After years of costly on-off renovations, Berlin's Pergamon Museum closed its doors entirely last October, will reopen partially in 2027 and fully in 2037
After years of on-off renovations the Pergamon Museum closed its doors entirely last October, it will reopen partially in 2027 and not fully until 2037
It’s been like this since 2000 and, by some estimates, we are only halfway through. After recent disasters in the building of new airports, concert halls and train stations, Berlin’s Museum Island may offer the greatest proof yet of the myth of German efficiency. This originated more than 2,000 years ago in the city of Pergamon, now in Turkey, and is an awe-inspiring sight. About 36m high and 33m long, it is topped by friezes showing mythic battles between order-giving gods and chaos-loving giants.
Like other museums on the island, much of the Pergamon museum foundations combine rubble, stabilising wooden stilts and stone supports to compensate for the silty ground and surrounding river water. Visitors look at the ancient Roman Market Gate of Miletus in Berlin's Pergamon Museum. Photograph: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty
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