Pergamon Museum
The Pergamon Altar and the collections of the Vorderasiatisches Museum once filled this hall — closed since 2023, with the North Wing returning in 2027.
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Built 1910–1930 on Berlin's Museum Island for finds from Babylon, Uruk, Assur, Miletus, and Priene that no existing German museum could display. The three-wing Stripped Classicism building joined UNESCO's World Heritage List in 1999. Comprehensive renovations will run until 2037–2043, but a partial reopening is coming.
What to look for
- The three-wing Stripped Classicism exterior — designed by Alfred Messel from 1906, completed under Ludwig Hoffmann through WWI and the 1920s inflation
- The Pergamon Altar, centrepiece of the Antikensammlung before the 2023 closure
- The North Wing, the first section returning to visitors in 2027
Closed entirely since October 2023; North Wing expected to reopen 2027; full reopening not before 2037.
Pergamon Museum 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.
- Fernsehturm BerlinA 368-metre Cold War statement that outlived the government that built it — and now stands for the city that absorbed it.
- Museum IslandFive museums on one island, built across a century by Prussian kings — now a UNESCO site for showing how museums themselves evolved.