Next up was the Neues Museum, the New Museum, where the really old stuff is, which we'd visited also in 2012, posting on the Troy bits and also the Egypt bits. Pride of the place is the Nefertiti bust; so much so that no pix are permitted.
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But, standing outside the room, waiting for the guards to
turn their backs, I did get this one memorable shot |
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We spent rather more time with the Neantherthals,
the Neolithics, then the Celts, this time |
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Nice diorama of an elderly artisan fashioning
a Venus from ivory |
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Cycladic figures--the Neolithics got around rather more than
one might think |
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| Celtic ornaments |
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The great Golden Hat...Celtic, actually a device
for astronomical calculations |
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| Among the scene-setting large paintings adorning the Neues Museum |
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| Lions Gate replica from Mycenae |
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| Now looking at Trojan loot, entering the Schliemann exhibit |
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Heinrich Schliemann, the great adventurer who made his fortune
in the California gold fields and who figured the best way to
find Troy was to read Homer... |
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Priam's Mask?...rather unclear how much loot was looted by the
Russians, how much was in Turkey or Greece... |
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| More of the haul |
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| Still the main draw...a photo of a photo |
1 comment:
Yes, but Nefertiti is so memorable. You might forget everything else in the museum, but you will remember Nefertiti.
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