Berlin - Day of the Museums

 Neues and Pergamon Museums

29th July, 2023

Thought we’d do something a bit different, not that we’re museum type people, but we thought it maybe nice to do some of the the museums on Museum Island precinct.

Neues has Egyptian exhibits …plus more and Pergamon has Babylon, Roman, Early Islamic plus, plus, plus.

We got there at 10minutes after opening time and we were lucky to make it in. They had signs up that they were full sold out….but we made it in.  OH I do have an annual pass if anyone is visiting. 

A very enjoyable day, 5 hours wandering through….sore feet.  23deg and 95% humidity.  The German’s don’t do air-conditioning and the huge crowds made it a steamy day…but fun. Well worth it!

Some of the exhibits are 3 to 4 stories high, lots of BC works….arrr, I will put up a small collection of Gill’s pictures to give a flavour. 

Islamic prayer niche, all mosaic tiles, very beautiful.

The “Aleppo” exhibit.  

Papyrus scrolls from the Book of the Dead

Egyptian burial masks

The Neues Museum opened in 1859, so the building itself is amazing.

Is this a picture of a golden hat or mobile phones.

The Berlin Golden Hat - the best preserved specimen among the four known conical golden hats from Bronze Age Europe discovered so far.

The Ishtar Gate reconstruction.  The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city of Babylon.  It was constructed circa 575 BCE by order of King Nebuchadnezzar.  The 1904-1914 excavation was led by German archaeologist Robert Koldewey.  

Potsdam - New Palace

 The New Palace

Lots more palace today, the New Palace isn’t as good as the Sanssouci Palace  I’ve left out lots of the inside pictures because they are so similar.  When Fredrik built the new palace the styles had changed but he built what he liked, that was the same as he already had.

Berlin - Charlottenburg Palace and Garden

  Charlottenburg Palace and Garden

This took an entire day, extensive is an understatement!

This will test even the most battle-hardened blogger reader……just remember this is only a small percentage of pictures we took … we had a fabulous time.