Egyptian Museum of Berlin

Recorded constituent parts are Bust of Queen Nefertiti. It is associated with Germany. The record gives 1828 as its date of establishment or first appearance. The recorded subject matter is Ancient Egypt. It forms part of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Neues Museum. Its recorded founders are Alexander von Humboldt and Frederick William III of Prussia.

• Name — Egyptian Museum of Berlin • Location — Museum Island, Berlin • Website — https: www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/aegyptisches-museum-und-papyrussammlung/

• Illustration — Nefertiti Bust • Illustration — Egyptian courtyard at the Neues Museum, lithograph by Eduard Gaertner (1862) The museum originated in the 18th century from the royal art collection of the Hohenzollern kings of Prussia. Alexander von Humboldt had recommended that an Egyptian section be created, and the first objects were brought to Berlin in 1828 under King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Initially housed in Monbijou Palace, the department was headed by the Trieste merchant Giuseppe Passalacqua (1797–1865), whose extensive collections formed the basis. A Prussian expedition to Egypt and Nubia led by Karl Richard Lepsius in 1842–45 brought additional pieces to Berlin. In 1850, the collections moved to its present-day home in the Neues Museum, built according to plans designed by Friedrich August Stüler. The Nefertiti Bust, discovered during the excavations by Ludwig Borchardt in Amarna, was donated to the museum by the entrepreneur Henri James Simon in 1920; it quickly became its best-known exhibit. After World War II, during which the Neues Museum was heavily damaged by strategic bombing, the collections were divided between East and West Berlin. The main part remained in East Berlin and was displayed at the Bode Museum, while those artifacts evacuated to West Germany, including the Nefertiti Bust, returned to West Berlin. From 1967 to 2005, these items were housed vis-à-vis Charlottenburg Palace. The whole collection was reunited again after the Reunification of Germany, when it returned to Museum Island.

• Illustration — Kalabsha Gate, from the Temple of Kalabsha, donated as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia • Illustration — Figure of a girl with a cat and standing figure of a young woman, 18th Dynasty, c. 1380 and 19. Dynasty, Abusir el Meleq and Thebes • Illustration — Head of a statue of king Ptolemaios X (reign 110–88 BC) • Illustration — Standing Figure of Nefertiti • Illustration — Head of Amarna Princess • Illustration — Relief portrait of Akhenaten • Illustration — Tai-tai, the Priest. New Kingdom, Eighteenth Dynasty, 1380 BC • Illustration — Akhenaten and Nefertiti with their children. Amarna Period, 1350 BC • Illustration — Queen Tiye, Amarna Period, 1355 BC • Illustration — Berlin Green Head, 100-50 BC • Illustration — Statue of Amenemhat III (Berlin)