Museum island berlin

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The Museum Island and the Television Tower in Berlin on a cloudy morning

Berlin Cathedral and Museum Island in Berlin, Germany

Bode Museum (Entrance Hall), Berlin Photographer: Reinhard Görner

Berlin, Museum Island/Museuminsel Berlin. Of the 4 museums, 1 museum is closed due to construction, the remaining 3 are open. You can visit all 3 in one day - but it’s A LOT, even for an art lover! If you have the time, I’d say spread out your visits so you don’t feel rushed or overwhelmed. We visited one museum in the afternoon and then the other 2 on another day. The first museum we visited was Alte Nationalgalerie at 4pm since closing time was 6pm. They definitely closed at exactly 6pm…

The Museum Island, Berlin, Germany

From museums and memorials to art and an abandoned airport, our experts reveals what to do in the German city

Night falling over Berlin's Museum Island.

The art museum is a social phenomenon that owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment and its extension to all people to the French Revolution. The Museumsinsel is the most outstanding example of this concept given material form and a symbolic central urban setting, and one that illustrates the evolution of modern museum design over more than a century. The present importance of the Museumsinsel began when the Altes Museum was built to the designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1824-28. A…