embroidery with Anni Albers’ Bauhaus textiles from 1927 and the 1,500-year-old Huari men’s shirt from Peru, a dialogue transcending time and space emerges concerning making and thinking in the material
of Benin, located in present-day Nigeria, stretches back almost 1,000 years. The dynasty of the current king has held the throne for around 500 years, making it one of the oldest ruling families in
structures as they were before reunification. We only merged them on 1 January 1992. We avoided the impression of a simple takeover by the West. In all cases where a Western director had to be retained in
with the masterplan, it became clear that the final figure would be 1.5 billion euros. No other museum site, no other institution, no other country had to tackle anything comparable. Schade: The enthusiasm
shipments from the Zoo anti-aircraft tower, including crate MVF 1 containing Schliemann’s gold. Yet it was not until years later, in 1994, that the Museum of Prehistory and Early History was able to
. The Friends of the Egyptian Museum, which at the time had over 1,000 members, was, after all, a purely West Berlin club! And when I announced to them in our in-house magazine that the opening of the
imagined what turbulent times lay ahead. He took up his post on 1 April 1990 and tackled the unexpected challenge with incredible energy. I later learnt from him that my East Berlin director had
, but is a masterpiece of space efficiency: what stretches over 1.50 metres in length on a bassoon – the tube – has here been coiled into a spiral and packed inside a handy case. You cannot see the
the emergence of equestrian nomadism and the Scythians in the 1st millennium BC. One of the most significant discoveries in this context concerns the supply of raw materials in the 2nd millennium