Visit Museum Island in Berlin to Enhance Your Experience

If you don't love museums or only have a limited time, the one we recommend is Pergamon Museum, where you can see the Babylonian culture from Jay Chou's songs and the magnificent Islamic culture. The museum building itself is shocking and magnificent. It has been said that every single one of the artifacts there can be treated as a treasure in any other museum. In addition to Babylonian art, you can also see a comprehensive and detailed collection of Mesopotamian , Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian , and other ancient relics of today's Syria and Iraq, as well as Persian art. After lingering there for several hours, all you will be able to think about is how much of a miracle the place is.

Neues Museum is located in the south of Museum Island. The museum mainly collects ancient Egyptian art work. The greatest of the museum's treasures is the bust of Nefertiti, the wife of a Pharaoh, which has a history of more than 3,300 years. The statue which was built 3,300 years ago is still very bright. It is called the most beautiful bust in the world. With a dedicated exhibition hall for the bust, it is an absolute must-see VIP exhibit! Although it is called Neues Museum, it is actually an "old museum" built in 1841 and the second oldest museum on Museum Island. In addition to the treasures of the museum, the new museum also collects many ancient Egyptian cultural relics, such as statues, tombs, and jewelry. Unfortunately, there are no mummies. If you want to see mummies, you may need get on a flight and go to the British Museum.

Altes Museum in Berlin was originally named Royal Museum, is located on the edge of Museum Island and adjacent to Berlin Cathedral. It is a representative attraction in Berlin and the first museum to be built on Museum Island. It is therefore named the old museum. The museum mainly collects works of art from ancient Greece and Rome. The core of the museum is a round hall surrounded by 20 Corinthian columns, among which are many statues of ancient Greek and Roman gods, imitating the pantheon of Rome. You can also see statues of Caesar and Cleopatra. In addition, you can see many statues, stone carvings, vases, coins and gold and silver ornaments from ancient Greece and Rome.

Bode Museum is located in the north of Museum Island and is a baroque building that was built in 1904. The museum mainly collects a large number of sculptures, Byzantine art work and ancient Roman coins. Compared with other museums on the island, it has received relatively little attention, and is less visited and thus much quieter. There are more than 1,700 sculptures, more than 300 Byzantine art works and 150 famous oil paintings in the museum. Important exhibits include sculptures, ivory carvings and Christian sarcophaguses. In addition to sculptures and paintings, Bode Museum has a collection of half a million coins. In turn, the coin pavilion displays more than 4,000 coins. Coins from ancient Greece, Rome and Asia Minor are included.

The German Historical Museum consists of two parts. On the street under a bodhi tree is the Berlin Armory with a history of more than 300 years. It was the first Baroque style large-scale building in Berlin and the oldest building on the street. Behind the armory is a new museum designed by the world renowned architect Mr. Leoh Ming Pei, which was completed in 2004. There are more than 8,000 historical exhibits in the museum, recording important political events from history and the development process of social, economic, and cultural history. You can learn the history of Germany over the changing course of Europe here, especially the history of war. The new museum is mainly a temporary exhibition with various themes.

Jewish Museum Berlin is near Charlie Checkpoint. The exhibits here record the historical relics and life of German Jews over 2,000 years. Architect Daniel Libeskind's design makes the museum not only a space for displaying objects, but also an exhibit in itself. There are many unique spaces in the museum which will move people to tears. The permanent decorative art in the museum known as "fallen leaves” is very famous. This was created by an Israeli artist who made more than 10,000 different rough faces out of three-centimeter thick steel. When the visitors walk through the exhibition hall covered with "steel faces", the impact on the steel makes a "clanging" sound, as if it is a cry from something under their feet. In addition, there is also a despairing and depressing "catastrophe tower". There is no light source or heating in the tall tower which is 20 m high. In the dark space, there is only faint light from the skylight which is only turned on at fixed times. Also, what really touches the soul is the "Courtyard of Exile", which expresses the hard work of those exiled in foreign countries through concrete square columns and vertical spaces.

DDR museum is a private museum in downtown Berlin which provides a variety of interactive activities that allow visitors to vividly experience the lives of people in East Germany. The museum takes interaction as its selling point, and most of its exhibits can be touched and interacted with. For example, take a ride in a vintage car, watch TV or watch a documentary in an East German style living room. It also reveals some sinister information about the East German period.

The Story of Berlin is a private museum in downtown Berlin. It is located on Kurfürstendamm. The Museum covers an area of 6,000 square meters and has 23 exhibition halls. Its visitors can learn the 800-year history of Berlin and experience the life of the people of Berlin during its different periods. The biggest highlight of the museum is that you can visit the fallout shelters built during the cold war, and experience an atmosphere of war in its cold and narrow environment. Shelters for thousands of people are full of cramped beds and only four bathrooms are available, which do not allow you to take a bath. At the end of the exhibition, there is the sound of an alarm which gives visitors a sense of fear and oppression.