The Berlin Museum Island is the northern part of the Spree Island in the heart of the city and is considered nucleus of the Berlin museums. Since 1999, the museum island belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage.
The old Museum was established in 1830 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as the first museum building on Museum Island. The New Museum followed in 1859, the old National Gallery in 1876, both based on plans by Friedrich August Stüler and the Bode Museum in 1904, located on the northern peak of the island, built by Ernst von Ihne. As the last museum on the Museum Island the Pergamonmuseum, planned by Alfred Messel and Ludwig
Hoffmann, was opened to the public unfinished in 1930.
These buildings, built over a period of a hundred years, offer a comprehensive insight into the history of construction and the development of constructional elements in the 19th and early 20th century.
From a historical perspective the question arises, however, to what extent new knowledge about material properties and/or assessment methods have influenced the type of construction and the constructive design at this time?
In terms of the further use of the buildings also taking increased wind, snow and traffic load assumptions, it is of interest to catalog the historical constructions of the five Museum buildings and type to make clear basis for assessment in the stability assessment of these structures so that a scientifically informed.