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Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum will be of interest to those who are familiar with history. It is worth a visit to see with your own eyes one of the wonders of the world - the Pergamon Altar! The museum issues an audio guide in their native language. Tickets are best bought online.

Pergamon Museum (Pergamonmuseum), photo by Deve

For any tourist visiting Berlin, art experts recommend visiting the Pergamonmuseum. This is one of the popular museums in the German capital. About a million guests visit it during the year. The building is located on Museum Island near the Spree River.

History of the museum

The first museum building was built in the years 1878-1886, and primarily for the storage of the Pergamon Altar. The museum opened its doors to visitors in 1901. The exhibition featured architectural artifacts from Pergamum, Magnesia on Meander and Priene. However, already in 1908 the museum building was demolished due to a defect in the foundation, the exhibits were transferred to the New Museum.

In 1907, the architect Alfred Messel began to develop a project for the new museum building, and Ludwig Hoffman continued his work.

The construction of the monumental building in the neoclassical style began in 1910, but the war and economic difficulties kept the work going on and on. As a result, the museum was opened only by 1930.

The building was damaged by bombing during the Second World War. Then the number of exhibits decreased, many were exported to the Soviet Union. Part of the museum funds in 1958 returned to the GDR. A significant part of the Pergamon Museum's collection is still kept in the vaults of the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.

Exposition

Pergamon Altar, photo by Gryffindor

The exposition of the Pergamon Museum includes:
  • Antique collection
  • Central Asian Museum
  • Museum of Islamic Art.

These collections cover the period from the VI century. BC e. until the 19th century and give an idea of ​​how fine art developed from antiquity to the present day.

The most famous exhibits of the museum:

Gate of the Miletus Market, photo by Chris Whitworth

Ishtar Gate, photo by HEN-Magonza

Mshatta Frieze, photo by Willem van Bergen

  • Pergamon Altar (II century BC), which impresses with its scale, good preservation and the highest quality of execution;
  • Gates of the Miletus Market - a vivid example of Roman architecture of the II century.,
  • Ishtar Gate - the 8th gate of the inner city of Babylon and the Procession Road (VI century BC),
  • stone frieze (VIII century), which adorned the palace of Mshatta in the desert of Jordan.

Opening hours

Mon-Wed and Fri-Sun 10:00 - 18:00,
Thu 10:00 - 20:00.

Ticket price

Full ticket - € 12,
preferential - € 6.

On the Museumsinsel map (Pergamon, Bode Museum, Old Gallery, New and Old Museums):
full - € 18,
preferential - € 9.

How to get there

Take the U6 or S1, S2, S25 underground to the Friedrichstraße station;
S5, S7, S75 to Hackescher Markt;
TXL bus to Staatsoper, No. 147 to Friedrichstraße, No. 100, 200 to Lustgarten;
Tram M4, M5, M6 to Hackescher Markt; M1, 12 to Am Kupfergraben.

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Watch the video: BERLIN, EXPLORING the fascinating historical exhibits of the PERGAMON MUSEUM (November 2024).

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