The 10 Best Museums in Museum Island, Germany

August 9, 2021 Florencio Paulino

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1. Museum Island

Breite Street, 13089 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/museumsinsel-berlin/home.html
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Museum Island

Home to three famous museums - the Pergamon, the Altes and the Bode.

2. Alte Nationalgalerie

Bodestr. 1 - 3 Museumsinsel, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 [email protected] http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/alte-nationalgalerie/home.html
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Alte Nationalgalerie

We are more than happy that starting from 12th of May 2020 we can reopen several of the museums belonging to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – among them the Alte Nationalgalerie! Please note that during your visit you have to follow some special hygiene and safety measures. All important information about visiting the museum can be found on our website. // The collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie is one of the largest collection of art between the French Revolution and the First World War, between Classicism and secession. Unique is the harmony between the collection and the style of the building.

Reviewed By coke_somchai - Bangkok, Thailand

Alte nationalgalerie is part of many museums in Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. There are a lot of 19th century paintings and sculptures collections here. I love this museum!

3. Pergamonmuseum

Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 [email protected] http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/pergamonmuseum/home.html
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Pergamonmuseum

The Pergamonmuseum is a three-wing complex. The museum houses three of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s collections: the Antikensammlung, Vorderasiatisches Museum, and the Museum für Islamische Kunst. The impressive reconstructions of massive archaeological structures – the Pergamon Altar, Market Gate of Miletus, the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way from Babylon, and the Mshatta Facade – have made the Pergamonmuseum famous throughout the world, with the result that it is the most visited museum at the Staatliche Museen and in Germany as a whole.

Reviewed By bsandrs - Portsmouth, United Kingdom

The Jewels of Museum Island in the centre of the City are the Pergamon and the Neue buildings and we enjoyed an excellent three hour guided tour from an expert on the collections, who whilst now living in Berlin, originated from the Isle of Wight, just off Portsmouth which was a strange coincidence. The contents of the Pergamon are mind blowing and you can only scratch the surface on a day visit. With the Pergamon Altar itself closed for the next few years, the undoubted highlights are the Ishtar Gate and Lion Approach from Babylon, together with the Miletus Roman Facade and we rightly spent most of our available time studying those. However, the whole Museum is packed with great artefacts and we simply must return.

4. Neues Museum

Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 [email protected] http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/neues-museum/home.html
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Neues Museum

The opening of the Neues Museum marked a key chapter in the history of 19th-century art, museum design, and technology. Designed by Friedrich August Stüler and built from 1843 to 1855, the building suffered severe damage during World War II, after which it was left as an abandoned bombsite. Emergency measures to secure the structure were only taken in the 1980s. Painstaking restoration work got under way in 2003 and was undertaken by the offices of the British architect David Chipperfield.The museum reopened its doors to the public in 2009 and combines geographically and thematically related exhibits pooled together from three separate collections at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: the collection of Egyptian art from the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, of prehistoric objects from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, and of classical antiquities from the Antikensammlung.

Reviewed By 924vincep - Woodland Park, United States

This totally fascinating museum reopened its doors in 2009 and is well worth an extended visit. Its four floors contain a vast array of artifacts from the each of the prehistory eras (stone, bronze, iron), as well as other antiquity times (Greek, Roman, Nubian, and most notably, ancient Egypt). Exhibits include a Neanderthal skull, the world-famous bust, beautifully preserved, of Nefertiti, and the tall, gold-leafed golden hat. Be certain to take a few moments to sit and watch a fascinating, animated time machine projection of prehistorical life on the second floor near the golden hat exhibit.

5. Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Antikensammlung)

Bodestr. 1-3 In Altes Museum, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/antikensammlung/home.html
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Museum of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Antikensammlung)

This museum features a large collection of various classical antiques.

6. James Simon Galerie

Bodestrasse Eiserne Bruecke, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 http://www.smb.museum/museen-und-einrichtungen/james-simon-galerie/home.html
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James Simon Galerie

7. Humboldt Box

Schlossplatz 5 Unter den Linden, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 [email protected] http://www.humboldt-box.com/
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8. Altes Museum

Am Lustgarten, 10178 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 http://www.smb.museum/am
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Altes Museum

We are more than happy that starting from 12th of May 2020 we can reopen several of the museums belonging to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – among them the Altes Museum! Please note that during your visit you have to follow some special hygiene and safety measures. All important information about visiting the museum can be found on our website. // Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Altes Museum, is one of the most important buildings of the Neoclassical era. The monumental arrangement of eighteen Ionic fluted columns, the expansive atrium and sweeping staircase that invites visitors to ascend to the top, the rotunda adorned with Antique sculptures on all sides as a place to collect one’s thoughts and an explicit reference to Rome’s Pantheon. Today the museum houses the Antikensammlung, showcasing its permanent exhibition on the art and culture of the Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans. The Munzkabinett complements this sweeping overview of classical antiquity.

Reviewed By Hentonn - Warsaw, Poland

Altes Museum is situated in my favourite building in Berlin. I always visit it when I am in Berlin. New exibition has been there since 2011. Collections of ancient Greek, Etruscan and Roman art. Beautiful colourful 'Berlin Goddess'. Caesar and Cleopatra and many others beautifull things. Temporary exhibition 'Tough Types. Portraits of Ancient Greeks'. Fascinating journey through the art of the ancient world.

9. Bode Museum

Am Kupfergraben Entrance over the Monbijou bridge, 10117 Berlin Germany +49 30 266424242 [email protected] https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/bode-museum/about-us/profile.html
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Bode Museum

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin closed from Saturday onwards From Saturday, 14.03.2020, onwards all buildings of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be closed until further notice. This measure is intended to minimise the spread of the coronavirus. We ask our visitors for their understanding. The concept of the museum, which was originally called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, can be traced back to Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia, who published her ideas in a memorandum in 1883. It was Wilhelm von Bode who finally put these ground-breaking ideas into practice. In 1897, construction work began at the northern tip of the Museum Island on a museum that was to be devoted to the Renaissance, designed by Eberhard von Ihne. The building was badly damaged in the Second World War. In 1956 it was renamed the Bode-Museum after its first director and spiritual founder. After extensive renovation work, the museum building reopened to the public in autumn 2006.

Reviewed By blairkk25 - New Jersey, United States

I visited the Bode Museum in December 2019. During my August 2018 visit to Berlin I had visited most of the museums of Museum Island except the Bode Museum. The front of the building is beautiful and a nice photo op. It is the front of Museum Island. The entrance fee is 10 euros. The main hall has many sculptures of Jesus and the Crucifixion and Mary with the baby Jesus. Other parts of the museum have German, French and Italian gothic and renaissance sculptures, icons, paintings and other art. I did not go up to the second floor as I was pressed for time but hopefully I will go to Berlin again and have the opportunity.

10. Historischer Hafen Berlin

Fischerinsel 3, 10179 Berlin Germany http://www.historischer-hafen-berlin.de/
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Historischer Hafen Berlin

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