I note that Stockholm has done the same thing with their Medieval Museum, although that one is and even more political decision, and may be permanently closed.
I've been to the Pergamon Museum. It was extremely impressive, and the Ishtar Gate is one of the coolest exhibits I have ever seen. To close it, for fourteen years, is completely absurd, and, whatever the real political reasons behind it, could probably only happen in a city that took nearly a decade to open its white elephant new airport, lol...
Fourteen years. Longer than it takes the Emiratis to build entire, full-scale museums, and China to build entire ghost cities...
Absolutely absurd. But very "on brand" for Berlin, to say the least.
Even Paris isn't this bad with things like this, lol. Istanbul is, but at least with Turkey we know it's blatant corruption, lol. The Germans are just better at "cloaking" it.
Here's the "official" line:
https://archive.is/1lvkA
I note that Stockholm has done the same thing with their Medieval Museum, although that one is and even more political decision, and may be permanently closed.
I've been to the Pergamon Museum. It was extremely impressive, and the Ishtar Gate is one of the coolest exhibits I have ever seen. To close it, for fourteen years, is completely absurd, and, whatever the real political reasons behind it, could probably only happen in a city that took nearly a decade to open its white elephant new airport, lol...
Fourteen years. Longer than it takes the Emiratis to build entire, full-scale museums, and China to build entire ghost cities...
Absolutely absurd. But very "on brand" for Berlin, to say the least.
Even Paris isn't this bad with things like this, lol. Istanbul is, but at least with Turkey we know it's blatant corruption, lol. The Germans are just better at "cloaking" it.