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Facing the great park known as the Lustgarten on Museum Island in Berlin, the Altes Museum, or Old Museum, is a masterpiece of neoclassical architecture and the oldest of the five museums on the island, a building whose design has been admired and imitated for nearly two centuries. Completed in 1830 to designs by the celebrated architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the museum was among the first purpose-built public museums in the German lands, conceived to bring the royal collections of art and an...