James Simon Gallery

James Simon Gallery

The James Simon Gallery will be a new, centrally-located visitor centre between the Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben on the Museum Island in Berlin. Designed by architect David Chipperfield, the gallery is named after James Simon (1851-1932) who brought worldwide fame to the Berlin State Museums with his lavish donations.

As the Museum Island's sixth building, the gallery will set a concluding accent in the construction history of the Museum Island; the new building will be modern with a hull of satin glass and steel. The new reception building will also have a prominent position along the Kupfergraben, assuming the dimensions of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Packhofgebäude which stood in the same place until the 1930s.

The James Simon Gallery is mainly created for the growing numbers of visitors to the Museum Island, which, when all the museums have been opened, are expected to reach four million visitors annually. The gallery will receive the visitors for the island, offer them orientation and direct them to the exhibits featured on the main circuit. In addition, the James Simon Gallery will provide the infrastructure of an auditorium, a media centre, rooms for temporary exhibitions, a bookstore, shops, cafés and restaurants for all of the Museum Island.

External links

* [http://www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/index.php?lang=en&page=2_7_1 James Simon-Galerie]
* [http://www.museumsinsel-berlin.de/images/2_haeuser/2_7_1_1_ansicht.jpgImage of the James Simon Gallery]


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