Museum der Moderne moving forward.
Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, informed the members of the budget committee of the German Bundestag responsible for the cultural budget about the schedule and cost planning for the Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin. The calculation assumes construction costs of 364.2 million euros for the new building. On the basis of the now concrete plans, completion of the building is scheduled for 2026. The ground-breaking ceremony will take place in the coming weeks.
The Museum der Moderne will complement the Neue Nationalgalerie. Both buildings will form a location of appropriate size for 20th century art. The new building will create the conditions for displaying the internationally significant collection of the Nationalgalerie and accepting the offers of the collectors Marx, Pietzsch and Marzona. In the meantime, the artist Gerhard Richter has also agreed to make a large number of his works available for a Richter Hall in the new museum.
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The museum of the 20th century is an independent architecture, like Mies's building and Scharoun's architecture. In addition to its function for the presentation of art, however, it also has another, very important task: connecting and crosslinking the surrounding buildings and exterior spaces to form an urban whole - a cultural forum for the 21st century. Together with the client and users, we have made decisive progress: large gates and entrances create a spatial link between the museum and the surrounding squares and street spaces. The East-West Boulevard is a public path through the building. The wide tympanum turns towards the Philharmonie and the Chamber Music Hall. The north façade is extensively glazed and allows direct views from the museum to Scharounplatz and Potsdamer Strasse. At the same time, the museum can be experienced from the outside. In short: the museum becomes part of life on the square, the heart of the Kulturforum. Jacques Herzog
