Nefertiti exhibition in Berlin

Si vas a travel to berlin until April 2013, you have the opportunity to visit the exceptional Nefertiti exhibition at the Neues Museum.

In a city where there are more than a hundred museums, those concentrated in the so-called Museum island They are, without a doubt, the ones that have the greatest attraction for visitors because in them you can see a very important collection of objects and art from Antiquity.

In this regard, in the Pergamon Museum you find great architectural gems like the Pergamon Altar or the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. But if what catches your attention the most is Egyptian art, it is Neues Museum (New museum) where you should go.

Reopened in October 2009, following its reconstruction after being destroyed in World War II, the New Museum it has become a egyptian art museum, where a papyrus collection, but it is also a museum dedicated to Prehistory.

Without a doubt, the piece icon of the Neues Museum in Berlin is the bust of Nefertiti, to whom this exhibition commemorating the one hundred years of its discovery, on December 6, 1912.

La Nefertiti exhibition is presented under the title In the light of Amarna, and displays objects never seen by visitors until now. It presents the figure of Nefertiti in the historical and cultural context of the time in which she lived in Ancient Egypt.

Amarna is what the ruins of the ancient city of Akhetaton were called, and during excavations carried out between 1912 and 1913 almost 10.000 objects were collected, of which 5.000 are currently in Berlin.

La exposure represents the discovery of the bust of Nefertiti in the workshop of the Egyptian craftsman Thutmose. Some 400 objects are exhibited there, including 50 loans from other institutions, such as the British museum, Louvre or Metropolitan Museum of New York.

The Visiting hours for the Nefertiti exhibition at the Neues museum in Berlin They are, every day of the week, from 10 a.m. to 18 p.m., except on Thursdays, when the museum closes at 20 p.m.

The ticket prices It is 14 euros, with a reduced rate of 7 euros for students, disabled people and the unemployed. Admission is free for minors up to 18 years old.

If you want to sign up for one tour, the additional price is 3 euros.

In anticipation of the queues that there may be, it is advisable to make the online purchase of tickets to visit the Nefertiti exhibition (here purchase tickets for visits until January 13 2013).