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Pergamon Altar
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  • budapest8
  • By budapest8 on November 17, 2005
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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.

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  • Directions: U-Bahn: Friedrichstraße U6 OR S-Bahn S1, S2, S5, S7, S75, S9 TRAM 12 BUS 147 Museumsinsel
  • Website: www.smb.spk-berlin.de
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  • coceng
  • Updated By coceng on September 29, 2003
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  • One example of artifact in Pergamon Museum... - Berlin
    One example of artifact in
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    by coceng
    If you have a time for ONLY one museum in Berlin, make it to Pergamon Museum.
    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...

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  • Directions: Museumsinsel in Berlin.
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  • Updated By coceng on September 29, 2003
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  • Pergamon Altar in Berlin - Berlin
    Pergamon Altar in Berlin
    by coceng
    Pergamon Museum is under the roof of an edifice that took 20 years to built, completed in 1930.
    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

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  • Directions: Inside Pergamon Museum.
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  • Updated By coceng on September 29, 2003
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  • Babylon Wall in Berlin - Berlin
    Babylon Wall in Berlin
    by coceng
    The photo shows one of the most commanding sights in Pergamon Museum, taken by me.
    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.

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  • Directions: In the Musemsinsel.
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    Museumsinsel (Museum Island): 5 World Class Museums...
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  • Updated By coceng on September 29, 2003
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  • Museumsinsel in Berlin - Berlin
    Museumsinsel in Berlin
    by coceng
    These 5 World Class Museums situated in Colln, on the little Spree Island. Its northern tip is known as 'Museumsinsel' or Museum Island for this cluster of World Class Museums located here.
    The 5 Museums you can see on the map, on the left.
    Pergamon Museum is the best among them.

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  • Directions: On the Spree Island called Colln, at the northern tip.
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  • Happening in Altes Museum in Berlin - Berlin
    Happening in Altes Museum in
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    This photo was taken by me inside the Altes Museum.

    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 !

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  • Directions: U-Bahn: Friedrichstrasse; on Museumsinsel.
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    Museumsinsel (Museum Island): Alte Nationalgalerie
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  • By richiecdisc on March 25, 2003
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  • the Altes Nationalgalerie - Berlin
    the Altes Nationalgalerie
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    Also, recently reconstructed, the National Gallery houses art from the 18th and 19th centuries. Along with better known artists like Monet, the Berlin rooms feature Max Liebermann's dark works.

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  • Directions: Just behind the Altes Museum on Bodestrasse.
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  • Updated By Igraine on June 4, 2005
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    Boy taking a thorn from his
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    by Igraine
    On the Museuminsel you will find several different types of museums. E.g National history museum and Pergamom Museum with the Pergamon altar.

    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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    Museumsinsel (Museum Island): Pergamon Museum
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  • Updated By keeweechic on August 9, 2006
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  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island) - Berlin
    by keeweechic
    The Pergamon Museum is definitely worth a visit. It is named after the Berlin’s most important artistic treasure, the Altar of Zeus and Athene (built 180-160 B.C.) from Pergamon in West Turkey.

    Truly impressive - well worth seeing. I liked the Islamic section also.

    Open : Tues-Sun 1000-1800 (Thurs until 2200).

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  • 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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    Museumsinsel (Museum Island): The Altar of Pergamon
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  • By keeweechic on September 1, 2003
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  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island) - Berlin
    by keeweechic
    The main attraction of the Museum is the Pergamon Altar (2nd century BC). This great marble altar is 40 feet high. It was unearthed in what is now Turkey and moved to Berlin.

    The frieze depicts the battle between the Gods and Gaints and is regarded as a masterpiece of Hellenistic art.

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