WORLD HERITAGE MUSEUM ISLAND and the NEW HUMBOLDTFORUM.
The famous Museum Island - "Museumsinsel" as it is called in German - in Berlin became part of UNESCO's world heritage in 1999. This is due less to the mentionable collections and more to the history and architecture of the buildings. Having been built between the 1820s and 1930, the individual buildings - in total, there are five: Altes and Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodemuseum, and Pergamonmuseum - uniquely reflect the development of architecture in combination with the institution known as "museum".
Today the ensemble is completed by the "Humboldtforum" in the Berliner Schloss. After suffering massive destruction due to bombings in the final months of WWII, the remaining structures were pulled down on behalf of the communist regime of East Germany in 1950. The former royal palace was partially reconstructed - the baroque facades - between 2013 and 2020. The royal collections often were the basis of the collections presented in the museums in the Humboldtformum, making them the ideal location to commence our exciting tour.