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ARCHITECTURE INK - www.architectureink.com - "Schinkel's Altes Museum, Monumentality, and the Memorial" - C.Voogt As museums were still largely in political and religious hands at this time, thinkers and citizens alike had access to art primarily through such books, but the information was available nonetheless and thus acted as a catalyst to the development of new ideas about the role of art in society. The museum’s relationship with the state only went so far as the façade, significantly, in that it bore an inscription acknowledging the king’s leading cultural role, yet “the museum was in no sense an extension of the court nor merely an expression of royal power. Schinkel’s museum attempts to suggest how art is connected to the world socially, culturally, and morally, and seeks to resolve the apparent dichotomy between the museum’s autonomy within the context of the “three pillars of Prussian society,” as symbolized by the palace, arsenal, and cathedral. www.architectureink.com /2002-06/voogt/voogt.htm   (3447 words)

BerlinLIVE | Altes Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Pergamon Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode Museum, and the Altes Museum stand on this piece of land between the Spree and Kupfergraben Rivers. The museum was intended as a statement on the significance of art; opposite the royal palace, with a broad, monumental facade, it asserts art's centrality to society. The Altes Museum originally housed ancient art on the ground level, and a progression of Western paintings on the upper level. www.learn.columbia.edu /berlin/places/altesmuseum.html   (338 words)

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: The Building This sort of museum interior has since become accepted--in America certainly, if not internationally to the same extent--as the standard type, conforming to basic modern theories of open planning and flowing space, as also to what is easiest to produce with current building methods. The exhibition of 1954, from whose catalogue I quoted at the beginning of this Foreword, was devoted to the early museums of the period 1770-1850, from the Museo Pio-Clementino at the Vatican to the Neuere Pinakothek in Munich. From the Altes Museum also comes the happy idea of retaining a monumental one-storyed expression for the exterior at the Sheldon, as already in Utica, yet permitting at the Sheldon a clear view of the staircase and the bridge at second-story gallery level between the pillars--if that is the word for them--that phrase the front. www.sheldonartgallery.org /building/architect_essay.html   (2525 words)

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin - World Heritage Site - Pictures, info and travel reports The Bode Museum and the Neues Museum are closed at the moment. The five museums are Bodemuseum, Pergamonmuseum, Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Altes Nationalgalerie. Until 2015 the whole museum island is under a grand project of renovation and refurbishment with construction of underground complex that will link five museums together, so you have to check museum information carefully before visit as the museums can be closed unexpectedly. www.worldheritagesite.org /sites/museuminsel.html   (1200 words)

agglutinations.com: 7 Factorial: An Experiment in Writing and Research (Part II) The Altes Museum (1823) in Berlin is an emblematic example of Europe's new political equilibrium that followed the Congress of Vienna of 1815 (the Restoration of the Monarchies previously defeated by Napoleon). Thus, the relationship between painting and museum was reverse: it was not the museum that contained the paintings, but the paintings that were part of the decoration of the building. Neurath's new museum should be reproduced in a series: but the result would not be comparable to an automobile (as he said), but rather to a church. agglutinations.com /archives/000038.html   (6176 words)

Museum Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Museum Island (or, in German, Museumsinsel) in Berlin, Germany, is the name of the northern half of the Spreeinsel, an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city. The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that are now occupying all of the island's northern half (originally a residential area dedicated to "art and science" by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1841). The Old Museum (Altes Museum) is the oldest of the museums, finished in 1830 according to the plans by Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Museum_Island   (651 words)

Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany (Karl Friedrich Schinkel) - Architecture of Germany - German Architecture Guides from ... A monumental collonade of Ionic columns creates the facade of this prominent museum that was built opposite the king's palace. This created a fine public garden with the palace, the cathedral and the museum on three sides and bounded by the river on the fourth. So originally, the visitor to the museum would have their visual senses assaulted by art and architecture even before they entered the building. germany.archiseek.com /brandenburg/berlin/altes_museum.html   (251 words)

Old Museum, Berlin The Old Museum, situated on the Museumsinsel (Museum Island), is Berlin's oldest museum and the third oldest in Germany after the Fridericianum in Kassel (1779) and the Glyptothek in Munich (1816-30). Built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1824-30 as a "Royal Museum," it is in the style of a Greek temple, with a portico of eighteen Ionic columns. On the left, Albert Wolff's "Youth" on horseback is slaying a lion, and on the right is the "Amazon on horseback fighting a tiger" by August Kiss. www.planetware.com /berlin/old-museum-d-bn-bom.htm   (239 words)

