History Museum Island

museum island pergamon , bode museum, 1951

museum island further comprises lustgarten park , berlin cathedral. between bode , pergamon museums crossed stadtbahn railway viaduct. adjacent territory south site of former stadtschloss , palace of republic.

the prussian collections became separated during cold war during division of city, reunited after german reunification, except art , artefacts removed after world war ii allied troops. these include priam s treasure, called gold of troy, excavated heinrich schliemann in 1873, smuggled out of turkey berlin , today kept @ pushkin museum in moscow.

as city s major museums, took of 1990s consensus emerge museum island s buildings should restored , modernized, general director wolf-dieter dube s cautious plan use approved in january 1999. then, 6 months later, peter-klaus schuster took on , set in motion far more ambitious program intended turn museum island louvre on spree. federal government pledged $20 million year through 2010 projects enhance berlin s prestige , unesco declaring island world heritage site.

the contents of museums decided on follows: pergamon, greek altar gives name, retained of collection , defined museum of ancient architecture. neues museum presented archaeological objects egyptian , etruscan sculptures, including renowned bust of queen nefertiti. altes museum, oldest on island, displayed greek , roman art objects on first floor , hold exhibitions on second floor. bode museum s paintings went late byzantine 1800. and, now, alte nationalgalerie cover 19th century. once process completed, perhaps 2020, gemäldegalerie’s painting collection transferred bode, , new annex, , museum island present art ancient civilizations though 1900. james simon gallery, $94 million visitors’ center designed british architect david chipperfield, being built beside neues museum. in turn linked neues, altes, pergamon , bode museums underground passageway decorated archaeological objects.

once museum island master plan completed, so-called archaeological promenade connect 4 of 5 museums in museum island. promenade begin @ old museum in south, lead through new museum , pergamon museum , end @ bode museum, located @ northern tip of island. before world war ii, these museums connected bridge passages above ground; destroyed due effects of war. there have never been plans rebuild them; instead, central courts of individual museums lowered, has been done in bode museum , in new museum. connected subterranean galleries. in way, archaeological promenade can regarded sixth museum in island, because devised not connecting corridor strung-out exhibition room interdisciplinary presentations. archaeological promenade may characterized cross-total of collections shown separately (in accordance cultural regions, epochs, , art genres) in individual museums of island. archaeological promenade address multi-focus topics have occupied human mind irrespective of time , cultural region, question of life after death or issues of beauty , other topics.

museum island referenced in song on museum island folk artist emmy great.

the southern section of island, south of gertraudenstraße, commonly referred fischerinsel (fisher island) , site of high-rise apartment development built when mitte part of east berlin.