Museum Island
The Museumsinsel—Museum Island—was once the northern part of Spree Island in Berlin’s historic centre, formed around a tightly planned museum landscape on the river. Built from 1830 to 1930 on orders of the Prussian Kings, it drew on the work of five architects and became one of Europe’s best-known museum settings. In 1999, UNESCO added the complex to the World Heritage List, citing its testimony to how museum architecture and museum culture developed through the 19th and 20th centuries. The ensemble included the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum and the Pergamon Museum, with the Berlin Cathedral also lying on the island north of Karl Liebknecht Boulevard, beside the Lustgarten. To the south, the reconstructed Berlin Palace later reopened as the Humboldt Forum in 2020, extending the museum storyline beyond the original island plan. …
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