New Museum
In the Neues Museum—the “New Museum” on Berlin’s Museum Island—a large part of Prussia’s museum age was engineered into stone. The building was commissioned by King Frederick William IV and built from 1843 to 1855, with Friedrich August Stüler as the major designer. It was conceived as the second Museum Island museum, planned to house collections that the Altes Museum could not accommodate, including ancient Egyptian artifacts and early historical material. What makes the Neues Museum especially significant goes beyond its collections: it was the first monumental Prussian building to apply industrial-era construction techniques consistently, using multiple iron constructions, and a steam engine—the first time such a machine was used in Berlin construction—to help ram pilings into the building ground. …
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