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Fri 10 Oct 2009New and ancient worlds united in daring facelift for museum

BERLIN DIARY: Visiting the rebuilt Neues Museum in Berlin is a dizzying historical experience

BARE BRICK has never been so exciting. Exactly 70 years after it closed, and after decades as a rain-soaked wartime ruin, Berlin’s “Neues Museum” reopens today after a daring €212 million facelift.