The Alte Nationalgalerie on Museum Island in Berlin was designed by Friedrich August Stüler for King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Carl Busse handled details after Stüler's death, and Heinrich Strack supervised construction. The text says it was built from 1862 to 1876, but also gives ground-breaking in 1867, completion of the structure in 1872 and opening on March 22, 1876.
The article describes a mix of late Classicism and early Neo-Renaissance. It is brick and iron, with the exterior and outer staircase in Triassic sandstone. It gives no dimensions.
Air raids damaged it heavily in World War II. It partly reopened in 1949, and reconstruction ran until 1969, with a renovation from 1998 to 2001. It houses 19th-century paintings and sculptures. The article gives no hours or ticket details.
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