Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Museum & Collections

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**Objektwege. Von der Kunstkammer ins Museum** © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / DDBstudio

Online Exhibition "Objects on the move“

**The Egyptian Court of the Neues Museums** © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Bernd Weingart

Objects and Stories from the Neues Museum

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Films on the Collections at the Neues Museum

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House altar featuring Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters under the solar Aten, Egypt, Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC, ref. no. ÄM 14145, donated by James Simon — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Looked At! House altar featuring Akhenaten, Nefertiti and three of their daughters under the solar Aten

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The fish from Vettersfelde, shield decoration, Scythian, Vettersfelde, today Witaszkowo, Poland, ca. 500 BC — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius; CC NC-BY-SA

Looked At! Fish from Vettersfelde

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Upper part of a colossal statue of Tutankhamun or Ay, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

A Little Cultural History of Ancient Egypt: Disposable Goods

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Online Publication

Telephus Frieze entry – Teuthras gives Auge to Telephus as his wife, part of the small frieze (“Telephus Frieze”) of the Pergamon Altar, ca. 170 BC, ident. no. T.I. 36, from the inventory of the Telephus Frieze — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung

Acquisition and Accession Logs of the Antikensammlung

Floor Plan

Floor Plan of the Neues Museum (PDF, 372 KB)

Online Database

Explore the collection of the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung online

Online Database

Portraits of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra VII (ca. 50–40 BC) and of the Roman general and politician Gaius Julius Caesar (early 1st c. AD) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Explore the collection of the Antikensammlung online

Online Database

The Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Collections Online — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Explore the collection of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte online

Journal

Papyrus fragment originating from the Nile island of Elephantine, held between sheets of glass in the storerooms of the Archäologisches Zentrum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

Studies on Elephantine - New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin

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