Bust of Nefertiti returns to newly restored Neues Museum

The ancient Egyptian bust of Queen Nefertiti has been moved back to the Berlin museum which exhibited it before the Second World War, culture officials said Monday.

The Neues Museum where it was exhibited was wrecked when the Red Army invaded Berlin in 1945, but the limestone bust had been placed two years previously in safe storage in a salt mine.

Located on Museum Island between two arms of a river, the Neues Museum has now been restored at a cost of 200 million euros (292 million dollars).

A spokeswoman said the bust, previously exhibited in the neighbouring Altes Museum, was shifted Sunday amid high security and would remain in its packaging for several days while it acclimatized to the new air. It is to go back on public display on October 17.

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Tags: Altes Museum, Berlin, Neues Museum, World War II

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