Neues Museum
Rebuilt neoclassical museum where bomb scars and bullet holes were deliberately left exposed beside its ancient Egyptian collection.
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This guide to the Neues Museum in Berlin starts with the bullet holes still visible in its walls, left deliberately after the building spent seventy years as a bombed-out ruin following British air raids in 1943. It follows architect David Chipperfield's unusual 1990s reconstruction, which repaired what had to be repaired and left the war's scars exposed elsewhere, through the museum's reopening in October 2009 to wide critical acclaim. At the center of the rebuilt galleries sits the bust of Queen Nefertiti, carved roughly 3,400 years ago and excavated in 1912, whose journey to Berlin Egypt has never stopped disputing.
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