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The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) are a group of institutions in
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The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) are a group of institutions in Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
, Germany, comprising seventeen museums in five clusters; several research institutes; libraries; and supporting facilities. They are overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (; SPK) is a German federal government body that oversees 27 museums and cultural organizations in and around Berlin, Germany. Its purview includes all of Berlin's State Museums, the Berlin State Librar ...
and funded by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal states. The central complex on Museum Island
The Museum Island (, ) is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree (river), Spree Island in the Mitte (locality), historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites ...
was added to the UNESCO
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list of World Heritage Site
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s in 1999. By 2007, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin had grown into the largest complex of museums in Europe. The museum was originally founded by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia in 1823 as the Königliche Museen (Royal Museums).
The director-general of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is Floretine Dietrich.
Museum locations
Mitte
Mitte () is the first and most central borough of Berlin. The borough consists of six sub-entities: Mitte proper, Gesundbrunnen, Hansaviertel, Moabit, Tiergarten and Wedding.
It is one of the two boroughs (the other being Friedrichshain-Kreuz ...
* Museum Island
The Museum Island (, ) is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree (river), Spree Island in the Mitte (locality), historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites ...
** Altes Museum
The Altes Museum (English: ''Old Museum'') is a List of World Heritage Sites in Germany, listed building on the Museum Island in the Mitte (locality), historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built between 1825 and 1830 by order of King Frederick Will ...
: Greek and Roman Classical antiquities
** Alte Nationalgalerie
The Alte Nationalgalerie ( ''Old National Gallery'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. The gallery was built from 1862 to 1876 by the order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia according to ...
: 19th-century sculptures and paintings
** Bode Museum
The Bode Museum (), formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum (), is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor William II according to plans by Ernst ...
: the Numismatic
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Specialists, known as numismatists, are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, but the discipline also inclu ...
Collection, Sculpture Collection and the Museum of Byzantine Art
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** James Simon Gallery
The James Simon Gallery () is an art gallery located between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree river on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by architect David Chipperfield and opened in 2019. As ...
: reception building for the complex
** Neues Museum
The Neues Museum (, ''New Museum'') is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, ...
: the Egyptian Museum of Berlin
The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of Berlin () is home to one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian artefacts, including the Nefertiti Bust. Since 1855, the collection is a part of the Neues Museum on Berlin's ...
and its Papyrus Collection, and the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History)
** Pergamon Museum
The Pergamon Museum (; ) is a Kulturdenkmal , listed building on the Museum Island in the Mitte (locality), historic centre of Berlin, Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Wilhelm II and accordi ...
: the Antikensammlung
The Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin antiquities collection) is one of the most important collections of classical art in the world, now held in the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. It contains thousands of ancient archaeologica ...
, Museum of Islamic Art, Vorderasiatisches Museum
The Vorderasiatisches Museum (, ''Near East Museum'') is an archaeological museum in Berlin. It is in the basement of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum and has one of the world's largest collections of Southwest Asian art. 14 halls distrib ...
(Museum of the Ancient Near East) and Zentralarchiv (Central Archive)
* Friedrichswerder Church
Friedrichswerder Church (, ) was the first Neo-Gothic church built in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by an architect better known for his Neoclassical architecture, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and was built under his direction from 1824 to 1831 ...
: early 19th-century sculptures
* Humboldt Forum
The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It is named in honour of the Prussian scholars Wilhelm von Humboldt, Wilhelm and Alexa ...
** Ethnological Museum: American archaeology, music ethnology, North American Indians
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, South Sea, East Asia
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, Africa
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, Junior Museum
**Museum of Asian Art
The Museum of Asian Art () has been a part of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin since 2020. Before its relocation, the museum was sited in the neighborhood of the borough of , Berlin, Germany. It is one of the Berlin State Museums and funded by the Pr ...
: Collection of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art; Collection of East Asian Art
Moabit
Moabit () is an inner city locality in the boroughs of Berlin, borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2022, about 84,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial sector, industr ...
*Kulturforum
The Kulturforum () is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin. It was built up in the 1950s and 1960s at the edge of West Berlin, south of the Tiergarten, after most of the once unified city's cultural assets had been lost behind the Ber ...
**: Old Master paintings
** Kunstgewerbemuseum: Museum of decorative art
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** Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett: Drawings and print room
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A further meaning is a room decorated ...
** Kunstbibliothek: Art Library
**Neue Nationalgalerie
The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its sculpt ...
: New National Gallery
*Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart is the former Train station#Terminus, terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as ...
: Museum for contemporary art
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, including the Flick Collection
Charlottenburg
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* Museum Berggruen: Classic modern art
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* Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton
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Foundation
* Museum Scharf-Gerstenberg: Surrealist art
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*Gipsformerei (Replica
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workshop)
Berlin State Library
The Berlin State Library (; officially abbreviated as ''SBB'', colloquially ''Stabi'') is a universal library in Berlin, Germany, and a property of the German public cultural organization the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ().
Founded in ...
*Two locations, Haus Unter den Linden and Haus Potsdamer Straße, are open to the public; various others are not.
Research institutes
* Institute for Museum Research, Dahlem * Rathgen Research Laboratory, Charlottenburg *Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
The (Central Archive of the Berlin State Museums) is an academic institution in Berlin, Germany, linked with the collections and administrative departments of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It functions as the primary site for research and pres ...
, Mitte
See also
* List of museums in BerlinReferences
External links
* * {{Authority control, state=collapsed 1823 establishments in the German Confederation Museums established in 1823 * Prussian cultural sites Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Frederick William III of Prussia