But yeah, you're not wrong. It's the 14 years that I find unacceptable. I can come at four. But there is literally no reason I can see to close half the museum for 14 years.
It's Berlin. They could literally build two brand new Pergamon museums on Tempelhofer Feld or any of the other empty spaces in that city, in that time...
Or even just shove the artefacts into the largely empty City Palace/Humboldt Forum, on the same island...
So it's mostly the timeframe, and what specifically is being locked away, that I find nefarious...
Paris got around this by opening the Grand Palais Ephemere (temporary) while the proper Grand Palais was being reno'd. Istanbul did much the same thing while they demolished (and sadly never rebuilt, even though they were supposed/promised to) Istanbul Modern.
Pergamon Museum could do something similar, but because they bizarrely don't seem to want the public to see the Ishtar Gate and other related artefacts for that 14 years, they're doing it this way, methinks...
good point, but let me share a bit of advice from my time working both for Wal-mart and a major cabinet making conglomerate; Never, ever underestimate a bureaucracy's ability to do things in as inefficient a way as possible, lmao.
...and don't ask me where this is coming from, because I haven't teased the info out of the back of my brainpan, but there's some snippet rattling around back there that makes me think the German people are about as naturally bureaucratic a race as exists on the planet.. I almost want to say they're pathologically against thinking for themselves or innovating... I'm probably wrong about this, but the thought wont go away.
Steelman - ha.
But yeah, you're not wrong. It's the 14 years that I find unacceptable. I can come at four. But there is literally no reason I can see to close half the museum for 14 years.
It's Berlin. They could literally build two brand new Pergamon museums on Tempelhofer Feld or any of the other empty spaces in that city, in that time...
Or even just shove the artefacts into the largely empty City Palace/Humboldt Forum, on the same island...
So it's mostly the timeframe, and what specifically is being locked away, that I find nefarious...
Paris got around this by opening the Grand Palais Ephemere (temporary) while the proper Grand Palais was being reno'd. Istanbul did much the same thing while they demolished (and sadly never rebuilt, even though they were supposed/promised to) Istanbul Modern.
Pergamon Museum could do something similar, but because they bizarrely don't seem to want the public to see the Ishtar Gate and other related artefacts for that 14 years, they're doing it this way, methinks...
good point, but let me share a bit of advice from my time working both for Wal-mart and a major cabinet making conglomerate; Never, ever underestimate a bureaucracy's ability to do things in as inefficient a way as possible, lmao.
...and don't ask me where this is coming from, because I haven't teased the info out of the back of my brainpan, but there's some snippet rattling around back there that makes me think the German people are about as naturally bureaucratic a race as exists on the planet.. I almost want to say they're pathologically against thinking for themselves or innovating... I'm probably wrong about this, but the thought wont go away.