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Architecture and art: Controversy on the banks of the Spree
The Humboldt Forum, the newest addition to Berlin’s Museum Island, is as ambivalent architecturally as its content is ethically problematic. MIK SABIERS has the story
PILLAGE: (L to R) Benin bronzes like this - at the Bode Museum - will no longer be displayed at the Humboldt; the ship from Luf, Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea c1890
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BERLIN’S Museumsinsel (Museum Island) is a cultural collection of ancient, old and modern art galleries in the heart of Germany’s capital city.
From the Pergamon Museum housing Islamic antiquities to the Bode Museum with Byzantine art there’s now a new, yet old, addition in the recently opened Humboldt Forum.
Built on the site of the former East German parliament, itself built on the site of a former royal palace, the Humboldt houses a controversial collection of artefacts, but is also contentious in itself.
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