Excerpt from Guide to the Pergamon Museum: Translated for the Board of Directors of the Royal Museums of Berlin
The Pergamon Museum which was built according to the plan of Fritz Wolff, under the supervision of Max Hasak, was begun in 1897, and finished in 1899. It was not, however, until the end of the year 1901, that the collection was completely arranged. The purpose which governed the plan of the Museum was the erection of a building in which the frieze of the Great Altar of Pergamon might find, as nearly as possible, its original setting and light. The result is a large rectangular room with the Great Altar in the middle, leaving a broad passage for the inspection of the frieze as well as of the statues and important inscriptions set up along the outside wall. The space within the altar, forms a room of great altitude especially adapted to the exhibition of architectural examples, where are placed not only fragments of the most important buildings of Pergamon, but also those from Priene and Magnesia on the Maeander River. Outside this room is another broad gallery, corresponding to the passage above, containing other important statues and inscriptions from the same cities, for which there is not space in the chief collections already mentioned.
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