Pergamon Museum

Please note: since the 23rd of October 2023, due to renovation work, the Pergamon Museum is closed for several years. 

With the Berlin WelcomeCard Museum Island as well as the Berlin WelcomeCard all inclusive you will instead receive free admission to the exhibition Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama.

Since 23 October 2023, the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island has been completely closed to visitors. This is necessary in order to continue the basic renovation as planned within the framework of the "Museum Island Master Plan". It is planned that the north wing and the central section with the Museum of Islamic Art and the Pergamon Altar will reopen in spring 2027.

The Pergamon Museum was built on Museum Island between 1910 to 1930 to plans by Alfred Messels executed by Ludwig Hoffmann to hold the overflow from the newly opened Bode Museum.

In the Second World War, the museum suffered heavy damage. Many of the portable exhibits had been secured away and the monumental pieces had been partially bricked up. The museum reopened in 1958 and was renamed after one of its star attractions, the Pergamon Altar.

The museum contains much more, however, it its three Neo-Classical wings. It houses the state collection of Antiquities, the Asia Minor Museum, and the Museum of Islamic Art. It has gained a worldwide reputation for its imposing reconstructions of archaeological building ensembles. These include the Pergamon altar, the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way from Babylon, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Mshatta façade.