The Museum of Prehistory and Early History displays its extensive collection alongside objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities across three floors of the Neues Museum.
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Armring mit Tierkopfenden, Marchélepot, Frankreich, um 500 n. Chr.
Den Berliner Goldhut zieren verschiedene Kreisornamente, die als lunisolarer, d.h. auf Sonne und Mond basierenden Kalender verstanden werden können. Sie stehen für die Verbindung von Kult, Wissen und auch materiellem Reichtum.
On the ground floor, the “Odin, Urns, Looted Art” hall, which presents the museum’s 180-year history, welcomes visitors with preserved murals depicting Norse mythology. The next hall is dedicated to Heinrich Schliemann, who donated his collection of Trojan antiquities to the museum “for eternal preservation.” In the following hall, it becomes clear how various influences uniquely converged in the art and culture of Cyprus.
On the first floor, the museum’s bel étage, visitors are first greeted by the “Treasures from the Rhine”—the Xanten Boy and the “Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz,” one of the largest metal hoards from the Roman era north of the Alps—before the path continues to “Rome’s Provinces.” From there, visitors enter the “Pantheon”—Chipperfield’s new south dome room—where two colossal statues of gods from the 2nd century AD, originating from Lykonpolis in Egypt, await them.
The adjacent room, “Rome’s Neighbors in the North,” explores the tensions between Rome and the Germanic peoples. The hall “Migration Period and the Middle Ages” presents the era from the Migration Period through the Carolingian Renaissance.
A permanent exhibition of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the State Museums in Berlin.
