Looking for something to do? Do you like to save money? Well you are in luck because all this week we are sharing with you one place a day that you can go on little or no money. This way, you will have five destinations where you can go this weekend and still have money left over for two packs of gum and a roll of Life Savers. This week’s destination city is continuing with Berlin. There are so many free and low-cost things to do in Berlin that we simply could not limit it to five. So we have another full week of Berlin attractions and today’s destination is the Humboldt Box. The futuristic five-storey building in the center of Berlin, complete with terraces and a rooftop restaurant overlooking the Lustgarten, is 92 ft high and has an area of 32,000 sq ft. It opened on 29 June 2011 and welcomed its 100,000th visitor only 50 days later. After completion of the Humboldt Forum, which is planned for 2019, the structure is slated to be dismantled so it will likely be torn down before your next tour to Germany. The Humboldt Box features exhibits sponsored by the Friends of the Berlin City Palace and organizations projected to be housed in the future Humboldt Forum, including the Ethnological Museum of Berlin, the Museum of Asian Art, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, various departments of Humboldt University and the Central and Regional Library of Berlin. One floor of the building also serves as a venue for private events. The Humboldt Box was built as an information centre about the plans for a future palace, with a viewing platform for its construction site, and a temporary exhibition space for the future tenants. The idea came from a similar structure at Potsdamer Platz, the Visitor Box on Stilts, which stood at the site of a large construction project there from 1995 to 2001. Hoping to repeat the success of the bright red box on stilts, which served as an information centre and attracted some nine million visitors, the Friends of the Berlin City Palace and their supporters proposed the Humboldt Box to win the hearts of Berliners to the costly and ambitious plan to rebuild the Stadtschloss (Berlin City Palace). Used by Hohenzollern Prussian kings and German Emperors, the imperial palace suffered extensive damage in World War II and was razed in 1950 by the East German government. For more information, go to humboldt-box/en.html The Humbolt-Box Berlin is located at the Schlossplatz 5, 10178 Berlin. To get there via public transportation once in Berlin, take the S-Bahn to Hackescher Markt or the U-Bahn to Spandauer Strasse/Marienkirche.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:00:00 +0000
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