The Gods return: the future of Berlin's classical collections: Berlin's vast collection of Classical antiquities, centred on the Pergamon Museum, is undergoing its greatest transformation in over half a century. Its director, Andreas Scholl, talks to Claudia Herstatt about the plans and explains the collection's new global role.(Germany)

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There are very few collections of treasures from the ancient world on the stupendous scale of the Antikensammlung, the antiquities collection of Berlin's state museums. In 2007 more than a million visitors came to the Pergamon Museum on the Museumsinsel to admire the collection's centrepiece, the mighty Pergamon Altar, which has given its name to the museum.

'The altar has never been in a better state in this museum than it is now', says the director of the Antikensammlung, Andreas Scholl, proudly. Restoration of the 2nd-century BC complex (Fig. 2), measuring 36 by 34 metres, ...

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