Museum Island
Museuminsel Literally "Museum Island", this area is best known for the vast Pergamonmuseum.
The Pergamonmuseum houses an extensive collection of ancient Greek, ancient Middle-Eastern and Islamic art and architecture.
Other museums which belong to the Museum Island are:
The Altes Museum with the Egyptian and the antique collection;
The Alte Nationalgalerie with mainly German paintings of the 19th century
The Bodemuseum ( recently reopened on October 2006) with its fantastically presented sculpture collection and Byzantine art.
The Neues Museum is under restoration and will open in 2009, it will harbour the Egyptian collection then.