Exhibition design contract awarded for the Humboldt Forum
Press release from 04/13/2012
The future Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace continues to take shape. Today, the Ralph Appelbaum / malsyteufel consortium was awarded the contract for the scenographic design of the exhibition areas in the Humboldt Forum: This means that work can begin on the presentation of the important collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
The American-German team prevailed in a negotiated procedure with the four winners of the 2010 competition for the exhibition design. In its conceptual approach, it takes up the high demands for a future-orientated approach to the historical collections, which are currently still housed in Berlin-Dahlem. The working group is also convincing in its ability to respond to the collaboration with the museums with its own signature style and yet in an open manner.
Ralph Appelbaum Associates, with offices in New York, London and Beijing, was founded in 1978. As one of the world's largest exhibition agencies, Appelbaum has designed major museums and exhibitions in many countries, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the American Museum of Natural History in New York and currently the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
malsyteufel (Willich near Düsseldorf) can also look back on over twenty years of successful work as exhibition designers. Founded by Prof. Victor Malsy and Prof. Philipp Teufel, the firm has designed the Deutsche Bundesbank's Money Museum and numerous exhibitions, for example at the German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main and currently the Haus des Waldes in Stuttgart, among others.
27 April 2012, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berlin Palace - Humboldt Forum Foundation will explain the decision and introduce the designers Ralph Appelbaum and Philipp Teufel. Separate invitations will be sent out for this discussion.
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