2023-11-15 00:01:11
Berlin-The Museum of Things is worried about its future. In the current budget negotiations, which are now a matter for the Berlin House of Representatives, the funds for two new pavilion buildings for the museum have been canceled. The museum’s sponsoring association, the Werkbundarchiv, announced this on Monday. “Canceling the funds for its own building would deprive the museum of the prospect of a secure future.” The state parliament is discussing the double budget for 2024/2025, which is to be decided by the end of the year.
The museum is currently in the process of moving anyway: at the beginning of November it was announced that the exhibition space of the Werkbundarchiv in Kreuzberg’s Oranienstrasse would have to be cleared. After the move, which was funded with around 680,000 euros, the around 20,000 visitors annually can visit the museum and archive in the rooms of a smaller interim solution on Leipziger Straße from May onwards.
The sponsoring association and the museum team are now “very concerned that the move to Leipziger Straße threatens to perpetuate a temporary structure and that the house will not be able to fully develop its potential as planned,” the Werkbund Archive continued.
In a statement from the Council for the Arts on Saturday it was said that the funds had been canceled following a request from the CDU and SPD government factions. “We, the Council for the Arts, are therefore calling on the MPs to retain the funds for the construction of the pavilion buildings in Karl-Marx-Allee as a sign of future provision for culture in Berlin.”
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When asked on Monday, a spokesman for the Senate Administration said: “The importance and necessity that we attach to the two pavilions is reflected in the fact that the funds were provided for in our department’s draft budget.”
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