Is the Kulturforum really such a bad place? I've always liked the fact that it was sort of hidden, modest, from the outside and that it opens up the way it does on the inside. And I used to love to sit in Kunstbibliothek and watch the skater boys bite it on the plaza.
But Niklas Maak at the FAZ says it's ugly and doesn't do justice to the collections of the Gemäldegalerie and Kupferstichkabinett, and argues that it keeps that important art out of the "center" of Berlin's museum life. Which center is that? The Museumsinsel? Or the Egyptian Museum and Berggruen Collection? Or no, wait, somewhere in the vast hinterlands of the Hamburger Bahnhof...
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