The Kerch Crown — sple­ndour from Eu­ro­pe’s ear­ly days

Ex­tra­or­di­na­ry tre­asu­res can curr­ent­ly be ad­mi­red at the Neu­es Mu­se­um Ber­lin: the spe­cial ex­hi­bi­ti­on “The Crown of Kerch — Tre­asu­res from Eu­ro­pe’s Ear­ly Pe­ri­od” pres­ents gold je­wel­lery from the Black Sea du­ring the Mi­gra­ti­on Pe­ri­od, sil­ver clasps and ma­gni­fi­cent belts from ear­ly me­dieval gra­ves. The­se tre­asu­res on­ce be­lon­ged to the coll­ec­tion of the coll­ec­tor Jo­han­nes von Dier­gardt, which is be­ing shown in Ber­lin for the first time in over 80 ye­ars.

One par­ti­cu­lar high­light is the dia­dem of a no­ble la­dy, which was found in a gra­ve in Kerch, the an­ci­ent Pan­ti­ka­pai­on in the Cri­mea. The­se uni­que ex­hi­bits pro­vi­de a fa­sci­na­ting in­sight in­to the pe­ri­od of uphe­aval bet­ween an­ti­qui­ty and the Midd­le Ages. The ex­hi­bi­ti­on was crea­ted in col­la­bo­ra­ti­on wi­th the Ro­ma­no-Ger­ma­nic Mu­se­um in Co­lo­gne, who­se re­mo­del­ling en­ab­led the tem­po­ra­ry re­turn of the coll­ec­tion to Ber­lin. The show in­vi­tes vi­si­tors to re­dis­co­ver Eu­ro­pean histo­ry and trace the con­nec­tions across re­gi­ons and eras.