Museum Tour
Pergamon Museum
Pergamonmuseum
with Museum of Islamic Art (Museum für Islamische Kunst), Museum of the Ancient Near East (Vorderasiatisches Museum), and Collection of Classical Antiquities (Antikensammlung)
Bodestraße 1-3
10178 Berlin
The Pergamon Museum was the last building to be completed on the Museum Island in 1930 after a construction period of 20 years. Alfred Messel was the designing architect. Following his death in 1909, Ludwig Hoffmann assumed responsibility for implementing the plans.
A smaller purpose-built structure stood on this location from 1901 to 1909, where frieze fragments of the Greek Pergamon Altar were put on show. A new building became a necessity when the foundations were found to be defect.
The building in its current form - a courtyard complex facing the Kupfergraben - was not originally planned. War and inflation led to abandoning the envisaged connecting tract at the waterfront for financial reasons. In 1980 in the former GDR, a new entrance hall was constructed in the courtyard.
The exhibition hall containing the massive Pergamon Altar is situated in the middle section of the museum. In close proximity, the Market Gate from Miletus and the Ishtar Gate and Procession Path from Babylon are displayed - all of them fruits of archaeological campaigns during the Wilhelminian era.
The architectural competition for the restructuring of the Pergamon Museum was won by O.M. Ungers in the year 2000. His design proposes closing the courtyard at the Kupfergraben with a transparent connecting structure, in which Egyptian monumental architecture can be seen in the future. The entrance hall from the 1980s will be replaced by a new portico in an abstract modern form. The ceremonial courtyard will be lowered and transformed into a forum, from which the different sections of the building - the Pergamon Museum itself, the Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art - can be accessed individually. Reconstruction work is to begin in 2008.
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Images:
Landesarchiv Berlin
Landesarchiv Berlin / Klaus Lehnartz (2)
Reiner Elsen
Landesarchiv Berlin / Barbara Esch-Marowski
Landesarchiv Berlin / Stefane Jacob (2)
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