{"id":74612,"date":"2026-05-04T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74612\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:35:12","slug":"berlins-pergamon-museum-will-reopen-in-mid-2027-as-a-lengthy-restoration-moves-forward-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74612\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin&#8217;s Pergamon Museum will reopen in mid-2027 as a lengthy restoration moves forward | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Berlin&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-berlin-pergamon-museum-liam-gillick-renovation-56cca5b52f0ff073e080d197789df485\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pergamon Museum<\/a>, traditionally one of the German capital&#8217;s top tourist attractions, will reopen next year after the first part of a painstaking restoration effort that has kept its centerpiece out of the public eye for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees many of Berlin&#8217;s museums, announced Monday that the museum will reopen on June 4, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The museum&#8217;s centerpiece is the 2nd-century B.C. Pergamon Altar. Decorated with a marble frieze, it was built between 197 and 156 B.C. in what is now Bergama, Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The Pergamon Museum has been closed altogether since October 2023. The part of the building containing the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dbb77302e8a3447190773ec57b888aef\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pergamon Altar<\/a> has been closed for far longer, since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Some parts will remain closed for work even after next year&#8217;s reopening, notably the wing containing Babylon&#8217;s Ishtar Gate. The museum is slated to reopen fully in 2037.<\/p>\n<p>The museum is being restored as part of a long-term plan to overhaul the neoclassical Museum Island complex, which was built between 1830 and 1930 and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the island were badly damaged during World War II, and cash-strapped communist East Germany never fully restored it. Work on three of the five museums has already been completed and a new entrance building for the complex, the James Simon Gallery, was opened in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Berlin&#8217;s Pergamon Museum, traditionally one of the German capital&#8217;s top tourist attractions, will reopen next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,1972,1162,190,40111,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-74612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-germany-berlin-pergamon-museum-reopening-2027-altar","13":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116517754186663881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}