By naming the new building after James Simon, Berlin pays tribute to one of its most important patrons
MUSEUM ISLAND holds great treasures. Eight collections explore the development of European culture from antiquity to the 19th century; there are galleries devoted to Byzantine art as well as artefacts from the Ancient Near East and objects from Muslim societies. Nestled between the Spree River and the Kupfergraben in the heart of Berlin, the five museums together attract more than 3m visitors a year.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation eventually recognised that there was a problem and in 1998 it established a Museum Island Planning Group; a “master plan” for the renovation of the entire district was adopted a year later. It included the refurbishment of the four existing museums as well as the reconstruction of the fifth, the Neues Museum, which was partly destroyed in the second world war.
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