museums with each other. field also works on buildings near the island such as the gallery house on the book for now i'm to museum island forum on the opposite bank of the river. the british architect has certainly left his mark on the lens historical city center. so these are monumental sites on museum island which project was the most challenging both were challenging obviously and one was working. with a run the other was the challenge of building a new building on my. own not you know in a place where the. to bring modern architecture is very difficult i suppose noise museum was was was more challenging was more complex and i and i think it was much more in the public view in the public consciousness and it was part of a very strong debate and i think it was also more connected with history now this this public debate surrounding the noise museum did it check your car confidence at all or change your plans. no i don't think so i think architects have to. explain themselves and i think it's incumbent on us i mean i think that sometimes the profession has a sort of sense of entitlement. i think because i've always worked in

one in the end is to create a forum for world cultures housing berlin's extensive non european collections in tandem with the european art on the neighboring museum island. the humboldt forum is named after the famous researcher and universal scholar at xander fun humbugged . construction began in june two thousand and twelve the government is providing five hundred ninety million euros funding an extra one hundred million euros have been collected in donations to reconstruct. the baroque facade. aside from the building itself the current focus is on the objects displayed inside restitution of colonial era artifacts is a matter of heated debate and one the new make him you see i'm contacting a little. a gruesome murder carved in stone and discovered by chance in guatemala in the nineteenth century. incredible boat from oceania fit for the high seas but without a single nail. and a cave from china where buddhist monks prayed over one hundred thousand years ago. treasures from berlin's enormous collections. prussian rulers started these collections over two hundred years ago today they belong to the prussian cultural heritage foundation the key player in