Partially destroyed by Allied bombing, converted by the Communist regime into a hideous Parliament and leisure center, the former palace of the Prussian kings and home of the Hohenzollern family is reborn today in a hybrid form, officially inaugurated on Wednesday, on the sly.
The object as big as two football fields, located in the heart of the capital, opposite the Protestant cathedral of the Berliner Dom, was initially supposed to give luster to a Prussian dynasty with a tarnished image.
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Against a backdrop of epidemic and controversy over Germany's colonialist past, only a Federal Minister of Culture, as well as the mayor of Berlin, made an appearance at the virtual inauguration.
The public will have to wait until next summer to start visiting the museum incorporated into the palace.
This one is supposed to bring together, in the only perimeter of the famous "museum island", African, Asian or Oceanian collections today gathered in other ethnological museums.
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