Fire Breaks Out at Construction Site for Berlin’s Embattled Humboldt Forum Museum

A controversial museum in Germany has experienced yet another hitch. A fire broke out on Wednesday morning at the forthcoming Humboldt Forum, a soon-to-open museum in Berlin bringing together several ethnographic collections that has experienced fierce opposition from critics.
The fire broke out around 10 a.m. local time and appears to have been caused by an explosion of two tar cookers at the construction site, according to a report in the New York Times. The fire, which injured one worker, sen