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Altes Museum

This is a photograph of an architectural monument: the Altes Museum in Berlin, seen from the Lustgarten. It is on the list of cultural monuments of Berlin, no. 09030059.

View along the row of columns at the entrance of the Old Museum in Berlin.

Bronze inspired by antiquity showing the fight of a horseman and a lion, located at the entrance of the Altes Museum.

The rotunda of the Altes Museum. The building of the Altes Museum (Old Museum) was constructed between 1823 and 1828 facing the palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in a neoclassical style, with an Ionic colonnade, to house the art collection of the Prussian royal family. It opened to the public in 1830. The original More
rotunda refers to the Pantheon in Rome. It was invisible from the outside because it was not meant to compete with the dome of the neighboring cathedral. The Altes Museum is located on Museum Island and presents collections of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities. Less

This is a photograph of an architectural monument: the Altes Museum in Berlin, seen from the Lustgarten. It is on the list of cultural monuments of Berlin, no. 09030059.

View along the row of columns at the entrance of the Old Museum in Berlin.

Bronze inspired by antiquity showing the fight of a horseman and a lion, located at the entrance of the Altes Museum.

The rotunda of the Altes Museum. The building of the Altes Museum (Old Museum) was constructed between 1823 and 1828 facing the palace by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in a neoclassical style, with an Ionic colonnade, to house the art collection of the Prussian royal family. It opened to the public in 1830. The original rotunda refers to the Pantheon in Rome. It was invisible from the outside because it was not meant to compete with the dome of the neighboring cathedral. The Altes Museum is located on Museum Island and presents collections of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities.

Altes Museum

Berlin, Germany

The main floor of the Altes Museum features the antiquities collection in an ongoing exhibit titled “Neue Antike im Alten Museum” (New Antiquities in the Old Museum). Entering from the Lustgarten—currently under reconstruction—visitors step directly into a domed rotunda. The space is decorated with red and white cameos in a Greek style and lined with statues of the gods, creating a dramatic introduction to the galleries.

Finding the Hildesheim Silver Collection

From the rotunda, head to the back and turn left. Continue along the long gallery, then make another left into a small room at the end. This is where the Hildesheim silver collection is displayed.

Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altes_Museum

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