Altes Museum
Altes Museum The Altes Museum is located in Berlin, Germany built between 1823 and 1830, it was designed by an architect named Karl Friedrich Schinkel, "the site required a very monumental building. Therefore I preferred one giant order rather than two individual expressions for the two main stories....The building surrounded on all sides by the Ionic entablature or the Ionic columnar hall, with Ionic pilasters at the four corners, forms a simple yet grand main structure into which the two floors are inserted in a subordinate manner”. The building was originally built as a place for the Prussian royal family (or just Berlin in general) to store their art collection but served as a contemporary art museum under the GDR (German Democratic Republic) as well. The building became a key example in the development of museum typologies. Before this building came about, the architectural elements in this structure were only really used (reserved for) buildings of more importance su...