The Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Berlin, Germany | Museum

The Egyptian Museum in Berlin, Germany,  is one of the most renown Museums of its kind in the world. The collection consists of ca. 45000 objects including the world famous bust of Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tiy and the 'Berlin Green Head'.   The Papyrus collection contains ca. 60000 texts in Hieroglyphic, Greek and Arabic script.

The Egyptian collection at The Egyptian Museum was founded due to the recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt in 1828 to King Friedrich Wilhelm III. .

The Egyptian Collection was able to move into a Museum especially build for it in 1850 - the'Neues Museum', located on the Museums Island.

The collection grew in the following years due to purchases, gifts and excavations. The most important excavation took place in the years 1911 to 1914 in Amarna, the finds of which greatly enhanced the collection.

The second World War had dire consequences for the collection.

The objects which were returned from Russia to Berlin, after the war, were placed in the The Egyptian Museum on the Museums Island.  There the exhibition focused on culture and religion. Large size reliefs from the pyramid temples, mastabas and colossal statues of kings and gods as well as coffins masks and mummies introduced the visitors to the religious believes and world comprehension of the ancient Egyptians