The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule

But they didn’t. The reconstruction has failed to meet any of its original deadlines or budgets, and is still far from finished after more than twice Mr Schröder’s target time-span has elapsed. In fact, after decades of snafus, work on renovating the Pergamon Museum, the jewel in the Museum Island crown with its first-class collection of ancient near-eastern, Hellenistic and Islamic art, only started last year.