Pergamon Museum

Why go

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin say the Pergamonmuseum was built between 1910 and 1930 to designs by Alfred Messel, executed by Ludwig Hoffmann, and that it is known for its reconstructions of archaeological monuments: the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon with the Processional Way, and the Mshatta Facade. The museum's visit page, read on 9 October 2026, says the building has been under renovation since 2013 and completely closed since 2023, and that a large part, the North Wing and the central building with the Pergamon Altar and the new presentation of the Museum für Islamische Kunst, will reopen on 4 June 2027. Its profile page says the southern central building and the South Wing, which hold the Market Gate of Miletus, the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way, will stay closed for renovation until approximately 2037. The visit page says individual tickets are expected to go on sale from December 2026 and points visitors meanwhile to the separate exhibition building 'Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama' near Museum Island. This record is the museum and its building, not Museum Island as a whole and not the Panorama building.