A visual treat for the visitors, the Pergamon Museum is one of the crowning jewels in the Museum Islands in Berlin. Constructed between 1910 and 1930, the Pergamon Museum is a sister museum of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum or the Bode Museum.
Some of the things to see in Pergamon Museum are:
- The Antiquity Collection: This particular section of the Pergamon Museum house antiques like the Pergamon Altar, which is considered to be the altar of God Zeus.
- The Islamic Art Museum: This part of the museum mainly contains the art and the artifacts of the Middle East
particularly of Iran and Egypt. Some of the other things that are preserved here include ceramics, wood carvings,metalwork, textiles, jewelry, and calligraphic works.
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- The Near East Museum: This section houses excavated and antique collections from places like Babylonia, Persia, and Assyria. Among the antiques is the model of the Tower of Babel in the Babylonian Hall. The façade of the throne hall of King Nebuchadnezzar and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon also form some of the important attractions here.
During the turmoil of the Second World War, the museum was completely under collapse but the paintings and the sculptures were saved from dilapidation. While some of the antiques were cemented in the walls of the museums to avoid the consequences of the bombings, others were transferred to safer places like Hermitage and the Pushkin Museums. Restored to their rightful places in the 1950s, these antiques now form some of the chief attractions of the Pergamon Museum.
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