“Like an imposing Disneyland castle minus the fun,” the Humboldt Forum is “an institution manufactured to fill a building, rather than the other way around . . . But the symbolism of rebuilding an imperial palace, crowned with a golden crucifix, as a showcase for colonial booty now seems almost comically misjudged.” (National Geographic, 12/16/20; The New York Times, 7/22/21; The Guardian, 9/9/21; Hyperallergic, 12/15/21)
Like an imposing Disneyland castle minus the fun
