Ishtar Gate It was a 2 hour wait just to get inside the Pergamon Museum . Luckily, the sun was shining and it was comfortable standing outside with just a light jacket and medium heel espadrilles. The Pergamon is undergoing renovations and a section of it will be closed after September 2014. The main entrance is now closed and visitors must enter from a side entrance in the courtyard bounded by the Neues Museum , the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Pergamon on Museum Island . I bought the area ticket worth € 18 which may be used to enter a number of other museums within the same day of purchase. What I should have done though was buy the €25 annual basic membership Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ticket so I could have skipped the line. Well next time I know better. This was my second visit to the Pergamon. I was quite impressed with the Gate of Ishtar the first time around which is why it was on my bucket list on this trip and the reason why I endured the long wait. I wa
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