Synopses & Reviews
Home to five museums, including the Old and New Museums, the Old National Gallery, the Bode Museum, and the Pergamon Museum, Berlin’s Museum Island was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999 and represents nearly two hundred years of museum history. In this new book, renowned experts on Museum Island take readers on a fascinating tour of the history and architecture of the museums located there, as well as their collections. The Essays included here focus on features and artworks of particular interest and are richly illustrated with both current and historical photographs. Broadening the scope, the book also includes discussions of the surrounding urban development, conservation efforts associated with the museums, and the ongoing redesign of Museum Island, which includes plans for expansion and the Archaeological Promenade. Museum Island is notable in that it illustrates the evolution of modern museum design throughout the twentieth century. For those interested in art, architecture, or conservation—or those hoping to visit—this book offers a comprehensive guide to the five museums and their masterpieces.
About the Author
The National Museums in Berlin constitute a leading group of cultural institutions dedicated to the preservation, research, and exhibition of art and archaeology.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Henning Schulte-Noelle
Preface
Michael Eissenhauer and Hermann Parzinger
Essays
The Museum Island en Route to the 21st Century—Prospects for a Once-in-a-Century Project
Michael Eissenhauer and Christina Haak
The Great and the Whole—the Master Plan
Jürgen Tietz
World Heritage and its Environment—a Balance Sheet of Monuments
Jörg Haspel
The Berlin Museum Island from the Perspective of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Michael Petzet
The Recovery of Spree-Athens—Berlin’s Museum Island from the Perspective of International Architecutre
Dieter Bartetzko
The Museum Island—an Architectural-Historical Overview
Adrian von Buttlar
Berlin’s Museum Island—a German Educational Landscape
Peter-Klaus Schuster
Buildings
Altes Museum
Rolf H. Johannsen
Neues Museum
Elke Blauert
Alte Nationalgalerie
Bernhard Maaz
Bode-Museum
Alexander Markschies
Pergamonmuseum
Olaf Matthes
The Colonnades, Colonnade Garden and Bridges
Norbert Heuler, Klaus-Henning von Krosigk, and Klaus Lingenauber
Collections and Institutions
Antikensammlung
Andreas Scholl
Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
Friederike Seyfried
Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Matthias Wemhoff
Nationalgalerie—Alte Nationalgalerie Collection
Udo Kittelmann and Angelika Wesenberg
Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst
Julien Chapuis and Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann
Münzkabinett
Bernd Kluge and Bernhard Weisser
Museum für Islamische Kunst
Stefan Weber
Vorderasiatisches Museum
Beate Salje
Arbeitsstelle für Provenienzrecherche/-forschung
Uwe Hartmann
Zentralarchiv
Jörn Grabowski
Prospects
Archäologisches Zentrum
Astrid Marlow and Friederike Seyfried
The New Reception Building on the Museum Island—the James-Simon-Galerie
Kaye Geipel
The Archäologische Promenade—Creating Connection
Friederike Seyfried, Andreas Scholl, and Matthias Wemhoff
The Bode-Museum in the 21st Century
Julien Chapuis and Michael Eissenhauer
Rethinking Berlin’s Centre from the Perspective of Culture—the Humboldt-Forum in the Berliner Schloss
Hermann Parzinger
The Berliner Schloss Turned into the Humboldt-Forum—the Perspective of the Client
Manfred Rettig
List of Authors
Selected Bibliography
Photographic Credits
Imprint