Day 3 in Berlin
Dedicate an entire day to the Museum Island
The Museuminsel is a museum complex added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, so, there is a lot to see! In fact, it was designed to be “a sanctuary of art and science”. It hosts five museums located between the Kupfergraben and the Spree River.
Pergamonmuseum is our first destination on Museuminsel. The museum hosts original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings like the Pergamon Altar and the Market Gate of Miletus, all consisting of parts transported from Turkey. Also, you can explore here the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. Besides this, you can admire the antiquity collection, the Middle East museum, and the museum of Islamic art.
Bode Museum exhibits sculpture collections and late art works. The presentation of the collections is performed both geographically and chronologically, comprising works from Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque arts. As well, there is an imposing collection of coins and medals.
Alte Nationalgalerie, or Old National Gallery, is a gallery displaying a collection of Neoclassical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork. The one who founded the National Gallery was the banker Johann Heinrich Wagener, who donated 262 paintings by both German and foreign artists. Today, the collection contains works of Claude Monet, Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph von Menzel, and others.
Altes Museum (Old Museum) hosts nowadays the antiquities collection of the Berlin State Museum, while the Neues Museum (New Museum) exhibits the Egyptian and Prehistory and Early History collections. Here, the iconic bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, as well as other works of art from the time of the king Akhenaten can be observed.
