Museum Island

The island where Berlin was originally founded is now called museumsinsel. That means “Museum Island.” There are several very famous museums that are located near each other on the island. Heinrich's favorite is called the “Alte Museum” or Old Museum. It had lots of old Egyptian art and treasures.

On the outside of the building are some statues. One of the statues shows a man on a horse fighting with a lion. The poor guy must have been freezing because he didn't have very good armor.

The other statue shows a woman fighting a panther. The panther is trying to attack her horse. She has a few more clothes but apparently the hunters in olden days didn't dress up to go hunting.

In the gardens was a fun statue named “Humpty Dumpty” It looked like a strange kind of space ship with lots of odd looking parts. It didn't make a lot of sense but it was fun to try and figure out.