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I enjoyed just walking around these museums and soaking up the culture, early morning before the hoards of tourists arrive or even dusk is better as I think much nicer to see a place in it`s element without swarms of people buzzing around with cameras.
The consort of museums found on the Museum Island is a unique cultural inheritance which unites five important museum buildings into a heterogeneous but harmonic ensemble on the River Spree.
The south of the island, near the Schlossbrücke bridge and the »Berlin Cathedral, is the location for the FIRST BUILDING, The Alte Museum (Old Museum), with the greenery of the Lustgarten stretching out in front of it. To the north, there is the Neue Museum (New Museum) and the Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery). On the Kupfergraben side stands the Pergamonmuseum, with the Bode Museum completing the ensemble. The oldest museum complex in Berlin suffered more than 70 % destruction in the Second World War, and the painstaking work of restoration is a long way from being completed.
The Five Museums
The Alte Museum was built in 1830 to plans by Schinkel; its interior, particularly the domed rotunda, creates a wonderful atmosphere for the sculpture exhibited and the collection of ancient artworks. Leave a Comment Directions: U-Bahn: Friedrichstraße U6 OR S-Bahn S1, S2, S5, S7, S75, S9 TRAM 12 BUS 147 MuseumsinselWebsite: www.smb.spk-berlin.de
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Pergamon Museum... by coceng
In here, you can find a feast of Classical Greek, Babylonian, Roman, Islamic & Middle Eastern Art & Architectures.
This is one of the best museums that I have been to !
Every room has photocopied articles of what you could see...in English, French & German.
Visitors would normally snap the English texts once they see them.
Each sheet is to pay for actually but by the so-called 'honour system'. Understand ? Place the money in the box as you exit. Err, I didn't...
Leave a Comment Directions: Museumsinsel in Berlin.
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 Pergamon Altar in Berlin by coceng
Audioguides with 4 hours of tape commentary are available for hire at 10 Euros.
The first major exhibit that you'll see as you enter is one of the most spectacular, also what gives the museum its name :
Pergamon Altar Leave a Comment Directions: Inside Pergamon Museum.
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 Babylon Wall in Berlin by coceng
It is part of the walls from The Kingdom of Babylon !
We can take photos in the Pergamon Museum but no flash. I took as many as I could because everything that I saw around me are traces of the world history from the medieval to the present day.
Amazing place that you MUST SEE in Berlin. Leave a Comment Directions: In the Musemsinsel.
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 Museumsinsel in Berlin by coceng
The 5 Museums you can see on the map, on the left.
Pergamon Museum is the best among them. Leave a Comment Directions: On the Spree Island called Colln, at the northern tip.
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 Happening in Altes Museum in
Berlin by coceng
You can see the paintings adorning the wall, some old ladies pondering at the wall (paintings, of course), an old lady deep in her listening to the audioguide (I don't think she's deaf)...& two people kissing, passionately !
What a sight !
Of course you don't always manage to capture such scenes but everywhere you go, do make a habit of snapping photos without the people noticing you doing that ! Leave a Comment Directions: U-Bahn: Friedrichstrasse; on Museumsinsel.
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 the Altes Nationalgalerie by richiecdiscLeave a Comment Directions: Just behind the Altes Museum on Bodestrasse.
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 Boy taking a thorn from his
feet by Igraine
Also in the Pergamon museum, Greek and Roman sculpture like this one. The way the museum is set up you can see the sculpture progressing through time and then finally go down again. Directions: Close to the Humboldt and Unter den Linden, take bus 100
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 by keeweechic
Truly impressive - well worth seeing. I liked the Islamic section also.
Open : Tues-Sun 1000-1800 (Thurs until 2200). Leave a Comment Directions: Museum Island with the Pergamon Museum (Local train from Bahnhof Zoo or Tiergarten to Friedrichstrasse approx. 15 min, then walk east along the river Spree for about 5 min.
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 by keeweechic
The frieze depicts the battle between the Gods and Gaints and is regarded as a masterpiece of Hellenistic art. Leave a Comment
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