Culture online – discover Berlin’s Museum Island virtually
Visit the museum from home here’s how you can experience Berlin’s Museum Island by means of virtual tours, an interactive app and fascinating online storytelling.
Sabine Giehle ,
03.07.2025 
Berlin’s Museum Island is one of the most important and largest museum complexes in the world. Its unique collections and exhibitions attract millions of tourists to the German capital every year. Even if you can’t travel to the Spree in person, you still have the chance to enjoy the art treasures, wander virtually through the exhibition halls, and watch the online restoration of masterpiece. Here’s a best-of selection from the island’s digital offerings:
Babylon Reloaded: The south wing of the Pergamon Museum – with its famous processional way lined with lions and the blue-and-gold Ishtar Gate of Babylon – will remain closed for renovations for many years. But online you can visit the historic exhibition around the clock – complete with audio guide.
Caspar David Friedrich – restoration and painting technique: You can relive how Caspar David Friedrich’s “Monk by the Sea” and its companion piece, “The Abbey in the Oakwood”, were transformed from very pale, crinkled, partly overpainted and varnish-covered gloomy paintings into radiant, colourful gems through careful restoration techniques.
Dating app for art lovers
The app “Perfect Match! Bode-Museum” (for Android and iOS) invites you to chat with artworks from the Bode Museum: just like in a dating app, you can choose to get to know a piece better – or swipe on to your next potential match.
Uruk – 5,000 years of a megacity: This is where Gilgamesh once lived, the legendary ruler of the Sumerians, son of the goddess Ninsun according to the epic. The Pergamon Museum presented the results of more than 100 years of research into one of Mesopotamia’s greatest cities at a special exhibition – and it is now available in full as a virtual tour.
Fascinating films about artworks
The film series “Backstories” tells remarkable stories about works of art from the collections at the National Museums in Berlin – for example about the Princesses Monument, a double statue of Prussian Crown Princess Luise and her sister Frederike. This life-size sculpture by Johann Gottfried Schadow is housed in the Alte Nationalgalerie.
