MUSEUM ISLAND

INTRODUCTION

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The oldest museum on the island is the Altes Museum, or “old museum”, completed in 1830 by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel and located in the Lustgarten, a park beside the...

The Bode-Museum, located on the northern tip of Museumsinsel, appears to float on the Spree like a boat, with the main facade forming the round-shaped bow. Construction began in 1882, on a design by...

PERGAMONMUSEUM

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The Pergamonmuseum is undoubtedly the most famous of the museums on the island, and boasts the largest number of visitors of any museum in Germany, attracting over a million tourists a year. ...

PERGAMONMUSEUM - WORKS

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The most famous works on display in the Pergamonmuseum are the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate. You can see the Altar in the central part of the building. It’s an...

NEUES MUSEUM

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The Neues Museum is one of the most interesting museums in the city for its collections of ancient works. The building was designed in the mid-nineteenth century by the architect Friedrich August...

ALTE NATIONAL GALERIE

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The Alte Nationalgalerie is one of the most important collections of nineteenth-century German paintings and sculptures. Built in the style of a Greek temple, the Museum was designed by the German...

ALTES MUSEUM

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The Altes Museum, designed by the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is the oldest museum in the city, and the first to be built on the Museumsinsel, in 1830. The building is massive, and indeed the...

BERLIN CATHEDRAL

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The Berliner Dom, or Berlin Cathedral, is the largest Protestant church in the city, with a long and troubled history. As far back as the 15th century, there was already a small royal chapel here,...