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In 1989 work was started on a substitute foundation rather than the old pile foundation. The ruins were rescued from caving in. The international competition of 1993 for reconstruction of the Neues Museum did not yield any satisfactory results.
In a second competitive phase, David Chipperfield (London) was commissioned with planning in 1997. The outline planning was completed in the year 2000. Its guiding theme of "gentle reconstruction" refrained both from 1:1 reconstruction of the historic building as well as from intervention of modernity in the substance of the monument. The given structure and cubature of the Stüler building was transformed into the clear form language of David Chipperfield, and developed for contemporary, future oriented museum usage by the Egyptian Museum and the Museum for Pre- and Early History.
The foundation plate was sunk so that it was possible to gain an urgently needed additional level for exhibition space at the base. There, the Archaeological Promenade will establish, along the building’s longitudinal axis, the thematic and architectural connections to the neighbouring buildings.
The Neues Museum has been open to the public again since October 2009.
