Egyptian Museum of Berlin
The 3,300-year-old Nefertiti Bust — excavated at Amarna and donated in 1920 — still shows colors so vivid they outlasted an empire and a Cold War.
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Artefacts spanning 4000 BC to Roman rule fill a building heavily damaged by strategic bombing in WWII and only reopened in 2009. The collection reached Berlin through an 1842–45 Prussian expedition to Egypt and Nubia, a merchant's private trove, and decades split between East and West Berlin before reuniting on Museum Island.
What to look for
- The Nefertiti Bust — excavated at Amarna by Ludwig Borchardt and donated in 1920, its colors exceptionally well preserved and vivid after three millennia
- Objects brought back by Karl Richard Lepsius's expedition to Egypt and Nubia, 1842–45
- At least 23 mummified examples ranging from the Predynastic era to the Roman period
Inside the Neues Museum on Museum Island — the same Friedrich August Stüler building that housed the collection from 1850, was heavily damaged by strategic bombing, and only reopened after full reconstruction in October 2009.
Egyptian Museum of Berlin is one of 37 sights worth the detour in Berlin, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Berlin pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Berlin
- Berlin WallBuilt to keep citizens in, not enemies out — and the death strip of anti-vehicle trenches and beds of nails makes that intent impossible to misread.
- Brandenburg GateFor 28 years a wall sealed it shut — now you walk straight through.
- ReichstagA fire in 1933, a battle in 1945, a dome in 1999 — you walk inside Germany's working parliament.
- Berlin Olympic Stadium (Olympiastadion)Designed for the 1936 Olympics and still hosting European finals — the bowl has barely left the world stage.
- Pergamon MuseumThe Pergamon Altar and the collections of the Vorderasiatisches Museum once filled this hall — closed since 2023, with the North Wing returning in 2027.
- Fernsehturm BerlinA 368-metre Cold War statement that outlived the government that built it — and now stands for the city that absorbed it.