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Museum Island Berlin

More than 6,000 years of human history

Welcome to Museum Island Berlin

What is Museum Island Berlin?

Five museums, one island

A Tour of the Domed Halls

Why you shouldn't forget to look up at Museum Island

The history of us

Artifacts that show people haven't changed - the #HistoryOfUs exhibition series

The Price of Poor Decision-Making

GAINS SELFIE! #gains #fitness #ripped #gymlife #bestself #goals #noskin #shredded

Relationship Status: It's Complicated

When Cleo Met Julius

Mum Can Do It!

Ahead of Her Time

Nobody is 100% Anything

Queen, Wife, Mother ... Goddess?

Attention! Cat Content

Fashion Queen

Crazy In Love

The Pharaoh Erased From History

#Upcycle Your Idol

Dating Aid

Let It All Go

Personal Brand On Point

History's most beautiful woman

An Audience with Queen Nefertiti

A guided tour of the artworks

The hidden stories behind the masterpieces

In The Conservatory

by Édouard Manet

Frederick the Great and his Marshals before the Battle of Leuthen

by Adolph Menzel

The Interior Of The Palm House

by Carl Blechen

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle

by Arnold Böcklin

Emperor Francis I of Austria

by Friedrich von Amerling

Portrait of Alexander von Humboldt

by Friedrich Georg Weitsch

Schinkel in Naples

by Franz Ludwig Catel

The Hunt For Happiness

by Rudolf Friedrich August Henneberg

View of Vétheuil

by Claude Monet

The First Step

by Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim

Lieutenant-General Minutoli in the Siwah Oasis

by Louis Faure

Spring Landscape

by Charles-François Daubigny

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

by Jakob Schlesinger

The Judgement of Paris

by Doman (Thomas) Hering

Bronze Age treasure

Life and Belief During the Bronze Age

Explore the Berlin Gold Hat, and more

Explore a 3D Model of the Berlin Gold Hat

See the stunning artifact from every angle

Giant mysteries, unearthed

Pergamon Altar and Ishtar Gate

What Happened in Pergamon?

The story of its creation and excavation

The Eighth Wonder of the World

The journey of the Altar to the Pergamonmuseum

Ishtar Gate and Processional Way

How the mysterious fragments were found and reassembled

Watch Ishtar Gate and Babylon Virtually Reunited in 3D

Explore a 3D Model of the Ishtar Gate

See the famous gate from all angles

Five iconic museums

Altes Museum

Germany

Neues Museum

Germany

Alte Nationalgalerie

Germany

Bode-Museum

Germany

Pergamonmuseum

Germany

Behind-the-scenes

Inspiring stories

The Refugees Who Became Museum Guides

The incredible work of the Multaqa-Project

Remembering the Missing Artworks

The masterpieces you won't see in Museum Island

Discover the buildings

The architecture of Museum Island

The Domes of the Altes Museum

The magnificent space of the Rotunda

How the Art Matches the Architecture

An insight into the layout of Alte-Nationalgalerie

Refurbishing the Neues Museum

How the architectural masterpiece was restored

Same dramas, different century

Stories of timeless human qualities - the #HistoryOfUs exhibition series

VANITY AND BODY IMAGE

A history of vanity, ego and body image

REBELLION

The disrupters. The change-makers. The rebels.

YOLO

Not now death, I'm painting

MODERN ROMANCE

It's complicated

FEMALE EMPOWERMENT

Who Run The World

WANDERLUST

The ancient call of the wild

How Museum Island preserves great art

Restoration and conservation

The Return of the Monk

Conserving two masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich

A Masterpiece with War Wounds

The tragic history of the restoration of Rossellino's relief "Mary with child"

Three-Dimensional Memory

Creating exact original casts of important sculptures

Zoom into the details

Discover the tiny details and brushstrokes, up close

Processional Way, Babylon

Unknown

Book of the Dead of Neferini

Unknown

Centaur mosaic from the Villa Hadriana

Unknown

Annunciation

Lucca

In The Conservatory

Édouard Manet

Discover more than 6,000 years of human history through time

Step inside

Take a virtual tour

Explore Altes Museum

Explore Neues Museum

Explore Alte Nationalgalerie

Explore Bode-Museum

Explore Pergamonmuseum

Google Expeditions

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Online Exhibits

Artworks and artifacts

Videos

Articles

Collections

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