{"id":74779,"date":"2026-05-05T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74779\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:14:15","slug":"berlins-pergamon-museum-will-reopen-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/74779\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin’s Pergamon Museum will reopen next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Berlin\u2019s Pergamon Museum<\/a>, traditionally one of the German capital\u2019s 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

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which oversees many of Berlin\u2019s museums, announced Monday that the museum will reopen on June 4, 2027. <\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s 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

The Pergamon Museum has been closed altogether since October 2023. The part of the building containing the Pergamon Altar<\/a> has been closed for far longer, since 2014.<\/p>\n

Some parts will remain closed for work even after next year\u2019s reopening, notably the wing containing Babylon\u2019s Ishtar Gate. The museum is slated to reopen fully in 2037.<\/p>\n

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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Berlin\u2019s Pergamon Museum, traditionally one of the German capital\u2019s top tourist attractions, will reopen next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[10187,112,13679,1972,1162,190,1161],"class_list":{"0":"post-74779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-east-germany","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116519086684531985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779","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=74779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}