Claudia Roth (6th from left, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Minister of State for Culture and the Media, Klaus Biesenbach (7th from left), Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, Jacques Herzog (4th from left), architect, Kai Wegner (3rd from right, CDU), Governing Mayor of Berlin, and other project participants stand on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie.
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The Museum of the 20th Century in Berlin, now known as "berlin modern", is making progress: the foundation stone was laid on Friday.
By 2027, the seventh location of the National Gallery at the Kulturforum, not far from Potsdamer Platz in the heart of Berlin, will be completed at a cost of around half a billion euros.
The museum is being built directly between the Neue Nationalgalerie and Philharmonie buildings, which are celebrated as architectural icons.State Minister for Culture Claudia Roth (Green Party) wants to make it a "role model for sustainability". To this end, the plans for the museum, which has been under construction since 2019, have been revised. The design and revisions are by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, who also built the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, the Olympic Stadium in Beijing and the Allianz Arena in Munich.