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Pergamon Museum Berlin: Reopening in 2027 and Visitor Guide

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Ishtar Gate in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

The Pergamon Museum, with its Greek altar temple from antiquity, the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, and Islamic art, is traditionally the most popular museum in Berlin. Re-opening 2027: The Pergamon Museum is currently closed, but will partly reopen on 4 June 2027, with the Pergamon Altar again on display. The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island … Read more

Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for 19th-Century Sculptures

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Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for a free exhibition of the 19th-century German sculptures of the Alte Nationalgalerie.

Visit the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin for an exhibition of the 19th-century German sculptures of the Alte Nationalgalerie. The brick Neo-Gothic Friedrichswerdersche Kirche in Berlin provides a spectacular setting for the “Ideal and Form” permanent exhibition of 19th-century sculptures by artists associated with the Berliner Bildhauerschule (Berlin school of sculptors). Around 50 works are on … Read more

See Fra Angelico Art in the San Marco Museum in Florence

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Detail from Tabernacle of the Linaioli in the San Marco Museum in Florence

Many of the best early Renaissance paintings and altarpieces by Fra Angelico are exhibited in the San Marco Museum in Florence. The pilgrims’ hospice of the former convent of San Marco in Florence has the world’s largest collection of altarpieces and paintings by Fra Angelico (c. 1395-1455). Famous altarpieces on display include the Deposition from … Read more