Berlin State Museums

Museum Island: ICE train between Bode and Pergamon Museum

Kulturforum

Dahlem Museums

Köpenick Palace

The Berlin State Museums (German: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) are a group of institutions in Berlin, Germany, comprising seventeen museums in five clusters, several research institutes, libraries, and supporting facilities. They are overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and funded by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal states. The central complex on Museum Island was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1999. By 2007 the Berlin State Museums had grown into the largest complex of museums in Europe.^[1]

Museum Locations

Berlin-Mitte

• Museum Island
  • Altes Museum: Roman and Greek Classical Antiquities
  • Alte Nationalgalerie: 19th century sculptures and paintings.
  • Bode-Museum: the Numismatic Collection, Sculpture Collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art
  • Neues Museum: the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and its Papyrus Collection, and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Prehistory and Early History)
  • Pergamon Museum: the Antikensammlung Berlin, Museum of Islamic art, Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Central Archive
• Friedrichswerder Church: early 19th century sculptures

Tiergarten/Moabit

• Kulturforum
  • Gemäldegalerie: Old Masters paintings
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum: Museum of decorative art
  • Kupferstichkabinett: Drawings and print room
  • Kunstbibliothek: Art Library
  • Neue Nationalgalerie: New National Gallery
• Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum for contemporary art including the Flick Collection

Charlottenburg

• Museum Berggruen: classic modern art
• Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation
• Museum Scharf-Gerstenberg: surrealist art
• Gipsformerei (Replica workshop)

Dahlem

• Ethnological Museum of Berlin: American Archaeology, Music Ethnology, North American Indians, South Sea, East Asia, Africa, Junior Museum
• Museum of Asian Art: Collection of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art; Collection of East Asian Art
• Museum Europäischer Kulturen: European Cultures

Köpenick Palace

• Kunstgewerbemuseum: Museum of decorative art

Berlin State Library

• Two locations, Haus Unter Den Linden and Haus Potstdamer Straße, are open to the public; various others are not.

Research Institutes

• Institute for Museum Research
• Rathgen Research Laboratory
• Center for Provenance Research and Investigation

See also

• List of museums in Berlin

References

1. Langels, Otto: "Constitutional Reality: 50 years of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation", in German, Deutschlandradio, 25 July 2007

External links

• Berlin State Museums website
• Museumsportal Berlin: All museums, memorials, castles and collections with detailed information