The Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island is known for monumental reconstructions of ancient architecture. It was built to a design by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann to house the large finds that German archaeologists brought from the Near East, with construction starting in 1910 and the building opening in 1930. Its best-known exhibits are the Pergamon Altar, from the Greek city in what is now Turkey, the Ishtar Gate and processional way of Babylon, and the Market Gate of Miletus. The museum also holds Islamic art and Near Eastern antiquities. It suffered damage and losses in the Second World War, and long-running renovation has kept parts of it closed.
Before and after
- 21 September 1909Birth of Kwame Nkrumah
- 3 October 1909Founding of Bologna F.C. 1909
- 26 November 1909Birth of Eugène Ionesco
- 19 December 1909Founding of Borussia Dortmund
- 1910Construction of Pergamon Museum
- 1910Founding of S.C. Corinthians Paulista
- from 1910 to 1918Kingdom of Montenegro
- 1910Founding of Instituto Federal da Bahia
- c. 1910sRise of Dada
More in Art, literature & culture
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- 7 April 1837Publication of The Little Mermaid
- 21 February 1848Publication of The Communist Manifesto
- 18 September 1851Founding of The New York Times
- 1857Rise of Symbolism
- 28 December 1895The Lumiere brothers hold the first public film screening
The era
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