Exhibition and Documentation of Major Architectural Competition for the Museum Island, 1883-84 / Opening on September 16 / Press Tour 10 a.m.
In 1883 the Prussian Ministry of Culture advertised an architectural competition to design the Museum Island in Berlin. Now for the first time all the submitted blueprints are being documented in an exhibition and a book. The works by German and Austrian architects belong to a cultural and art historical period during the time when the German Empire was rising to become a Great Power. The exhibition will include digitized original blueprints, historical light prints, sketches, journals, photographs, and paintings. ...
