Berlin: Neuesmuseum, Troy

Later that day we took in some more of the museums on Museum Island, principally the Neuesmuseum. The Neuesmuseum was closed in 2009--and had been since WWII--but recently re-opened after a long but beautiful restoration. We visited mostly the Schliemann/Troy collection (see http://roadeveron.blogspot.de/2010/11/troy.html) and the Egyptian collection (next post).

Gold from Troy VI-VII

"Priam's Gold"  Hmmm...so the "Priam's Gold" we saw in
Athens was fake?

As seen on Schliemann's wife (or not)

More loot from Troy

Ditto

In the larger classical section, the usual busts of famous
persons, including personal favorite Socrates

More cases and cases of famous artifacts

Plaster cast of one of Ghiberti's doors at the Florence
baptistry