Sights at Berlin

 

Berlin is the German capital and the country's largest metropolis. After world war 2nd, Berlin has reorganized itself as Europe 's brightest centers of culture. It has beautiful landscape with pretty waterways, giant lakes and long and wide parks. Open lands adds to the beauty of Berlin . Berlin is packed with endless sights. Amazing museums, bold new architecture and stately places make up the sights. There exists arts of all kinds and there are giant operas which are wonderful place to visit and have fun. There are several galleries of art which are contemporary and at the same time they can be rented to keep one's own paintings and pieces of arts. Berlin is home to one hundred and fifty three museums.

 

The national museum in Berlin represents the result of centuries of collecting. Today the national museums in Berlin consist of sixteen museums, each with its own area of competence.

 

Altes Museum : Altes Museum is located on Berlin 's Museum island, and houses two important exhibitions, the collection of antiques and the most important work from the Old National Gallery. It contains art and sculpture with highlights including Greek stone and bronze sculptures, vases, gold and silverware.

 

Neues Museum : The Neues Museum is located at the north of the Altes Museum and is the second museum on the Museum Island . There were the collections of plaster casts, the Egyptian museum, the early historic collection, the ethnographic collection and the collection of engravings. It is an important monument in the history of construction and technology.

 

Pergamon Museum : the Peragamon is Berlin 's prime museum and more than 8, 50,000people visit the museum each year, making it the most popular of the state museum. It is just one of the impressive exhibits reconstructed from the archaeological collection of the Purssian court. In addition to the classical collection, it contains the collection of the Museum of Islamic Art and the Museum of Ancient Near Eastern Art .

 

Bode Museum: It is the home for a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, coins and medals. The collection is a unique archive for historical research and its medal collection makes it an important art exhibition. It is a part of Museum Island .

Gemaldegalerie: The Gemaldegalerie possesses one of the world's finest collections of European art from the 13 th to 18 th century. It is situated at the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz and has about 7,000 square meters of exhibition space. Two of the major sections are formed by Italian paintings and Netherlandish paintings. The main gallery contains one thousand master pieces.

 

New Nationalgalerie : It is the “light temple of glass” and is indeed an eye catching place which holds the eye of the beholder.

 

Charlottenburg Palace : It is a beautiful palace of Berlin . It required over hundred years to be completed and holds numerous cultural assets.

 

Berlin 's museums and galleries offer everything collection from the ancient to the ultra modern collections and are very exciting and diverse.