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Located on Museum Island,
Berlin, the museum was opened in 1859. Designed by Friedrich August Stuler, it was one of the most ambitious building projects of its time due to its use of new industrial construction technologies such as the steam engine. Built in the neo-Classical style, the Neues museum suffered severe damage and partially destroyed in the Second World War in a series of massive bomb blasts during the bombing of Berlin. And it was closed in 1939.
The building was left abandoned for decades, and restoration was only decided upon in 1985. The British architect David Chipperfield was commissioned to reconstruct the museum building in 1997. The aim was to restore the building to its original glory. The Neues museum has been listed as a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site since 1999. The museum officially reopened in October 2009 and received a 2010 RIBA European Award for its architecture.
The museum now unites three of the National Museums in Berlin’s major collections under one roof. Exhibits include the Egyptian and Prehistory and Early History collections, as it did before the war. The most prominent feature of the exhibit, the bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, described as “the world’s most beautiful woman”. Among these were collections of plaster casts, ancient Egyptian artifacts, the prehistoric and early historic collections, the ethnographic collection, and the collection of etchings and engravings.
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