The area between the branches of the River Spree and Lustgarten Park is called Museum Island. Museum Island. Here, several museums have collected masterpieces of world art from antiquity to the twentieth century.
In 1830, the Old Museum building was built here, adorned with 18 Ionic columns and a wide external staircase. The museum's exhibition includes part of the National Gallery's collection (dating back to the twentieth century), a graphic arts cabinet with fifteenth- and twentieth-century engravings of the XV-XX centuries and the creative heritage of Adolf von Menzel, K.F.Schinkel and G.Shadov. G. Schadow.
The Old National Gallery houses paintings and sculptures of the 18th and 19th century works by 18th- and 19th-century masters, including works by Cézanne, Degas, Rodin, Rauch, Shadov and many others.
The Pergamon Museum was built in 1912-1930. The main exhibit is the Pergamon Pergamon altar, an altar of Zeus decorated with a sculptural frieze (2nd century BC), found in the neighbourhood of Smyrna at the end of the 19th century. The Pergamon Museum also houses the Gate of Ishtar Ishtar, covered with glazed tiles of dark blue and yellow colours. They were erected under the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in 580 BC. The Islamic Museum It also houses the Islamic Museum, where you can see the facade and fragments of the Mshatta Castle, Persian carpets and a collection of miniatures.
The Bode Museum houses several museums: the Museum of Ancient Egypt with a huge collection of ancient papyri. Museum of Ancient Egypt with a huge collection of ancient papyri; the Museum of Early Christian and Byzantine Art Museum of Early Christian and Byzantine Art; the Picture Gallery, the Sculpture Museum and the Numismatic Cabinet.
