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Neues Museum Berlin, Architect, Building, Photo, Restoration, News, Info, Picture
Neues Museum : Architecture Information + Images
Architecture in Berlin, Germany, Europe
15 Oct 2009
The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island to be officially reopenedIn the presence of the Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Neues
Museum will be officially reopened on the 16 October 2009. From
17 October, the building will be accessible to the public for the
first time in 70 years.
Built between 1841 and 1859 by the architect Friedrich August Stüler,
extensive bombing during the Second World War left the building
in ruins, with entire sections missing completely and others severely
damaged. Few attempts at repair were made after the war, and the
structure was left exposed to the elements. In 1997, David Chipperfield
Architects - with conservation specialist Julian Harrap - won the
international competition for the rebuilding of the Neues Museum.
Following the design phase, construction started in 2003. In the
months after the official handover on 5 March 2009, the Egyptian
Museum and Papyrus Collection, the Museum of Pre- and Early History
as well as some objects of the Collection of Antiques were installed.
Together with the famous bust of Nerfertiti in the North Dome room,
the Neues Museum will display almost 9,000 objects over approximately
8,000m².
The Neues Museum is one of five projects to have received the BDA
Preis Berlin 2009.
Building Location : Am Lustgarten 1, Mitte

photographs : Ute Zscharnt
27 Apr 2009
Royal Visit at the Neues Museum Berlin
On 30 April, as part of an official visit to Germany, Their Royal
Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit
the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, rebuilt by David Chipperfield
Architects.
The Neues Museum was designed by Friedrich August Stüler and
built between 1841 and 1859. Extensive bombing during the Second World
War left the building in ruins, with entire sections missing completely
and others severely damaged. In 1997, David Chipperfield Architects
- with restoration specialist Julian Harrap - won the international
competition for the rebuilding of the Neues Museum.
After more than ten years of intensive work, the completion of the
rebuilt Neues Museum was celebrated in an official ceremony on 5 March
2009. During the public open days from 6 to 8 March, over 35,000 people
visited the building. The national and international press coverage
was hugely positive and enthusiastic.
In October 2009, after more than 60 years in ruin, the Neues Museum
will reopen to the public as the third restored building on Museum
Island, exhibiting the collections of the Egyptian Museum and the
Museum of Pre- and Early History.
By visiting the Neues Museum, Their Royal Highnesses recognise the
good relations between Germany and Great Britain. Their stay in Berlin
is part of an official five-day trip, taking Their Royal Highnesses
through Italy, the Holy See and Germany. Her Majesty The Queen visited
the Neues Museum in 2004 to honour David Chipperfield as a Commander
of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

photographs : Ute Zscharnt
David Chipperfield Architects' News Release 4 Mar 2009
Neues Museum Rebuilding on Berlin's Museum Island
On March 5th, after more than ten years of intensive work,
the completion of the rebuilt Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island
will be celebrated in an official ceremony.
Built between 1841 and 1859 by the architect Friedrich August Stüler,
extensive bombing during the Second World War left the building in
ruins, with entire sections missing completely and others severely
damaged. Few attempts at repair were made after the war, and the structure
was left exposed to nature. In 1997, David Chipperfield Architects
- with Julian Harrap - won the international competition for the rebuilding
of the Neues Museum.
Südost Risalit (South East Dome) Re-built with salvaged bricks

image : David Chipperfield Architects
The key aim of the project was to recomplete the original volume,
and encompassed the repair and restoration of the parts that remained
after the destruction of the Second World War. The original sequence
of rooms was restored with new building sections that create continuity
with the existing structure. The archaeological restoration followed
the guidelines of the Charter of Venice, respecting the historical
structure in its different states of preservation. All the gaps in
the existing structure were filled in without competing with the existing
structure in terms of brightness and surface. The restoration and
repair of the existing is driven by the idea that the original structure
should be emphasized in its spatial context and original materiality
- the new reflects the lost without imitating it.
The new exhibition rooms are built of large format pre-fabricated
concrete elements consisting of white cement mixed with Saxonian marble
chips. Formed from the same concrete elements, the new main staircase
repeats the original without replicating it, and sits within a majestic
hall that is preserved only as a brick volume, devoid of its original
ornamentation.
Other new volumes - the Northwest wing, with the Egyptian court and
the Apollo risalit, the apse in the Greek courtyard, and the South
Dome - are built of recycled handmade bricks, complementing the preserved
sections. With the reinstatement and completion of the mostly preserved
colonnade at the Eastern and Southern side of the Neues Museum, the
pre-war urban situation is re-established to the East. A new building,
the James Simon Gallery, will be constructed between the Neues Museum
and the Spree, echoing the urban situation of the site pre-1938.

image : David Chipperfield Architects
In October 2009, after more than 60 years in ruin, the Neues Museum
will reopen to the public as the third restored building on Museum
Island, exhibiting the collections of the Egyptian Museum and the
Museum of Pre- and Early History. In the interim period, vitrines,
pedestals and plinths designed by Michele de Lucchi will be installed.
Quote David Chipperfield: "The handing over of the Neues Museum
represents an important moment in the process of bringing the Museum
which was destroyed during the Second World War back into the public
life of the city. We can finally show the results of eleven years
of planning and intense collaboration with the Stiftung Preußischer
Kulturbesitz, the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, the Bundesamt für
Bauwesen und Raumordnung and the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin and we believe
this effort is now visible for all to see."

photos © Adrian Welch
Neues Museum, Berlin - Restoration, Repair
& Intervention
David Chipperfield Architects at Sir John Soane's Museum, London,
2008
Sir John Soanes Museum
London hosts exhibition on the Neues Museum project
In October 2009, the Neues Museum in Berlin will open to the public
for the first time since the Second World War. The main staircase
hall was bombed out in 1943, and the South East dome and the North
West wing were destroyed at the end of the war. Most of the surviving
applied art subsequently suffered further deterioration by being exposed
to the elements. In 1997, David Chipperfield Architects, in collaboration
with Julian Harrap Architects, was commissioned by the Staatliche
Museen zu Berlin to turn the Neues Museum back into an active museum
for art treasures of international reputation. The brief called
for the existing building fabric to be treated as an architectural
monument of the highest historical, artistic and scientific importance.
The focal point of the Neues Museum exhibition is not so much the
delicate infill of the missing parts of the actual building, but the
sophisticated unravelling of two dimensional layers as annotated in
a series of working drawings. Dubbed the coffee-stained
drawings, they have been updated on a daily basis, recording
every move on site, inch by inch. They are not the work of a single
genius but a palimpsest drawn by many hands. The process and the conceptual
approach of the Neues Museum project have been described by many as
creative restoration. It is clear that each decision is
the result of an elaborate process involving designers, curators,
historians, restorers and specialists. This bespoke preservation on
a room-by-room or fragment-by-fragment basis is both daring and sensitive.
The drawings testify to a profound renewal of the Neues Museum building
creating a precise equilibrium between restoration, repair and intervention.
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