Germany at a Glance

12 …with Pergamon Museum and Neues Museum The Pergamon Museum was rebuilt between 1910 and 1930. It was conceived as a complex with three wings. Today, it accommodates three separate museums; the Collection of Classical Antiquities, occupying the Architectural Halls and the Sculpture Wing, the Museum of the Ancient Near East and the Museum of Islamic Art. The monumental reconstruction of archaeo- logical building ensembles – such as the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Milet and the Ishtar Gate. The Neues Museum was opened in 1859 to bring relief to the over-popular and over-crowded Altes Museum. It was one of the most ambitious building projects of its time and built in neo-Classical style. After a thorough reconstruction, it had a grand re-opening in October 2009, displaying the Egyptian Museum and parts of the Museum of Pre- and Early History including the magnificent bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. • www.smb.museum TVTower and Alexanderplatz Enjoy the fantastic view from Berlin's highest building: the 365 metres high TV Tower on Alexanderplatz . From 203 and 207 metres you can have a 360° look all over the entire city with the Reichstag , Potsdamer Platz , the Brandenburg Gate, the Olympic Stadium and the Museum Island. Your stay is even more exciting if you take seat in the restauant and enjoy international dishes or traditional Berlin cuisine while it makes a turn about its own axis within one hour. Down on Alexanderplatz – named "Alex" by the Berliners – again, do not miss to visit the Worldtime Clock. Designed during the socialistic redesign of the square in the 1960's, the Worldtime Clock consists of a cylinder with 24 corners. Each of those segments shows one of the world's 24 time-zones and the best known cities of each zone. The top of the clock shows a simple model of the solar system. • www.tv-turm.de 7 8