200 Years Museum Island. Berlin’s first museum – Altes Museum

Altes Museum presents the special exhibition for the anniversary “200 years of Museum Island” from July 9, 2025. The history of the world-famous Museum Island began on July 9, 1825, when the foundation stone was laid for the museum designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin’s Lustgarten. Just five years later, on August 3, 1830, the Altes Museum was opened as the first public museum in Berlin and Prussia. The building with its monumental columned hall quickly developed into a crowd-puller and an important institution for basic archaeological research to this day.
The special exhibition on the upper floor of the building provides exciting insights into the beginnings of the museum and shows a selection of antiquities that were already on display when it opened in 1830.

At the center of the exhibition is a large-scale model of the museum, which illustrates Schinkel’s architecture, now one of the major works of German classicism. The exhibition sheds light not only on Schinkel’s architectural challenges and innovative solutions, but also on the social climate in which the museum was created. Visitors will get to know exhibition rooms that looked very different when they opened in 1830 and were almost completely destroyed during the Second World War. Only a few …

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Image above: View of the exhibition rooms of the Altes Museum, ca. 1906/07; Berlin State Museums, Central Archive.

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