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How World War II Stole the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’ From Humanity The room was part of the Catherine Palace near St, Petersburg and it was last seen in the Baltic port city of Königsberg in East Prussia. Here s What You Need to Remember: A full reconstruction of the Amber Room was created at Tsarskyoye Selo based on eight-six black and white photographs taken of various fragments of the room. The construction process, which began in 1979, was finally completed in 2003 at a cost of $11 million. It was dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” a golden-hued, jewel-encrusted chamber that was made of several tons of gemstones, gold and amber. The opulent “Amber Room” disappeared during the Second World War and was considered a casualty of the conflict, but now divers off the coast of Poland believe they may have found the lost Tsarist-era treasure. ....
Humboldt Forum opens doors amid ongoing pandemic confusion Walking around the building is a remarkable experience, it’s hard to know where to begin Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 05:01 Listen now 9:28 The Humboldt Forum, a reconstruction of the old Berlin Schloss in Berlin. It will eventually showcase thousands of ethnological artifacts, many of which were acquired during the colonial era. Photograph: The New York Times Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.
On a chilly August day in 2014, I accompanied a tall 38-year-old around Berlin’s biggest building site. Perched on an open concrete platform on the second floor, wearing a hard hat and high-vis vest, a smile rose on the face of Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, the head of the Hohenzollern family and man who would be kaiser. ....
Italian architect Franco Stella has completed his reconstruction of the baroque Berlin Palace, which was formerly home to Prussian kings and German emperors and will now house the Humboldt Forum museum. Described as the largest cultural development in Europe , the 40,000-square-metre museum stands on the site of the demolished East German parliament building alongside Berlin Cathedral on Museum Island. Berlin Palace has been reconstructed as Humboldt Forum Humboldt Forum occupies a reconstruction of Berlin Palace, a largely 18th-century palace designed by Andreas Schlüter that was the main residence of the Prussian and later the German monarchs. Damaged during world war two, the palace was demolished and replaced by the Palace of the Republic, which housed the parliament of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), also known as East Germany. Following unification in 1990, the parliament building was closed and then demolished to make way for the museum. ....