# Exterior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The Altes Museum, executed 1823-30 by Schinkel, had to absorb a highly diversified collection of art. The building, opposite the royal palace in Berlin, opens to the square with a long colonnade of Ionic columns. The interior, a central hall based on the model of the Pantheon containing an exhibition of sculptures, is reached across an open flight of steps. The remaining collection rooms, arranged as three-aisle halls, are grouped on two stories round two square courts. The building is on the Museum Island in Berlin. Since restoration work in 2010-11, it houses the Antikensammlung \(antiquities collection\) of the Berlin State Museums. ## Related artworks - [Design for the architectural academy in Berlin]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Exterior view]() - [Gothic Cathedral with Imperial Palace]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Interior view]() - [Kreuzberg Monument]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()