Berlin: area by area - Museumsinsel

Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
The Berlin Museumsinsel is a unique ensemble of museum buildings, which illustrates the evolution of modern museum design over more than a century. The art museum is a social phenomenon that owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment and its extension to all people to the French Revolution. The Museumsinsel is the most outstanding example of this concept given material form and a symbolic central urban setting.

Nearly seventy percent of the buildings were destroyed in the Second World War and continue to bear the wounds of these damages today. In 1999, the Berlin State-Owned Museums - Prussian Cultural Heritage decided upon a master plan for the Museum Island, which included renovation plans and plans to reunite and reorganize collections that had been divided up after the war, making the Museum Island Europe's largest cultural investment project.