Berlin Pics of the Day: Museum Island and Buried Palaces

This morning I went to the city center and Museum Island. I didn't go in any museums, since I'm going to be doing the tourist thing more when my friends get here next week. But this part of museum island was under repair last time I was in Berlin, so this was all kind of new to me. Here are some tourists enjoying a newly restored museum:

See that equestrian statue on the stairs? It's got four scholarly figures around it's base, including this guy below. I loved the cobwebs covering his face:

Nearby is the site of the old Palace of the Republic from East German days. When I was here two years ago they were tearing down the last bits of concrete. Now it's a green field. Next to it is the site of the old Schloss Berlin, which the East Germans destroyed. Here's an archeologist working on excavating the old basement:

Comments

[Juniper]

The scholar and his cobweb! Lovely. It's nice just having the opportunity to play around with the word 'cobweb' this morning. Thanks for the delicious images you've captured with Diana and now the Scholar.