Reopening Berlin’s Neues Museum

British architect David Chipperfield’s nimble rebuilding of the Neues Museum was such a feat of renovation and reconstruction that the city admitted the public to the empty building for several days last March to show off the achievement. After 12 years of painstaking work, the Neoclassical structure reopens this month with one of the world’s top collections of Egyptian art and a singular beauty, the bust of Nefertiti.