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 Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:25 am |
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http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009/10/rebirth-of-a-masterpiece-seven-decades-later-berlins-neues-museum-finally-opens/?mbid=rss_feature
"Thousands of Berliners lined up last week to catch a glimpse of the
Egyptian queen, one of the 9,000 artifacts on display, many of which
haven’t been seen since the Nazis shuttered the place in 1939.
Originally built in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase Prussia’s
archaeological treasures, the Neues Museum now houses everything from
a 700,000-year-old stone tool to a piece of barbed wire from the
city’s iconic dividing wall, with stops along the way for a
netherworld of sarcophagi, a library of papyrus documents in a Babel
of ancient languages, and, most curious of all: the Berliner Goldhut,
a gilded ceremonial hat with what is believed to be a calendar etched
into its peak—think Coneheads meets Bronze Age sun-worshippers."
David Christainsen |
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| Whiskers... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:03 am |
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On 2009-10-30, crunch <pchristainsen at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
[quote]http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2009/10/rebirth-of-a-masterpiece-seven-decades-later-berlins-neues-museum-finally-opens/?mbid=rss_feature
"Thousands of Berliners lined up last week to catch a glimpse of the
Egyptian queen, one of the 9,000 artifacts on display, many of which
haven’t been seen since the Nazis shuttered the place in 1939.
Originally built in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase Prussia’s
archaeological treasures, the Neues Museum now houses everything from
a 700,000-year-old stone tool to a piece of barbed wire from the
city’s iconic dividing wall, with stops along the way for a
netherworld of sarcophagi, a library of papyrus documents in a Babel
of ancient languages, and, most curious of all: the Berliner Goldhut,
a gilded ceremonial hat with what is believed to be a calendar etched
into its peak—think Coneheads meets Bronze Age sun-worshippers."
David Christainsen
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More about the "golden hat" here
<http://www.europeanvirtualmuseum.it/museum/dettagli.asp?reperto=166>.
More about the museum itself here
<http://www.neues-museum.de/architektur.php> - needs Flash, but worth it;
Click on 'Virtueller Architektur-Rundgang" for a panoramic virtual tour -
you can move the view of each room by using the mouse or the arrow keys.
You can see where the bomb damage and years of neglect have not been
restored or covered up. The 'Statement by David Chipperfield' has the
soundtrack in English.
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