A unique ensemble of buildings in the heart of Berlin, Museum Island is one of the most outstanding museum complexes in Europe. Six thousand years of culture and history are illustrated on Museum Island, a panorama stretching from the Ancient Egyptians and the civilizations of the ancient Near East to Greek and Roman Antiquity and the Christian and Islamic art of the Middle Ages to European art of the 19th Century. Awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 1999, millions of visitors come to see the five museums every year. Not only the collections themselves are worth seeing, the ensemble of historic buildings on Museum Island is among the most beautiful architecture that Berlin has to offer.
The Altes Museum, or Old Museum, offers an insight into the worlds of Etruscan, Greek and Roman art. Built during the empire period, the Bode Museum with its striking cupola houses the Sculpture Collection including works from all over Europe dating from the early Middle Ages to Classicism. Byzantine art of the 3rd to 19th Centuries is also featured, in addition to a selection of some of the most valuable coins and medals from Antiquity to the 20th-Century in the collection displayed in the Münzkabinett. The Old National Gallery, rising above the island like an ancient Greek temple, was opened in 1876 to house the contemporary art of the time and today still has painting and sculpture from the 19th Century, with highlights being rooms with the Impressionists and Caspar David Friedrich.
In 1997, David Chipperfield won the international competition for the rebuilding of the Neues Museum, which houses the Egyptian museum and papyrus collection with its famous bust of Queen Nefertiti and other works of art from the time of the king Akhenaten
Family group of Ptah-mai, chief of the Web-priests of Ptah,
from the Ramses II dynasty c 1279 BC
Seated statue of Mentuemhat, governor of Thebes c.610 BC
The world famous Bust of Nefertiti is a 3,300-year-old limestone and plaster sculpture of the
ancient Egyptian queen, was discovered in 1912
Nefertiti is the most popular item in the museum, but can only be photographed
from outside the atrium where she's featured
Papyrus of King Khufu c.1640 BC
View through the sumptuous galleries of the Neues Museum
Long view towards Nefertiti Atrium as seen through room featuring Roman busts
Bronze of 'Xanten Youth' c.1st century BC was discovered in 1858 by fishermen not far from Xanten
Intricate floor tile in the museum changes in each room
Greek marriage contract on papyrus c. 310 BC
Time for a cappuccino in the Allegretto Cafè of the Neues Museum
The Neues Museum interior courtyard
Bust of Roman Lady of the Julian-Claudian era from the Heinrich Schliemanns Collection of Trojan antiquities, who was among the great
archaelogists of the 19th-century
Boat-shaped Saucier from 27 BC, looks rather modern
Head of statue of King Amenhotep III c. 1360 BC
Head of statuette of Queen Tiy with double feather crown c. 1355 BC
Portrait heads of the royal couple Nefertiti and Ashenaten c. 1350 BC
Figure of a girl holding a small cat c. 1380 BC
Head of statue of King Amasis c. 550 BC
Painting from a tomb of the representation of the deified Pharaoh Amenhotep I c. 1186 BC
Praying statue of King Amenemhet III c. 1840 BC from Memphis
The massive, multi-phase overhaul of the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island,
due to open in 2027, featured the Pergamon Altar with the Giant Frieze, the Market Gate from late Roman Miletus and the Processional Way and Ishtar Gate of Babylon
The Bode Museum on Museum Island
Baroque Equestrian Statue of Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg
sits in the atrium of the Bode
The Barberini Faun by Vincenzo Pacetti c.1813, is a famous Hellenistic marble statue of a sleeping, drunken satyr
San Jeronimo by Diego de Siloé 1490 AD
The spectacular late Baroque and early Rococo Mirror Cabinet from Merseburg Castle, from 1712-1715
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