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The Luf Boat is a large outrigger boat and exhibit of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. The boat was acquired in 1903 by the managing director of the German trading company Hernsheim & Co. in the South Seas, Max Thiel, on the island of Luf, which belonged to the then colony of German New Guinea. In 1904 it came to Berlin.
The Humboldt Forum is a universal museum on the Spree Island in Berlin's Historische Mitte, Mitte district, under the sponsorship of the Humboldt Forum Foundation in the Berlin Palace. The building was constructed from 2012 to 2020 on the site of the historic Berlin Palace and features its reconstructed facades on three of its outer sides and in its courtyards. With collections from the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin City Museum and the Humboldt University in Berlin, it expands the Museum Island's offerings. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was initially opened digitally only on 16 December 2020. With the opening on 20 July 2021, which was attended by Berlin's governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD), visitor operations began.
14.09.2021, ©Julia Steinigeweg / Focus Agency