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Prehistory and early history

Permanent exhibition
Neues Museum

The Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte presents its expansive collection together with objects from the Antikensammlung on three floors of the Neues Museum.

Visitors are greeted on the ground floor by the room entitled "Odin, Urns, Looted Art", which presents the 180 year old history of the museum, with preserved wall paintings depicting scenes from Nordic mythology. The following room is dedicated to Heinrich Schliemann, who bequeathed his collection of Trojan antiquities to the museum "for their eternal preservation". The room beyond that reveals how various influences in the art and culture of Cyprus conflated in a unique way on the Island.

The first first floor is considered to be the museum’s bel étage. The “Treasures from the Rhine” – the Xanten Boy and the “Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz” are showcased here, the latter being one of the largest metals hoards north of the Alps from the Roman period.” From here, the way leads on to the “Roman Provinces”. From there, the visitor has access to the "Pantheon" - Chipperfield's new South Dome Room, in which two colossal statues of divinities from the 2nd century AD originating from the Egyptian city of Lycopolis await visitors. The next room, "Rome's Northern Neighbours" is dedicated to the tensions between Rome and the Germanic peoples, while "Migration Period and Middle Ages" provides an insight into the time from the Migration Period to the Carolingian Renaissance.


A permanent exhibition of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and the Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Event at Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Valerie Schmidt
Herrschaft, Macht und Religion im Mittelalter


Ausstellungsgespräch | 60 Minuten | 30 Euro

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Leo Leowald
Von gestern und übermorgen. Geschichte der Museumsinsel


Projekttag | 240 Minuten | 120 Euro

The original object entries from the “Treasure of Priamos” in the collection of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Christof Hannemann
View of the Neues Museum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Querschnitt durch das Spektrum des Schatzfundes von Neupotz, 2. Hälfte 3. Jh. n. Chr.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Klein
Swords and lance, Bronze. 9.-8. Century BC, Stölln
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Klaus Göken

Permanent exhibition

A cross-section sample of the finds from the Treasure of Neupotz, 2nd half of the 3rd century AD
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Klein

Permanent exhibition

James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße
10178 Berlin

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All groups meet at the information desk in the lower foyer in James-Simon-Galerie.

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U-Bahn: Museumsinsel (U5)
S-Bahn: Friedrichstraße, Hackescher Markt
Tram: Am Kupfergraben, Hackescher Markt
Bus: Staatsoper, Lustgarten, Friedrichstraße

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