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Built over a period between 1910 to 1930, the Pergamonmuseum (Pergamon Museum) the Pergamon is one of the most important archeological museums in the world and is truly worth a visit. The museum is divided into three sections: the Antiquity Collection, the Islamic Art Museum, and the Near East Museum. The Antiquity Collection is noted as the main attraction of the museum and offers several monumental structures, including the Pergamon Altar (170-159 BC).

Constructed as an altar to Zeus, the Pergamon Altar occupies an entire room and is considered the centerpiece of the museum. The Near East Museum has one of the largest collections of antiquities from ancient Babylonia, Persia, and Assyria. The Roman Market Gate of Miletus (AD 120) is equally breathtaking in its own right, as is the tiled Gate of Ishtar, which dates from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 BC).

The Islamic Art Museum, the largest collections of Islamic art in the West, features the art of Islam from the eighth through the nineteenth centuries, with spectacular miniatures, carpets, and wood carvings. The Pergamon Museum is one of the five structures on Berlin's Museum Island and one of the three renovated since it was nearly destroyed during World War II.

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