The Pergamon, on Museum Island, an Island made of museums in the centre of Berlin, is really three museums in one:  the Collection of Classical Antiquities (also on display in the Old Museum),  the Museum of the Ancient Near East, and the Museum of Islamic Art. It's world famous for its archaeological holdings.

Built by Ludwig Hoffmann between 1909 and 1930, the Pergamon Museum was adapted from the plans drawn up by Alfred Messel. Messel died before the beginning of the construction work but the Pergamon Museum lives on in his memory as one of the most recent museums to be built on Museum Island . Renowned for its monumental reconstructions, it is divided into three separate departments. 

Image: "Pergamonmuseum Front" by © Raimond Spekking

The Divento.com don't miss list: The Pergamon Altar, Market Gate of Miletus, The Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way, Babylon, The Mshatta Facade, The Meissner fragment from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Address

Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin

Opening times

Monday - Sunday: 10:00-18:00; Thursday: 10:00-20:00