Museum Island, Berlin

The museum island is one destination in Berlin that the whole world wants to have and the island lies between the River Spree and Kupfergraben. There are several buildings on the island and it houses all types of archaeological collections and different kinds of art belonging to the nineteenth century.

The art treasures well made available to the public for the first time since the first half of the nineteenth century. The place is more like a complex with a number of museums being present in the same place with the last one being the Pergamon Museum which opened way back in the 1930s. The island museum complex had suffered great destruction during the Second World War with more than seventy percent of the structures having destroyed in the hostilities connected to the war. However as and when peace has been restored the authorities have taken due care to restore the museum island complex to its original glory and slowly but surely it is being restored to its original glory.

Some of the museums that are housed in this island complex

Altes Museum

This museum has a good collection of antiquities which are master pieces in their own right.

Alte Nationalgalarie

This houses some nineteenth century sculptures and paintings and was the first building to have been opened when it was restored in December 2001

The Bode

This museum has a collection of sculptures of Byzantine Art and Late Antique but unfortunately it has been closed for renovation but one hopes that the museum should be open for the general public soon. Other than this museum the Numastmatic Collection is also closed at present. The Neues museum on the other hand is being restored to accommodate the Egyptian museum and the Musuem of Pre and Early History. Besides these there is the Pergamon Museum that showcases Islamic art and near ancient art.