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Neues Museum
Opening hours
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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Grand 19th-century museum with collections of Egyptian artwork & prehistoric archaeology.via Google
Housed in a beautifully restored building by David Chipperfield, it holds the world-famous bust of Queen Nefertiti and extensive Egyptian antiquities.
- Good to know
- Price band €€; reserve a timed-entry ticket online well in advance.
Reviews from Google
Great musuem. Can get tickets at door or online. Need at least 2 hours to enjoy full tour. Provided with headsets and able to go at our own pace.
A fantastic place if you like ancient history. The setup is great and walking through the rooms full of Egyptian sarcophagi gives you chills. Nefertiti is obviously the star of the show, but I also really enjoyed the prehistoric section with all the ancient tools and that crazy golden hat. It’s huge, so give yourself enough time to explore everything!
Spectacular content including the Amarna galleries, Nefertiti, Troy, European early & prehistory. The museum is sensitively modernised & small enough not to leave you exhausted. If I had to criticise it maybe some of the wider context explanations may have been making random connections, but yes it's useful to think wider than just the object in front of you
The Neues Museum in Berlin is a cornerstone of historical and archaeological scholarship, renowned for its exceptional collection of Egyptian and prehistoric artifacts. Its most famous exhibit, the bust of Nefertiti, exemplifies the museum’s dedication to preserving and presenting ancient cultures with scholarly rigor and artistic sensitivity. The museum itself is a remarkable architectural achievement, having been meticulously restored after severe damage during World War II, blending historical preservation with modern design. As a vital part of Berlin’s Museum Island, the Neues Museum offers invaluable insights into human history and cultural development, making it an essential destination for historians, archaeologists, and visitors interested in the ancient world and wanting to understand our amazingly creative humans have been throughout history. The only improvement they could make would be to have a visitors book, like in England so that visitors could record their feelings of awe and wonder as well as their favourite moments.
An incredible opportunity to see these unique, rare and amazing displaced artifacts stolen from their homeland for the benefit of us all and the profit of whoever owns these places. I loved walking around and would have spent hours if I had more time! It’s def worth it, especially with the berlin card in a tour of all museums. Words are not enough, so here are some pictures, thanks! ✌️