Open this photo in gallery: New Museum on famous Museum Island, Berlin.iStockPhoto / Getty Images In Berlin, history is always with you. Walking the streets of the Mitte district, it’s easy to settle into the city’s modern bustle: coffee and cocktails, indie bookstores uneasily sharing space with online-first fashion labels. Then you notice the shrapnel damage that pockmarks the stone walls. Every city contains layers of the past, but none more dramatically so than the German capital. And the city’s Museum Island provides an ideal point to reflect on this theme, following a new set of buildings that rethink and...