Berlin Modern Museum Delayed Again as Moisture Damage Pushes Opening to 2030
Berlin’s long-planned Berlin Modern museum has been delayed again, with moisture damage in the building shell and microbial contamination pushing the opening to 2030, according to ARTnews. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation announced the setback after Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation reported the issues, adding roughly eight months to the construction timeline for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed project. The museum, originally slated to open this year as the Museum of the 20th Century, has seen its completion date shift from 2026 to 2028, then to 2029, and now to 2030 since groundbreaking in December 2019. Costs have risen from an initial €200 million estimate to €507 million, and the building is intended as an extension of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie to house 20th-century European art including works by Gerhard Richter, Joseph Beuys, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.
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