Museums and Tourism in Berlin

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• Museums in Berlin• Alte Nationalgalerie• Bode Museum• Pergamon Museum• Museum of Photography• Brücke Museum• Jewish Museum Berlin• Bauhaus Archive• Museum für Naturkunde• Schloss Britz• Tourists in Berlin Graph• Tourists in Berlin Graph 2

Museums in Berlin

• Berlin is the capital city of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany.

• Berlin is Germany's largest city.• It is the center of the Berlin-

Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 4.5 million residents from over 180 nations.

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Alte Nationalgalerie

• This is a gallery showing a collection of Neoclassical, Romantic, Biedermeier, Impressionist and early Modernist artwork.

• It is situated on Museum Island, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.

• The Alte Nationalgalerie houses one of the largest collections of 19th-century sculptures and paintings in Germany.

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Bode Museum

• The museum was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904.

• Is now the home for a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins and medals.

• The sculpture collection shows art of the Christian Orient (with an emphasis on Coptic Egypt), sculptures from Byzantium and Ravenna, sculptures of the Middle Ages, the Italian Gothic, and the early Renaissance.

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Pergamon Museum

• The Pergamon Museum houses original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar and the Market Gate of Miletus.

• The antiquity collection contains sculpture from archaic to Hellenistic ages as well as artwork from Greek and Roman antiquity: architecture, sculptures, inscriptions, mosaics, bronzes, jewelry and pottery.

• In terms of Islamic artwork it contains artworks from the 8th to the 19th century ranging from Spain to India.

• And lastly there is the Middle East exhibition which displays objects, found by German archeologists and others.

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Museum of Photography

• It was erected in 1909 according to plans by Heino Schmieden.

• The museum opened in 2004 and also houses the collection of the Helmut Newton Foundation. In addition to the rotating special exhibits, the permanent exhibits.

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Brücke Museum

• The Brücke Museum in Berlin houses the world's largest collection of works by Die Brücke ("The Bridge"), an early 20th-century expressionist movement.

• It features around 400 paintings and sculptures and several thousand drawings, watercolors and prints by members of Die Brücke.

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Jewish Museum Berlin

• Is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe.

• Two millennia of German-Jewish history are on display in the permanent exhibition as well as in various changing exhibitions.

• The exhibition begins with displays on medieval settlements along the Rhine and dealing with The Baroque period , Age of Emancipation and the National Socialism.

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Bauhaus Archive

• Also known as Museum of Design, in Berlin, it collects art pieces, items, documents and literature which relate to the Bauhaus School.

• The collection documents the history of Bauhaus in art, teaching, architecture and design.

• The comprehensive graphic collection includes drawings, watercolors and prints. More Info

Museum für Naturkunde

• Is a natural history museum. The museum houses more than 30 million zoological, paleontological, and mineralogical specimens, including more than ten thousand type specimens.

• It is the largest museum of natural history in Germany.

• The museum's mineral collections date back to the Prussian Academy of 1700.

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Schloss Britz

• Is the former manor-house of the historical Rittergut (country estate) and village Britz, now a district of Berlin-Neukölln.

• It includes authentic reconstructed rooms from around 1880.

• The house is a museum demonstrating splendid interiors of the Gründerzeit (economic boom) era. More Info

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