![]() ![]() In order to appropriately display the Amarna finds, the galleries of the Neues Museum required significant renovation. On 11 July 1920, James Simon, one of the greatest patrons in the museums’ history, had donated the objects to the Ägyptisches Museum, including the bust of Nefertiti. A separate room was therefore planned for the permanent display of the art from Amarna. The exhibition, of limited duration due to the inclusion of loans from Egypt which had to be returned, sparked great public enthusiasm for this “novel” Egyptian art, which so radically broke with the style of the well-known ancient Egyptian artworks in the Neues Museum. The Amarna finds were first shown at the Neues Museum in November of 1913, but without the colourful bust. He later bequeathed it to the Ägyptisches Museum as a permanent loan, along with the other objects from the excavation. Simon initially displayed the bust in his villa on Tiergartenstrasse, where it was first presented to Emperor Wilhelm II. ![]() ![]() Along with the other finds from Amarna unearthed during the excavations of 1911–13 and allotted to the German team, it had entered the collection of James Simon, who had funded the excavations. Today the queen’s likeness stands in the North Dome Room on the second floor, but her museum career began in the Greek Courtyard. With the reopening of the Neues Museum in 2009, the colourful bust of Nefertiti returned to the building in which it was first publicly displayed 85 years earlier. ![]()
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