Tourist map of Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin

For those who will be touring Museumsinsel (Museum Island) in Berlin, here are some informative parts of its map posted on a large guide board at the side of the Altes Museum. There are five museums in the Museumsinsel complex as shown in the map, with their corresponding numbers and an arrow guide for tourists to follow when visiting the museums.

(1) Altes Museum (Old Museum)

Antikensammlung/Agyptisches Museum
Collection of Classical Antiquities/Egyptian Museum

(2) Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery)
Malerei und Skulptur des 19.Jahrhunderts
19th Century Painting and Sculpture

(3) Neues Museum (New Museum), Re-Opening 2009

Agyptisches Museum/ Museum fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte
Egyptian Museum/Museum for Pre- and Early History

(4) Pergamon Museum
Antikensammlung/Vorderasiatisches Museum / Museum fur Islamische Kunst
Collection of Classical Antiquities/Museum of the Ancient Near East/Museum of Islamic Art

(5) Bode Museum formerly Kaiser Friedrich Museum

Skulpturensammlung/Museum fur Byzantinische Kunst/Werke de Gemaldegalerie/Munzkabinett
Sculpture Collection/Museum of Byzantine Art/Works from the Gemaldegalerie/Numismatic Collection

The Neues Museum (3) building is grayed out in the map since it is still undergoing restoration. Click on the thumbnail image below for a larger version of the whole map.

More information about the Museum Island posted at the guide board:

Masterplan Museumsinsel Berlin

Bordered by the River Spree and the Kupfergraben, Berlin’s Museumsinsel is an incomparable ensemble that has developed from the unique history of Germany’s cultural and museum heritage. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1999. Along with Berlin’s other major museums – located in the Kulturforuj, Dahlem, Charlottenburg and Köpenick – Museumsinsel demonstrates how significant the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) are as a universal museum dedicated to human culture from its very beginnings to the present day. The Master Plan for restoring Museumsinsel is already bearing fruit: the Alte Nationalgalerie reopened in all its magnificence in December 2001. The Bode-Museum was opened in October 2006; the Neues Museum is due to open its doors again in 2009. Then the restoration of the Pergamonmuseum and the Altes Museum will go ahead.