Penn Museum: Masterplanning for the 21st Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Neues Museum is a large scale project of approximately 200,000 sq.ft., and the scope of the project includes masterplanning, restoration and the integration of new interventions into the existing fabric of the building. In 1998 David Chipperfield Architects was appointed as lead masterplanner for the Museum Island in Berlin and architect for the New Entrance Building to the Island. The masterplan links the five museums of the Island - the Altes Museum, Neues Museum, National Gallery, Pergamon Museum and Bode Museum, combining the new concept for the presentation of the Archaeological Collections with contemporary museum requirements while preserving the ’campus’ quality of this collection of architectural monuments. www.museum.upenn.edu /new/about/masterplan/architects.shtml   (268 words)

Altes Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs brannte das Alte Museum nieder, und es wurde 1966 wieder aufgebaut. This museum, designed by Karl Friedrich von Schinkel, was built between 1823 and 1830 on the Lustgarten in Berlin. During the Second World War the Alte Museum (old museum) burned down, and it was rebuilt in 1966. www.courses.psu.edu /nuc_e/nuc_e405_g9c/berlin/museen/altesmuseum.html   (84 words)

BerlinLIVE | Pergamon Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) The Pergamon Museum is named for (and its architecture inspired by) its main attraction, the second century BC Pergamon Altar, which draws over 850,000 visitors each year. From the fragmented ruins of the original, the museum has built a coherent structure, and surrounded it with amazing examples of classical statuary. The old and new are easily distinguishable from one another; although this type of delineation can be off-putting, the pure size and architectural regularity of the altar overwhelm any potential distraction. www.learn.columbia.edu /berlin/places/pergamon.html   (314 words)

Altes Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Spree river from which the island protrudes was actually reconfigured by the architect, in order to allow enough ground space for the museum to be built. After restorations in 1966 during which the dome was rebuilt to form a half ellipse, it re-opened as a museum displaying ancient Greek and Roman artefacts. Combined with the new facades of the Berliner Dom and the Berliner Stadtschloss Berlin City Palace, the Altes Museum became one of the heads of authority: God, King and Art. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altes_Museum   (349 words)

Master Plan Museumsinsel Berlin 2015 - Altes Museum: View 2015 This first museum building in Berlin initially brought together a collection of classical antiquities, a picture gallery and a numismatic collection; later it was to be devoted exclusively to classical antiquity. Near the end of World War II the Altes Museum caught fire and almost burned to the ground. After restoration, from 1966 onward it served as a museum of contemporary art of the DDR (East Germany) and was used for special exhibitions. www.museumsinsel-berlin.de /index.php?lang=en&page=2_2_2_3   (228 words)

Great Museums - Berlin, Vienna & Turin Tour A full day will be spent in East Berlin visiting the Pergamon Museum, which houses antiquities from both the ancient Orient and the Greek and Roman worlds, and the Altes Museum, which now exhibits the antiquities collection formerly in the Charlottenburg and part of the material from the Pergamon Museum. Among its treasures are the 18th-dynasty sculpture of Thutmosis III, the gold of Nagyszentmiklos and the Gemma Augustea cameo. Our last morning of museum touring begins at the Egyptian Museum, which houses one of the richest Egyptian collections in Europe, including the Rock Temple of Thutmosis III originally from Ellessya south of Aswan, and ends at the Galleria Sabauda, with its two floors of outstanding paintings. archaeologicaltrs.com /eu_gm_berlin.html   (705 words)

Tourist Information - VLDB 2003 It is on display in two locations: the Pergamon Museum and the main floor of the Altes Museum. The museum is situated in the south wing of the Pergamon Museum. The Museum of Western Asiatic Antiquities ranks alongside the Louvre and the British Museum as one of the world's leading museums of ancient oriental treasures. www.vldb.org /conf/2003/homepage/smb_pergamon.html   (907 words)

Monuments in Berlin / Senate Department of Urban Development in Berlin The Altes Museum in the Lustgarten "Leisure Garden" emerged as the first structure of the extensive museum complex built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel from 1824-30 as an urban counterbalance to the Berliner Castle. The rotunda adjacent on the interior, an adaptation of the Roman Pantheon painted according to Schinkel's specifications and with Greek statues positioned between the pillars, was intended as a solemn space to set the mood for the museum visit. The Altes Museum, which had been partly destroyed during the war, was restored until 1966. www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/weltkulturerbe/altes_museum.shtml   (320 words)

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museum Quarters The Altes Museum, built between 1823 and 1830 after the design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, is one of the most important works in the architecture of Classicism. The monumental order of the 18 fluted ionic columns, the wide stretch of the atrium, the rotunda - an explicit reference to the pantheon in Rome - and finally the grand staircase are all architectural elements which, up to this point, were reserved for stately buildings. The Egyptian Museum has, since August 2005, shown its collection on the upper floor where it will remain until it moves to the Neues Museum in 2009. www.smb.spk-berlin.de /smb/standorte/index.php?lang=en&p=2&objID=24&n=1&r=1   (225 words)

Berlin Museum Island Photo Gallery Berlin's Museum Island lies between the River Spree and Kupfergraben. Development of the building complex began with the Altes Museum which was designed by Schinkel. When the Pergamon Museum opened in 1930, it marked the completion of the Museum Island complex. www.globalphotos.org /berlin-museum.htm   (141 words)

