So Wednesday was probably the best day so far. I went to Museum Island, but this time I was prepared. I went right around 10am when they open, and I had discovered that you can actually buy a day ticket for every museum from any museum. Meaning you don't need to line up at the ticket booth or the popular museums, you can just go to the least popular museum, buy a ticket and skip the lines at all the others. Judging by the lines at the main ticket booth, most people had no idea about this. As it turned out, rocking up at 10am was enough as I was able to walk straight into the Pergamon which is the most popular.

And it's the most popular for a reason. Without a doubt the most amazing museum I have ever set foot in. It is most famous and named for the Pergamon Altar which is an ancient Roman Altar which they dug up from Turkey and rebuilt piece by piece inside the museum. You can even walk up the steps of it. The frieze which would have gone around the entirety of the altar is actually reconstruction along the walls to the side and front of the altar so you are standing in the middle of it and can see it all rather than having to walk around the altar to see it.

Once you finally manage to pull yourself from that amazing room and walk into the next you're greeted by another rebuilt roman structure. I'm not entirely sure what this one was, but it was almost as impressive and you had to walk through it to get into the next room.

Now the next room was probably the best of all. This is where the Ishtar Gate is. Once again, they actually took the gate piece by piece from Babylon and rebuilt it exactly as it was inside the museum. Unfortunately it's only the smaller gate as the larger one wouldn't fit. They have that still in pieces in storage. Maybe one day they will build a bigger museum for it. You to to walk through and around it and it's just so amazing. It just looks so impressive and I can only imagine what it must have been like back when it was built and in its original setting.

After this there was an exhibit on Uruk which is the oldest known city discovered and an exhibit of middle east and islamic art. As cool as most of that was, it just didn't compare to the rebuilt structures of the previous rooms.

Yesterday I went and saw the East Side Gallery which is a reconstructed part of the Berlin Wall covered in graffiti. Then I went and walked around the Charlottenburg Palace. Not really much to say about either of those.