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Are two museum directors better than one?

Following a move in 2019 where the German culture ministry decided that a consortium of Berlin’s major institutions, including the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie, would be broken up, the new structure of these institutions would see Hamburger Bahnhof gained not one new head, but two.






Following a move in 2019 where the German culture ministry decided that a consortium of Berlin’s major institutions, including the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie, would be broken up, the new structure of these institutions would see Hamburger Bahnhof gained not one new head, but two.

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath took up their new joint role at the start of 2022, making Hamburger Bahnhof the first major institution to fall under the management of two people.

“There’s a lot of structural change underway and nobody knows where this is going,” said Fellrath, speaking to Artnet News “I think there’s a strong desire from all the actors to rethink how these institutions should run.”

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Are two museum directors better than one?

Following a move in 2019 where the German culture ministry decided that a consortium of Berlin’s major institutions, including the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie, would be broken up, the new structure of these institutions would see Hamburger Bahnhof gained not one new head, but two.






Following a move in 2019 where the German culture ministry decided that a consortium of Berlin’s major institutions, including the Hamburger Bahnhof and the Neue Nationalgalerie, would be broken up, the new structure of these institutions would see Hamburger Bahnhof gained not one new head, but two.

Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath took up their new joint role at the start of 2022, making Hamburger Bahnhof the first major institution to fall under the management of two people.

“There’s a lot of structural change underway and nobody knows where this is going,” said Fellrath, speaking to Artnet News “I think there’s a strong desire from all the actors to rethink how these institutions should run.”

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