Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin

The Ishtar Gate and Procession Way of Babylon are the centrepiece of the Near East Museum (Vorderasiatisches Museum), which also displays parts of the Eanna temple and Karaindash's temple to Inanna from Uruk. It occupies the south wing of the Pergamon Museum and holds one of the world's largest collections of Southwest Asian art.

Fourteen halls span six millennia, from Neolithic finds of the 6th millennium BCE to the Muslim conquests. The emphasis is on Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, northern Syria and eastern Anatolia. Much of the material comes from excavations at Uruk, Assur, Hattusha, Tell Halaf and Babylon. Visitors interested in early writing will find stamp and cylinder seals, cuneiform texts and more than 200 Amarna letters. The collection also includes the larger fragment of the Sippar tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which contains Siduri's advice.

The collection began as a department of the royal museums in 1899. It has been on public view in the Pergamon Museum since 1930 and reopened under its current name in 1953.