Info
Pergamonmuseum:
tel
(030)20 90 55 77
Info
Kulturforum:
tel
(030) 266 29 51
Info Dahlem:
tel
(030) 830 14 38
Museuminsel (Museums Island)
(Bus 100, 200, TXL; tram M1, 12; M-/S-Bhf. Friedrichstraße)
- Altes Museum (Old Museum)-Ägyptisches Museum
Entrance at Lustgarten.
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm
This building was designed by K.F. Schinkel (1825-1830), which
became the first royal museum in Prussia. For the museum’s 175th
birthday, Nefertiti, the ‘most popular Berliner’, and the Egyptian
Museum returned to the Museuminsel after their stay in
Charlottenburg. The collection of Egyptian art is being exhibited
in the bright lounges on the top floor. Right under Nefertiti the
‘praying youngster’ invites you to come visit the archaeological
collection.
Entrance at the Bodenstraße
Tue-Su 10am-6pm, Thu until 10pm
The building, shaped like a Greek temple (built from 1867 until
1876), is designed by Friedrich August Stüler, one of Schinkel’s
students. In 2002 it was reopened at the Museuminsel as the first
restored museum. It houses masterpieces from the 19th
century (pictorial and sculpture art).
Entrance: Monbijoubrücke
The design of this museum (1897-1904) is by Ernst von Ihne.
Formerly the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. Splendid staircase in domed
hall. Closed for reconstruction until 2006.
Entrance: Kupfergraben
Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Thursday till 10pm
The last museum to be erected on Museum Island (1912-1930). The
museum houses several collections: the Pergamon altar piece is
surely the biggest crowd puller of the Antiquities department. The
Market Gate of Milete is also very impressive. The jewel in the
crown of the Museum of Islamic Art is without any doubt the
façade of Mschatta Castle (Jordan). The Asia Museum astounds with
Ishtar’s Gate and Babylon’s Processional Avenue.
Museums in Charlottenburg
(Bus
109, 145, 309)
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory)
and the Galerie der Romantik are housed in several wings of
Schloss Charlottenburg. What’s more, the Ägyptisches
Museum (Museum of Egyptian Antiquities) and the Sammlung
Berggruen (Berggruen Collection) also belong
to Berlin’s state museums.
Museum Berggruen
Schlossstrasse 1, Charlottenburg
Tel. 3 26 95 80
Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday/Sunday 11am-6pm
The magnificent collection of modern classics from art collector
Heinz Berggruen – permanent possession of Berlin – shows besides
70 works from Picasso also paintings from contemporaries like
Klee, van Gogh and Cézanne.
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Langhansbau, Schloss Charlottenburg
Tel 32 67 48 11, Tue-Fr 9am-5pm, Sa/Su from 10am
The western wing of the castle originally served as a theatre,
later it became a furniture stockroom and after that a museum.
Since 2004, after the thorough renovation, the 175 years old
museum now has a very modern look. It houses real treasures like
the reproductions of Schliemann’s Troy foundings and the Berlin
golden hat from the Bronze Age.
Museum für
Fotografie – Helmut Newton Stiftung
Jebensstraße
2, Charlottenburg
U-Bahn-station Zoologischer Garten
20 90 55 66
Tue-Su 10am-6pm, Thu until 10pm
Shortly before his dead in January 2004, the top photographer
designed his plans for his foundation together with the state
museums, and had the former officer mess at the station Zoo
rebuilt into a modern exhibition area. On the first floor you can
see his work in long term interchanging exhibitions.
The Museum for Photography will take the upper floors after the
restoration. Exhibitions are already being organized.
Museum Dahlem
Kunst und Kulturen der Welt
Lansstrasse 8/ Amimallee 23)27, Zehlendorf
M 1 Dahlem-Dorf
Tel
830 14 38, Tue-Fr 10am-6pm, Sa-Su from 11am
The Ethnologisches Museum invites you to take a tour
through art and cultures outside of Europe. Truly sensational is
the new permanent exhibition ‘Art from Africa’. It looks like a
treasure house that presents masterpieces from African artists –
especially sculptures and masks – and addresses the meaning of the
art from that continent. Different but just as fascinating is the
large collection from the Pacific with original boats and houses,
and the collection from Central America with art from the Maya and
the Aztecs. Another centre of gravity is the exhibition ‘Indians
of North America’.
In the same building you’ll also find the Museum für Indische
Kunst and the the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst. In
the cleverly organized lounges you can admire the treasures from
cultures that are thousands of years old.
Museum Europäischer Kulturen (Museum of European Cultures)
M 1 Dahlem-Dorf
Arnimallee 25
Tel
83
90 12 87
Tuesday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday/Sunday 11am-6pm
The Museum for European cultures has found a new home at the
Bruno-Paul-Bau, which is connected to the Ethnologisches Museum.
The first long term exhibition looks back upon ‘The hour zero.
1945 survive.’
