Night at the Pergamon Museum

Last night I paid a visit to one of the most famous museums in Berlin - the Pergamon museum. The name to the museum comes from the monumental altar at the very beginnig of the tour. The treasures of three ancient worlds were present: Classical Antiquities, Ancient Near East and Medieval Islamic World.  

Did you know that Babylonia used to flourish in the lands of the present Iraq?

Sometimes museums might be a bore but this is what I do to make the visits more agreeable:

- The basic needs need to be fulfilled. Don't even think of going to museum if you are either hungry, tired, nauseous etc. Otherwise you'll regret it. 
-Preferably go alone, if you don't especially want to discuss the art with someone (which is also nice). Often people are interested in different things and thus have different paces. 
-Take the audio guide and listen to the stories behind the works of art. If you aren't particularly interested in some piece of art, you can ruthlessly skip it. It also covers the noise of the crowded museum.
-Go to a museum when you know it's going to be more or less empty. Or do like I did and queue for half an hour to get into a crammed museum on Thursday nights for free. Patience and good humour is needed but perhaps with the saved money you can buy a nice poster from the museum shop. 
-Take some no-flash photos from the most exciting pieces, if it's allowed. But only from the most exciting.
-Get inspired (if you can). This time I wasn't so much drawn towards the Classics but for some reason all the bright blue and red things catched my attention.