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The architect Professor O.M. Ungers from Cologne, who died in 2007, won the competition in 2000 for creation of a closed circuit and for connection to the Archaeological Promenade and the new reception building.
According to these plans, a main circuit is to be created with a supplementary fourth wing which unifies the exhibits of monumental architecture of the Ägyptisches Museum (Egyptian and Ancient Near East Museum), the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of the Ancient Near East), the Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum of Islamic Art) into a single presentation. Moreover, the Pergamonmuseum is integrated into the organism of the entire Museumsinsel, whereby the insular character will be experienced in a new quality.
In the future, it will be possible at all times - even when the museums are not open - to walk from the Kolonnadenhof of the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Neues Museum through opened passageways to the Ehrenhof (Honours Courtyard) of the Pergamonmuseum and from there directly to the courtyards of the Bode-Museum without having to leave the island, as had always been the case before. Thus the Ehrenhof will develop a new quality as a forum with a distributor function. There will also be a passageway from the new central reception building (James Simon-Galerie) directly to the main circuit in the Pergamonmuseum. The Archeological Promenade will connect the Pergamonmuseum to both its neighbours, the Neues Museum and the Bode-Museum.
