Exterior view
by SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich, Photo
The Altes Museum, executed 1823-30 by Schinkel, had to absorb a highly diversified collection of art. The building, opposite the royal palace in Berlin, opens to the square with a long colonnade of Ionic columns.
The interior, a central hall based on the model of the Pantheon containing an exhibition of sculptures, is reached across an open flight of steps. The remaining collection rooms, arranged as three-aisle halls, are grouped on two stories round two square courts.
The building is on the Museum Island in Berlin. Since restoration work in 2010-11, it houses the Antikensammlung (antiquities collection) of the Berlin State Museums.