The Alte Museum, built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1825-1830, houses the Classical Collection and masterpieces from the National Gallery. He planned to create a center of art and archeology modeled on ancient temple areas. Today, five classical buildings on the islands in the Spree form a unique ensemble. In 1999 the UNESCO bestowed the [...]
This 2.2 mile shopping boulevard and its side streets offer a colorful variety that make strolling down it a pleasure: department stores and restaurants, boutiques and cafés, luxury hotels and theatres, fascinating museums and art galleries, luxury goods and junk. Originally a bridle path leading to the hunting lodge of the Kurfürst (Elector) in Grunewald, [...]
Year after year, Rembrandt’s ‘Night Watch’, behind its protective screen of reinforced glass, attracts more than a million art lovers from all over the world into the neo-classical brick building in the center of the museum district.
Founded by Louis Bonaparte in 1808, the Rijksmuseum now contains not only the world’s largest and most important collection [...]
Every day, long lines form in front of the entrance to no. 267, the old canal house which is one of Amsterdam’s best-known and most visited museums. It was here that Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, until in 1944 she was discovered and transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [...]
