{"id":80997,"date":"2026-05-12T21:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80997\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T21:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T21:04:13","slug":"berlins-pergamon-museum-will-reopen-in-mid-2027-after-restoration-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/80997\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin’s Pergamon Museum will reopen in mid-2027 after restoration"},"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

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FILE \u2013 In this June, 8, 2004 file photo the world famous Pergamon Altar is pictured during the \u201cPraemium Imperiale\u201d celebration hosted by the Japanese organization \u201cNobel Prize for the Arts\u201d, in the Berlin Pergamon museum. (AP Photo\/Fritz Reiss, File)\n<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

FILE \u2013 People wait in line in front of the Pergamon museum to see the exhibit \u201cBabylon. Myth and Truth\u201d in Berlin, Aug. 17, 2008. (AP Photo\/Franka Bruns, File)\n<\/p>\n

\"Journalists<\/p>\n

FILE \u2013 Journalists look at the Great Altar of Pergamon, during a press tour of the renovation construction site of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany, Dec. 4, 2025. (AP Photo\/Markus Schreiber, File)\n<\/p>\n

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FILE \u2013 In this June, 8, 2004 file photo the world famous Pergamon Altar is pictured during the \u201cPraemium Imperiale\u201d celebration hosted by the Japanese organization \u201cNobel Prize for the Arts\u201d, in the Berlin Pergamon museum. (AP Photo\/Fritz Reiss, File)\n<\/p>\n

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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":80998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,42918,190,40733,42917],"class_list":{"0":"post-80997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-berlin-museums","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-pergamon-museum","12":"tag-pergamon-museum-restoration"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116563638102517012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80997","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=80997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}