Remainder of Thursday in Berlin

After finishing at the Memorial for murdered Jews, we headed off for a late lunch and then onto Museumsinsel (Museum Island). Our plan was to go to the Pergamonmuseum, but unfortunately there was a two-hour wait to get in and, as the weather was bad and I had a head cold, we decided to try to get into another museum. We ended up going to the Neues Museum, where we saw some wonderful things including the Golden Hat, known as the Berlin Golden Hat. It is the best preserved specimen among the four conical Golden Hats known from the Bronze Age Europe. We also saw the Bust of Nefertiti, and the Xanten Youth and the Berlin Green Head, an ancient Egyptian statue head made from greenschist. It is considered to be the work of a highly skilled (though unknown) Egyptian sculptors, as well as one of the most famous and credited pieces of art from the late and Ptolemaic periods of ancient Egypt.Read more