{"id":10195,"date":"2026-05-04T14:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/10195\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:42:09","slug":"berlins-pergamon-museum-will-reopen-in-mid-2027-as-a-lengthy-restoration-moves-forward-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/10195\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin&#8217;s Pergamon Museum Will Reopen in Mid-2027 as a Lengthy Restoration Moves Forward"},"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>Copyright 2026 The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ap.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>Photos You Should See \u2013 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777905729_344_april-28-pyss-w01.jpg\" alt=\"Dancers rehearse before an audition for the Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall in New York, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. (AP Photo\/Yuki Iwamura)\" class=\"Image__PictureImage-sc-412cjc-1 bBgODV Image-sc-412cjc-2 SlideshowEmbed__Picture-fkpjfn-0 kQDDcT bUlaJL\"\/><\/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":10196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[953,18,8077,926,8078,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-10195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-berlin","10":"tag-collections-entertainment","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-entertainment-news","13":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}