Old Museum
The Altes Museum—“Old Museum”—is one of the key buildings that made public art collecting possible in Berlin, built at the moment when Prussia’s ruling class began to treat culture as something citizens should access. It was planned for King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, under designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and construction ran from 1825 to 1830, placing its start in 1830 in the earliest records. Neoclassical in style, the museum was set into a deliberate architectural ensemble around the Berliner Lustgarten: the Berlin Cathedral lies to the east, the Berlin Palace to the south, and the Zeughaus to the west. Today it still fulfills a museum purpose, housing the Antikensammlung and parts of the Münzkabinett. In 1999, the Museum Island complex—including this building—was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognized for how the island demonstrates the development of the museum as both a social and architectural phenomenon.
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