Egypt
Berlin's Museum Island gets a facelift
http://tinyurl.com/d4g9z
A very short article that mentions improvements at the Berlin Museum that houses the Berlin Egyptology collection: "Renovation work continues on the galleries of Berlin's Museum Island, located between the River Spree and Kupfergraben . . . . . A refreshed Neues Museum -- its Egyptian collection includes the famous limestone bust of Queen Nefertiti -- will debut in 2009 with a glass skin preserving its classic façade".
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Museums
Neues Museum re-openening http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/berlin-neues-museum-reopens/story?id=8859496 For the first time since WWII all of the galleries of Berlin's Neues Museum are open to the public, as of 16th October. It has been closed since 1939...
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Berlin’s Neues Museum Announces Grand Re-opening
Travel Video News After more than 60 years in ruins, the Neues Museum (New Museum) on Berlin’s Museum Island is scheduled to re-open its doors on October 16, 2009. The re-opening completes the decade long, 200 million Euro restoration project, marking...
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Nefertiti Returns To Island Home
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/qtakes/cl-et-quick13.3aug13,0,3379375.story"A famous bust of Egyptian queen Nefertiti has returned to Berlin's Museum Island, 66 years after being evacuated at the outbreak of World War II. Ever since...
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Queen Nefertiti Moves
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=420&art_id=qw1121747766793T614 "One of art history's most beautiful women is moving to a new address this summer, marking the reunification of the Berlin Egyptian Museum's fabulous collection...
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Return Of The Neues
Here we have a view of the original Egyptian court destroyed in the second world war. The neoclassical Neues museum was designed by architect Friedrich August Stuler and opened on Berlin's museum island in 1855 having taken more than a dozen...
Egypt