Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie is being refurbished
The restoration of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin will cost an estimated €101m, Hermann Parzinger, the director of the Prussian Cultrural Heritage Foundation, announced yesterday, 21 January. This masterpiece by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which opened in 1968, was closed in early January. Access to displays in the basement of the temple-like structure has already been closed since 31 December. Construction of the exterior will not be visible initially, as the five-year makeover will start inside the building.
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