The building which since 1967 has been the home of the Staatliche Antikensammlungen was designed by Georg Friedrich Ziebland and built in the Late Neo-Classical style in 1838-48. It originally housed an "Exhibition of Art and Industry" which was moved to the Glaspalast in the Alter Botanische Garten in 1854. The building was expressly conceived as the counterpart of the Glyptothek which stands opposite; hence the figure of Bavaria, patroness of Bavarian art and industry, adorns the center of the pediment, the position occupied in the case of the Glyptothek by the figure of Athene, patroness of the Greek arts, the ideal to which Bavarian art aspired.
Between 1898 and 1916 the Galerie der Münchner Secession (a group of avant garde artists founded in 1892) occupied the building, and in 1919 it became the Neue Staatsgalerie (now in the west wing of the Haus der Kunst. After being severely damaged in the last war (1943), it was restored in the 1960s, the architect being Johannes Ludwig.
The collection comprises a magnificent array of vases, together with bronzes, pottery, terracottas and small sculptures.
Room I: Cretan-Mycenaean, early Greek and early Attic pottery (14th-eighth C. B.C.); Hans von Schoen Collection of Greek earthenware vessels, terracottas and bronzes. The famous Helicon Lekythos (case D).
Room II: Archaic Attic vases, early Greek vases from Athens, Corinth, Sparta and Ionia; Greek pottery from the eighth to seventh century B.C., eastern Greek clay sarcophagus.
Beautiful Dionysian bowl (case 12).
Room III: (central area): Late archaic and Early Classical Attic vases, Panathenaic prize amphorae; Greek pottery of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. including the amphora of Andodices (case 6).
Room IV: Classical Attic vases, Greek pottery from the fifth century B.C.
Room V: Late Classical vase, Greek pottery of the fifth to second century B.C.; James Loeb collection, with Greek earthenware vessels, terracottas and bronzes.
Upper floor with staircase (over the central area)
Bronze articles, bronze kettles (presented by James Loeb), small bronzes, earthenware vessels and sculptures from Etruria; Italian ceremonial vessels.
Greek landscapes by Carl Rottmann (1797-1850).
Basement
Corridor: earthenware vessels from Boeotia (eighth-sixth century B.C.) and Cyprus (10th-sixth c. B.C.).
Room VII: Etruscan gold jewelry, ancient silver.
Room VIII: Greek bronze-work, ancient glass. Roman reticulated glass (case 2); Greek bronze, the "Maiden of Beröa".
Room IX: Greek and Roman terracottas and bronzes. Spartan upright mirror (case 1).
Room X: Greek and Roman gold jewelry and gold jewelry from the James Loeb Collection; superbly worked gold funerary garland from Armento (case 2, wall)
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