Atles Museum
The Altes Museum takes most of its influence from Greek antiquity and classical architecture. The museum employs the ionic order to articulate the 87 m face of the building, which is the only part of the exterior with any visual signs of order. The other three facades are brick and stone banding. On top of the eighteen columns that support the portico, sit eighteen sandstone eagles. After the broad staircase and ionic columns, the portico leads through a bronze portal to a double staircase ending in a double staircase ending in an upper hall. The staircase and hall are separated by a colonnade providing a panorama of Berlin.
The echinitation rooms are grouped around two inner courtyards, which the center of the building being two stories, skylit rotunda and is surrounded by a gallery supported by twenty Corinthian columns. Just like the Pantheon, the interior surface is adorned with coffering. And some of the museums statue collection is displayed between the rotunda's twenty columns. The 6.9 m wide granite basin by Christian Gottlieb Cantian, which is now rests in Lustgarten directly in front of the museum, was to be installed under the skylight, but was judged to be too large for the museum. The rotunda was the only part of the museum that was reconstructed during the 1966 renovation
The echinitation rooms are grouped around two inner courtyards, which the center of the building being two stories, skylit rotunda and is surrounded by a gallery supported by twenty Corinthian columns. Just like the Pantheon, the interior surface is adorned with coffering. And some of the museums statue collection is displayed between the rotunda's twenty columns. The 6.9 m wide granite basin by Christian Gottlieb Cantian, which is now rests in Lustgarten directly in front of the museum, was to be installed under the skylight, but was judged to be too large for the museum. The rotunda was the only part of the museum that was reconstructed during the 1966 renovation