Reorganisation of the Kassel's museum landscapeKassel (D)

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Between 2004 and 2006, bogner.cc developed a master plan for the reorganisation of Kassel's museum landscape together with architecture and urban planners AS&P–Albert Speer & Partner in Frankfurt (project architect: Jens Jakob Happ). This project, which was given a timespan of ten years and a budget of 300 million Euros, focussed on the Staatliche Museen Kassel and the several hundred hectares of landscape gardens with their many attractions, maintained by the Staatliche Schloesser und Gaerten administration. The concept includes the Hercules on the rigde of the Habichtswald, the Bergpark with its water displays and the romantic Loewenburg castle, the painting gallery and antiques collection in Schloss Wilhelmshoehe, the treasures, ethnology, prehistory and protohistory at the Landesmuseum as well as the Astronomisch-physikalisches Kabinett in the orangery, Schloss Wilhelmsthal in Calden, as well as the documenta complex at and around the Fridericianum and the Neue Galerie at Schoene Aussicht. The complexity of the task required a holistic approach to the diversity of state, municipal and private cultural facilities and their different problems as well as consideration of the complex connections between social, economic, legal, organisational and technical aspects.

The Neue Galerie was opened to visitors in November 2011 after undergoing comprehensive renovation and redesign by Staab Architekten Berlin, as was the new Hercules visitor centre designed by the same team. And on November 26^th 2016, the Hessian State Museum in Kassel was reopened after a period of redesign and modernisation starting in 2008.

Photos 1 & 2: map of "communicating" areas