Museum Island: Egyptian Museum of Berlin

The Egyptian Museum arose in the XVIII century from private collections of art of Prussian kings. Alexander von Humboldt recommended that a single collection fund be established to store all antiquities, the first of which occurred in Berlin in 1828. After World War II, during which the museum was badly damaged, it was divided between East and West Berlin and reunited only after the reunification of Germany.

The Egyptian Museum owns one of the most important collections of ancient Egyptian art in the world.

Thanks to them, mainly dating from the time of King Akhenaten - around 1340 BC, the museum achieved world fame. Famous works such as the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tia and the famous Berlin Green Head also belong to the museum’s collection. The impressively rich fund of the Egyptian Museum includes masterpieces belonging to different eras of Ancient Egypt: statues, reliefs, as well as minor works of architecture from different periods of ancient Egypt: from 4000 BC to the Roman period.