The Pergamon Museum is the most famous museum in Berlin, built between 1910 and 1930 and the flagship of the equally famous Museum Island, connected by the Eastern end of Unter den Linden. The Pergamon Museum collects the fruits of the golden age of archeology in Germany. In the court of honor are exposed bronze sculptures and pieces of old monuments and the parts that come from the excavations at Olympia.

The Altar of Pergamon, which is named after the museum (Pergamon Museum), is the gem of the collection. Impressive and breathtaking, is among the finest examples of classical art, built in the second century BC in the ancient city of Pergamum (now Bergama in Turkey) in the region of Anatolia.

From Babylon comes instead the Ishtar Gate, another symbol of the museum. Noteworthy also is the Assyrian-Babylonian art collections, greek-roman and Arabic.

The Pergamon Museum was seriously damaged during the war: the main works were walled for protection, others were transported to Russia. Some of them returned to East Germany only in 1958, but many are still kept in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Opening of the Pergamon Museum:

10h00-18h00

Thursday 10h00-22h00

Free Thursday