Master Plan Museumsinsel Berlin 2015 - Altes Museum: 1989 - 2015 When the Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunited, the Altes Museum (Old Museum) was very well received, due to significant special exhibitions, in the area which was once again becoming the centre of Berlin. In 2005 the Egyptian Museum followed to occupy the upper floor of the Altes Museum with a new permanent exhibition centred around the bust of Nefertiti before it finally moves into the Neues Museum in 2009. According to the general renovations foreseen by the plans of Hilmer and Sattler und Albrecht (Munich / Berlin), the Altes Museum will again be completely available to the Collection of Classical Antiquities and connected spatially and thematically with the other museums of the Museumsinsel via the Archaeological Promenade. www.museumsinsel-berlin.de /index.php?lang=en&page=2_2_1   (206 words)

Museumsinsel (Museum Island)- Berlin, Germany - VirtualTourist.com The main museum here is the Pergamon Museum, which is one of the most important museums of ancient art and architecture in the world. The Museums of Berlin's Museuminsel Altes Museum (The Old Museum) Neues Museum (The New Museum) Alte Nationalgalerie (The Old National Galerie) Das Pergamon Museum (The Pergamon Museum) The Pergamon was very recommended by the guide. All museums are now undergoing a vast modernisation programme that is due to be finished by 2010 when this complex will get some new links between the different buildings. www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Things_To_Do-Berlin-Museumsinsel_Museum_Island-BR-1.html   (929 words)

Altes Museum - Karl Friedrich Schinkel - Great Buildings Online A major landmark in the develoment of museum typologies. "The facade unity achieved in the Schinkel museum derives from the expression of the vertical elements as a freestanding colonnade set into a tight frame provided by end walls, base, and roof. Termination of the facade by walls instead of columns and the use of the classical device of narrowing the end spacing allow the colonnade to be perceived as an entity, like seeing the forest before the trees. www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Altes_Museum.html   (352 words)

The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News The new Masterpieces from World Museums at the Hermitage exhibition shows the canvas Love Victorious of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610) from the Painting Gallery of the Berlin State Museums, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It is highly symbolic that in Berlin the exhibition was held in Altes Museum where the gallery opened in 1830 and in Rome, in the Giustiniani Palace which now belongs to the Italian Republic's Senate. In the 19th century it housed the Russian Embassy in the Vatican. www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_4_79.html   (286 words)

Berlin | l'ile des musees - Museumsinsel | Baron & Baron Derrière l’Altes Museum se trouve le Neue Museum, qui comme son nom l’indique, fut construit après le premier par Friedrich August Stüler. En face du Neue Museum se trouve une espèce de temple corinthien qui se voulait, à sa construction, être le temple de la peinture allemande. La Alte Nationalgalerie (ancienne galerie nationale) vient de rouvrir ses portes après une longue période de restauration. www.baronbaron.com /allemagne/museuminsel.html   (1149 words)

ArtMatters.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) On this kind of night, the doors of all museums are usually flung open the whole night to enable lovers of culture to sample the treasures preserved in these houses. For in five houses on the Museum Island, otherwise known as Museuminsel in German, one encounters priceless art, cultural artifacts and other treasures of the ancient world: Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome. Situated symbolically on the picturesque northern part of the Spree River Island where Berlin was founded 769 years ago and that is now on the eastern end of Unter den Linden in the Berlin district of Mitte, are the legendary Pergamon Museum, the Altes Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Neues Museum and the Bode Museum. www.artmatters.info /museums.htm   (820 words)

Gasthaus Altes Museum * Chronik "Altes Museum" erinnert daran, dass der Lehrer und Heimatforscher Paul Schulze hier das erste Coswiger Heimatmuseum einrichtete und 1957 eröffnen konnte. Fortan zerfiel das alte Haus mit den zugemauerten Fenstern und tiefen Rissen in den Wänden weiter, bis ein junger Mann namens Christian Wentzel die Idee der Sanierung und Nutzung als Gaststätte hatte und diese auch umsetzte. Ein Jahr später konnte auf das neue "Alte Museum" mit dem Gastwirt Peter Jäppel angestoßen werden, seit August 2004 wird das "Gasthaus Altes Museum" von Peggy Andrä-Rehbein bewirtschaftet... www.gasthaus-altes-museum.de /chronik.htm   (288 words)

Altes Museum - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre Altes Museum, edificio del clasicismo diseñado por el arquitecto alemán Friedrich Schinkel. De 2005 hasta la finalización prevista para 2009 se ubica allí la exposición del "Ägyptische Museum" (museo egiptológico). En sus inmediaciones se encuentran hoy el "Neues Museum" (museo nuevo) y el museo de Pérgamon ("Pergamonmuseum") es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altes_Museum   (199 words)

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