Museum Island

The Museum Island is a complex on the northern part of Island in the of , Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in .
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: northern part of Spree Island in the Spree river in central Berlin
  • Address: Berlin
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest

Highlights include Neues Museum and Pergamon Museum.

Museum
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The is a listed building on the Museum Island of . Built from 1843 to 1855 by order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles, it is considered as the major work of Friedrich August Stüler.

Museum
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The is a listed building on the Museum Island in the of , Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The is a listed building on the Museum Island in the of , Germany. The gallery was built from 1862 to 1876 by the order of King Frederick William IV of Prussia according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack in Neoclassical and Renaissance Revival styles.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mitte and Dorotheenstadt.

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, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

Quarter
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Museum Island

Latitude
52.52° or 52° 31′ 12″ north
Longitude
13.39718° or 13° 23′ 50″ east
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Open location code
9F4MG99W+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 330840129
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
7669158
Wiki­data ID
Q151963
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Museum Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة المتاحف”
  • Armenian: “Թանգարանային կղզի”
  • Armenian: “Թանգարանների կղզի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Muzeylər adası”
  • Basque: “Museoen uhartea”
  • Belarusian: “Музейны востраў”
  • Belarusian: “Музэйная выспа”
  • Breton: “Enezenn ar mirdioù”
  • Bulgarian: “Музеен остров”
  • Catalan: “Illa dels Museus”
  • Cebuano: “Museum Island”
  • Chinese: “博物館島”
  • Chinese: “博物馆岛”
  • Chinese: “柏林博物館島”
  • Croatian: “Muzejski otok u Berlinu”
  • Croatian: “Muzejski otok”
  • Czech: “Musejní ostrov”
  • Czech: “Museumsinsel”
  • Czech: “Muzejní ostrov”
  • Czech: “Ostrov museí”
  • Czech: “Ostrov muzeí”
  • Danish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Dutch: “Museumsinsel”
  • Esperanto: “Museumsinsel”
  • Esperanto: “Muzea Insulo de Berlino”
  • Estonian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Estonian: “Muuseumisaar”
  • Finnish: “Museosaari”
  • Finnish: “Museumsinsel”
  • French: “Ile aux Musees”
  • French: “île aux Musées”
  • French: “Île aux Musées”
  • French: “Îles aux musées”
  • French: “Museumsinsel”
  • Galician: “Illa dos Museos”
  • Galician: “Museumsinsel”
  • Georgian: “სამუზეუმო კუნძული”
  • German: “Berliner Museumsinsel”
  • German: “Museumsinsel Berlin”
  • German: “Museumsinsel”
  • Greek: “Νησί των Μουσείων”
  • Hebrew: “אי המוזיאונים”
  • Hebrew: “פישראינזל”
  • Hungarian: “Múzeum-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Island”
  • Indonesian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Italian: “Isola dei musei”
  • Italian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Japanese: “ベルリン国立博物館”
  • Japanese: “ムゼウムスインゼル”
  • Japanese: “博物館島”
  • Korean: “박물관섬”
  • Latvian: “Muzeju sala”
  • Lithuanian: “Muziejų sala”
  • Luxembourgish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Macedonian: “Музејски остров”
  • Macedonian: “Музејски Остров”
  • Maltese: “Gżira tal-Mużewijiet”
  • Maltese: “Museumsinsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Museumsinsel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Museumsøya”
  • Norwegian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Persian: “جزیره موزه”
  • Polish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Muzeów w Berlinie”
  • Polish: “Wyspa Muzeów”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha dos Museus”
  • Portuguese: “Museumsinsel”
  • Portuguese: “Staatliche Museen”
  • Russian: “Музейный остров”
  • Russian: “Музеумсинзель”
  • Russian: “Остров музеев”
  • Serbian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Serbian: “Muzejsko ostrvo”
  • Serbian: “Музејско острво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muzejski otok”
  • Slovenian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Slovenian: “Muzejski otok”
  • Spanish: “Isla de los Museos”
  • Spanish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Spanish: “Staatliche Museen”
  • Swedish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Swedish: “Staatliche Museen i Berlin”
  • Tagalog: “Pulo ng mga Museo”
  • Thai: “เกาะพิพิธภัณฑ์”
  • Thai: “มูเซอุมส์อินเซิล”
  • Turkish: “Museumsinsel”
  • Turkish: “Müzeler Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Музейний острів”
  • Urdu: “عجائب گھر جزیرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Bảo tàng”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Bảo Tàng”
  • Western Frisian: “Museumsinsel”
  • Western Panjabi: “میوزیم جزیرہ، برلن”
  • Western Panjabi: “میوزیم جزیرہ”

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