For a year Marion Ackermann (61) has led the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), the umbrella for Berlin’s world-famous Museum Island. This is a conversation about the reopening of the Pergamon Museum, the AfD’s assault on the Bauhaus—and the latest news from the United States. Next summer, the first sections of the Pergamon Museum are due to reopen. For the Pergamon Museum, I have learned that a lot also has to do with the fact that everything is literally built on sand. Will daily tickets for Museum Island become more expensive when the Pergamon Museum reopens?