Museums of Berlin

an art gallery of European masters

Medieval 

Christ and St John playing with angels

A bag piper who got too much in the sauce

a very pretty mandolin player

the Dutch Masters themselves

ah Venice

I loved the bright colors

Berliner Dom

front doors of Berlin cathedral

sanctuary

organ pipes

looking up at the dome

the pulpit

nine flights of stairs to the top

statue of Christ from walkway

Moses and the tablets

the TV Tower and  Mayor's Office (red tower on right)

view of the Schpre River

worth the climb

Altes Museum  -  classical antiquities

Alte National Galerie   19th century sculptures

Goddess Diana toweling off

Daniel's friend

like father, like son

boy with thorn in the foot

dog with itchy ear

the city gate of Ishtar Babylon

market gate of Miletus

Islamic art

Friedrich Wilhelm on horse

ancient Russian (south east region)

Egyptian

Berlin is truly a city rich in museums.  We began our touring at the Gemalde galeria which is an art museum full of the European masters.  If you don't use your flash, you can take all the pictures you want.  I chose a few of the many I took to share with you here.  Next we went to Museum Island which is a part of the city and an actual island formed by the Schpre river just full of museums and the Berlin Cathedral.  The cathedral is immense.  It's size alone is awesome.  Inside some of the most beautiful art and paintings.  We were lucky enough to catch someone practicing the pipe organ.  That sound had some real power behind it.  We took the challenge to walk up to the dome walkway which is 9 stories up...stairs all the way.  Once at the top the view of the city was spectacular as we looked from behind giant statues at the city below.  The other museums on the island are grand looking buildings with stairways and columns like the ancient ruins they house within.  The names of them are the Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte National Galerie, the Pergamon Museum, and the Bode Museum.  We spent a good part of three days exploring these wonderul archives of treasure.  I hope you enjoy the few representative pictures shared here.  Sculptures of Greece and Rome, Egypt and Babylon.  I thought it fitting to end my blog today with the first family,  Adam and Eve.  A loving couple, but they started so much trouble.