Greetings!
It took us two days to see the collections we came to see in what is locally called. "Museum Island". We thought we had tickets to the suite of museums, and a scheduled all-day entry to the most popular "Pergamom Museum" for yesterday. For serious museum visitors, I can only say that you ought to re-examine your stamina if your goals are to see them all in one day.
The Neues Museum and the Pergamom sell selected two-hour time tickets, and both are full of exhaustingly complex multi-lingual written and audio guide information. The good news is that there is an excellent cafe in the Neues Museum, and it can make a long day easier. The only other advice we have to offer is to be sure to bring a Euro to utilize the key-secured locker. The coin is returned to you upon retrieval, but you're out of luck if you don't have one at the start.
Why is this museum complex important to visit? For the last one hundred and fifty years, historians and societies of explorers have searched the world for the answers to what came before. Acquiring and assembling the pieces of life, these museums help us know the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful of the lives of generations of humans all over the planet. For us, these rooms contain much of the treasures which were dug up at places we have visited in our travels. I have heard many times "the best stuff from here was taken by the Germans, and is in the Berlin Museum". Today, we got to see what was taken, and it certainly enriched our previous travels.
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