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Standing on Museum Island in the heart of Berlin, the Alte Nationalgalerie, or Old National Gallery, houses one of the most important collections of nineteenth-century art in Germany, displayed within a temple-like building of striking neoclassical design. The gallery was built between the 1860s and 1870s to designs inspired by classical architecture, resembling a Greek temple raised on a high plinth and approached by a grand staircase, and it was conceived to hold the growing national collectio...