New Museum - Neues Museum (Berlin) | UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed building / architectural heritage

 museum, UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed building / architectural heritage

Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, Germany
Phone:+49 30 266424242
www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/neues-museum/hom...

The Neues Museum, located north of (behind) the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island (a World Heritage Site), was built between 1843 and 1855 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The museum was partly destroyed in World War II and sat as a ruin throughout the East German period. It was finally restored and reopened in 2009.

The new portions of the building, strikingly designed by British architect David Chipperfield, are intentionally plain and do not match the highly decorated surviving original portions.

The museum exhibits the Egyptian and Pre- and Early History Collections, as it did before the war. Among the treasures is the famous bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti.