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The Neues Museum, which was developed by Friedrich August Stüler, a pupil of Schinkel's, was opened in 1859 as the first new building of the "Sanctuary for Art and Science" conceived by Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1841.
It provides three exhibition levels around two symmetrically arranged inner courtyards on both sides of a monumental staircase. The interior design was related to the departments for old Egyptian, pre- and early history ("national antiquities"), ethnology, the collection of casts of ancient art, the graphics collection and the collection of architecture and was designed by artists of late classicism and historicism (including W. von Kaulbach).
Construction of the Neues Museum broke new technical ground with its foundation piles, light weight bricks and prefabricated cast iron parts. Parts of the Neues Museum were destroyed by bombs in late 1943 and early 1945. In 1985 a decision was taken in favour of reconstructing the ruins which had been threatened by demolition several times.
