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Pergamon Museum, Berlin

The Pergamon Museum is situated on the Museum Island in Berlin and was constructed in twenty years, from 1910 to Pergamon Altar 1930. The Pergamon houses Pergamon Museum original-sized, the Market Gate of Miletus, all consisting of reconstructed parts transported monumental buildings the as from Turkey. There is controversy over such legitimacy of the acquisition of the collection. Itthe Pergamon Altar, the collection should be returned to was suggested that Turkey (original country of the excavations). The museum is subdivided into the antiquity collection, the Middle East museum, and the museum of Islamic art. The museum is visited by approximately 850,000 people every year, making it the most visited art museum in Germany. The Pergamon Museum was severely damaged during the air attack ofeither as war booty or, ostensibly, to rescue Many of the museum items, Berlin at the end of the Second World War. display objects were stored in safe places, Berlin. Not of the1958 pieces were them from looting and fires then raging in and some until large walled in for protection. In 1945, the East Army collected all of in loose were most of the objects returned to Red Germany. remain the Significant parts of the collection Russia. Some are currently stored in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg. The return of these items has been arranged in a treaty Ishtar Gate Aleppo room between Germany and Russia but, as of June

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Music: Bach-Brandenburg Concerto

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