The Humboldt Forum in Berlin is finally about ready to open to the world.
The mammoth building, which will house Germany’s ethnographic and Asian collections, transforms the landscape of the city’s Museum Island. But the world around it has transformed as well since the €680 million project first broke ground over 10 years ago.
Nevertheless, its director, veteran art historian Harmut Dorgerloh, is eager to prove that the long-delayed museum is not so out of step with the spirit of the times. (Unfortunately, in order to do that, he will have to keep waiting: due to the coronavirus, the opening will now be digital-only on Wednesday, December 16.)