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Museum Island
Five great museums on an island in the Spree, a UNESCO site, with the bust of Nefertiti in the Neues Museum.
- Open
- Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays
- Price
- Paid; a day ticket covers all the open museums
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Bodestrasse 1–3, 10178 BerlinDirections
- Getting There
- Museumsinsel station (U5), or Hackescher Markt (S-Bahn).
Why Go
Built between 1830 and 1930, the museums hold collections from the ancient world to the 19th century. The Neues Museum has the painted bust of Queen Nefertiti, the Altes Museum Greek and Roman art, and the Alte Nationalgalerie German Romantic painting.
The Pergamon Museum, with the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, is closed for a long renovation, with part of it due to reopen in 2027.
Nearby in Berlin
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