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
through to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. It holds works spanning 1,000 years of art, cultural and media history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection comprises some 550,000 prints
director from 1990 to 1995 Elstner: I started work in Dahlem on 1 September 1991. A colleague showed me round the building. Only a few colleagues were a bit reserved. But the ice soon melted and
the Bode Museum or whether the new building would have to be moved 1:1 from the Kulturforum to the former barracks site opposite Museum Island. All water under the bridge – just like the idea of moving
would also take other possible claims into account. On December 1, 2025, the Arbitration Tribunal for Nazi-Looted Art replaced the Commission. Recommendation of the Advisory Commission “The Advisory
nobility, the so-called Ritterakademie, with an annual salary of 1,500 talers. And on top of that, Sulzer was presented with a new plot of land by the water in Moabit, spacious enough to build another