keep reading on The Art Newspaper