James-Simon-Galerie
In James-Simon-Galerie once stood an art gallery designed by architect David Chipperfield and opened to the public on 13 July 2019. It was the sixth building on Museum Island, set between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree, and it occupies the site of the former Packhof, a building designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel that was demolished in 1938. The gallery’s name honoured the art patron Henri James Simon (1851–1932), whose major donations helped bring worldwide fame to the Berlin State Museums—and whose Jewish identity was later erased from German museums under the Third Reich. Chipperfield’s first proposals triggered protests, and the project’s budget rose from $94 million to $157 million, partly because foundation work—carried out by divers in the canal—required two years of reconstruction. …
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