Pergamon Museum - Berlin - details and images
One of the five that are still outstanding museums is the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island. It is the newest of these museums, and opened in 1930. The name given to the museum is the Pergamon Altar, a huge monument, which occupies an entire room into a museum.
Designed by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann later, the Pergamon Museum was built to complement the nearby museum, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (now the Bode Museum), which became too small to house the exhibits brought here after the German excavation works around world.
New museum idea appeared in 1907 and being taken this idea from start to finish took 20 years, from 1910 until 1930. It was opened in one of the most tumultuous periods in Germany and he was almost completely destroyed during the bombing during the Second World War.
Fortunately many of the exhibits have been stored elsewhere to be kept safe and exhibits higher could not be moved were built to protect. In 1945, part of the original collection was taken in Russia and there is still the Hermitage Museum or the Pushkin Museum. Some of the items were returned in 1950 but due to Russian law on refunds many still remained in the two museums.
Pergamon Museum in Berlin is divided into three different sections: Collection of Ancient and Islamic Art Museum Museum of the Middle East. Department of Greek and Roman antiquities is certainly the most praised and is one of the beautiful areas of the museum. Visitors can see some huge exhibits such as the Pergamon Altar (180-160 BC), it is so huge that it hosted an entire room. Built in Pergamon, Asia Minor, as an altar of Zeus, the structure of the giant museum piece de resistance. Everything here can be admired and beautiful Romanian who was entering the gate from Miletus in the market, all of Asia Minor, on the territory of Turkey today.
Museum of the Middle East is known as one of the most important collections of antiquities museums exhibit in Babylonia, Assyria and Persia. The ancient oriental treasures to be found here represent 6,000 years of history of the Middle East exhibited in 14 rooms with an area of 2000 square meters. Museum visitors should not miss the Ishtar Gate of Babylon and King Nebuchadnezzar throne room facade. There is also a model of the Tower of Babel in the Babylonian Hall.
Islamic Art Museum, focuses on the Middle East, including Egypt and Persia, has all sorts of art exhibits ninth century until the nineteenth century. Here are exposed jewelry, wood carvings, textiles, items of calligraphy, ceramics and more.
Address:
Bodestrasse 1-3, Museumsinsel, Mitte, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Transportation:
U-Bahn/S-Bahn: Friedrichstrasse
Tram: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 15, or 53
Schedule:
Inichis months
Tuesday-Wednesday, Friday-Sunday: 10:00 am - 18:00 pm
Thursday - 10:00 am - 22:00 pm
Rates:
€ 8 for adults
Children under 16 have free entry.
Admission is free the first Sunday of each month.
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