Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung
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The Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin is housed in the eastern part of the Neo-Classical Stülerbau (Stüler Building: in the western part of the Museum of Antiquities), which was erected by Friedrich August Stüler opposite Charlottenburg Palace in 1850, and also in the old Royal Stables. It displays some 1,500 works of art and culture from Ancient Egypt, of the period from 5000 BC to AD 300.
The most important works of art are in thirteen rooms on the ground and middle floors of the main building.
The most important works of art are in thirteen rooms on the ground and middle floors of the main building.
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The most celebrated exhibits are the limestone head of Queen Nefertiti (c. 1350 BC), wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Echnaton and part of the head of King Echnaton, initiator of a short-lived religious reform c. 1350 BC The Amarna family altar (depicting Nefertiti and Echnaton with three of their six daughters) and the "Walk in the Garden" (the royal couple when young), portrait masks from the workshop of the sculptor Thutmosis in Amarna, a small ebony head of Queen Teje, Echnaton's mother (c. 1370 BC and the funerary stele of a royal sculptor named Bak and his wife.
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Address:
Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, Bodestrasse 1-3, D-10178 Berlin, Germany
Hours:
10am-6pm; Thu: 10am-8pm; Fri: 10am-8pm; Sat: 10am-8pm
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