Altes Museum

Altes Museum
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Location	Museum Island, Berlin
Coordinates	52°31′10″N 13°23′54″E / 52.51944°N 13.39833°E
Public transit access	U: Museumsinsel ()
Website	Altes Museum
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Part of	Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin
Criteria	Cultural: ii, iv
Reference	896
Inscription	1999 (23rd Session)
Area	8.6 ha (21 acres)
Buffer zone	22.5 ha (56 acres)

The Altes Museum (English: Old Museum) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Built between 1825 and 1830 by order of King Frederick William III of Prussia according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it is considered a major work of German Neoclassical architecture.^[1] It is surrounded by the Berlin Cathedral to the east, the Berlin Palace to the south and the Zeughaus to the west. Currently, the Altes Museum houses the Antikensammlung and parts of the Münzkabinett.^[2] As part of the Museum Island complex, the Altes Museum was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999, in recognition of its testimony to the development of the museum as a social and architectural phenomenon.^[3]

^ Altes Museum(in German) Landesdenkmalamt Berlin Archived 13 April 2019 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Home". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
^ "Museumsinsel (Museum Island), Berlin". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 20 July 2022.