Artnet

The Big Move to Berlin’s Humboldt Forum Has Begun, as Pressure for Restitution of Colonial-Era Objects Grows

The German Lost Art Foundation's expertise in researching Nazi-era loot will expand as demands for colonial-era restitution grows at home and abroad. The transport of the South Sea boats from the ...
Artnet

How Will Berlin’s Embattled Humboldt Forum Deal With Its Imperialist Past? Its New Asian and Ethnological Museums Provide Clues

After July’s inauguration of the Humboldt Forum, an institution that’s arguably the most controversial German cultural project in decades, the Berlin venue is now partly opening its most embattled ...
Tagesspiegel

Humboldt Forum in Berlin: Das Museum Europäischer Kulturen gehört hinein!

Sie nutzen Google? Sie können sich Artikel des Tagesspiegels in der Google-Suche nun bevorzugt anzeigen lassen. Mehr erfahren oder direkt aktivieren. Das Humboldt Forum feiert Geburtstag. So ziemlich ...
Yahoo

Berlin Humboldt Forum to return Benin bronze sculptures to Africa

Dozens of Benin bronze sculptures are going on display for one last time in Berlin's new Humboldt Museum before being repatriated to Nigeria. Taken during the colonial era from the African Kingdom of ...
Hyperallergic

Berlin's Humboldt Forum Is a Strange Marriage of Progressive Content and Conservative Form

The Humboldt Forum has been the subject of controversy since its plans were announced by the city of Berlin in 2002. Billed as the city’s new cultural focal point and proudly inhabiting the newly ...
CNN

Long-awaited $800M museum opens in Berlin’s former Royal Palace

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Art Newspaper, an editorial partner of CNN Style. The Humboldt Forum, a vast new museum complex in a partial reconstruction of the Prussian ...
Morgenpost

Berliner Museum enthüllt überraschende Büste aus DDR-Zeit – das steckt dahinter

Denn es handelt sich um eine Bronzebüste von Karl Marx, der Zitadellen-Leiterin Urte Evert und die Kustodin der Humboldt-Universität (HU) Christina Kuhli gemeinsam das Tuch runterzogen. Das Abbild des ...