Berlin State Museums

Berlin State Museums

The Berlin State Museums (German "Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin") are a group of museums in Berlin, Germany overseen by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and funded by the German federal government in collaboration with Germany's federal states. The Berlin State Museums comprise seventeen museums in five clusters, as well as several research institutions.

Museums

Mitte

* Museum Island
** Pergamon Museum (Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic art, Museum of the Ancient Near East, Central Archive)
** Bode Museum (Numismatic Collection, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine art)
** Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery)
** Altes Museum (Egyptian Museum, Collection of Classical Antiquities)
** Neues Museum (re-opening in 2009)
* Friedrichswerder Church

Tiergarten/Moabit

*Kulturforum
**Gemäldegalerie (Art Gallery)
**Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of decorative art)
**Kupferstichkabinett (Print room)
**Kunstbibliothek (Art Library)
**Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery)
*Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for contemporary art)

Charlottenburg

*Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum for Pre- and Early History)
*Museum Berggruen for classic modern art
*Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation
*Museum Scharf-Gerstenberg for surrealist art
*Gipsformerei (Replica workshop)


= Dahlem =

*Museumszentrum
**Ethnological Museum (American Archaelogy, Music Ethnology, North American Indians, South Sea, East Asia, Africa, Junior Museum)
**Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Museum of Asian art: Collection of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art; Collection of East Asian Art)
**Museum of European Cultures

Köpenick

*Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick (Museum of decorative art)

Research institutes

*Institute for Museum Research
*Rathgen-Forschungslabor

See also

* List of museums in Berlin

External links

* [http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/ Berlin State Museums website]


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