page_title: James Simon Gallery
hierarchical_section_title: James Simon Gallery
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: James-Simon-Galerie auf der Museumsinsel in Berlin English: James Simon Gallery in Berlin, Germany Русский: Галерея Джеймса Симона в Берлине, Германия
context_page_description: The James Simon Gallery is a centrally located visitor center and art gallery between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree river on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. Designed by architect David Chipperfield, the gallery is named after the maecenas Henri James Simon who brought worldwide fame to the Berlin State Museums with his lavish donations.
  As the ensemble's sixth building, the gallery has a prominent position at the site of the former Packhof designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, which was demolished in 1938, and its design is inspired by the construction history of Museum Island. Chipperfield's first designs featured plain cubes with a hull of satin glass and steel, causing various protests which led to an extensive revision in 2007. The design of the reception building consisted of a stone basement, framed by a modern continuation of Friedrich August Stüler's colonnades at the Alte Nationalgalerie.
  The museum was completed in July 2019 and opened to the public after an opening ceremony on July 13, 2019. The gallery saw 26,000 visitors on its first opening day.
context_section_description: The James Simon Gallery (German: James-Simon-Galerie) is a centrally located visitor center and art gallery between the reconstructed Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben arm of the Spree river on Museum Island in Berlin, Germany. Designed by architect David Chipperfield, the gallery is named after the maecenas Henri James Simon (1851–1932) who brought worldwide fame to the Berlin State Museums with his lavish donations.
  As the ensemble's sixth building, the gallery has a prominent position at the site of the former Packhof designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, which was demolished in 1938, and its design is inspired by the construction history of Museum Island. Chipperfield's first designs featured plain cubes with a hull of satin glass and steel, causing various protests which led to an extensive revision in 2007. The design of the reception building consisted of a stone basement, framed by a modern continuation of Friedrich August Stüler's colonnades at the Alte Nationalgalerie. 
  The museum was completed in July 2019 and opened to the public after an opening ceremony on July 13, 2019. The gallery saw 26,000 visitors on its first opening day. It took over nine years to build and cost 134 million Euros, almost twice as much the planned budget of 71 million Euros.
  Similar to the Louvre Pyramid, it is designed to receive the visitors for the island, offer them orientation, and direct them to the exhibits featured on the main circuit. The James Simon Gallery provides an auditorium, a media centre, rooms for temporary exhibitions, a bookstore, shops, cafés and restaurants for all of Museum Island.
caption: The entrance of the James Simon Gallery from Museum Island in 2019
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