The Costs of Unity

With the reunification of the Staatliche Museen, admission began to be charged for the first time in the Western sector of the city. Except for on Sundays and public holidays, from July of 1992, visitors were charged 4 DM admission at all 17 museums and collections. As a consequence, the Galerie der Romantik and the Ägyptisches Museum, which had previously been big crowd-pullers for Charlottenburg, suffered a significant downturn in visitor numbers. People who might have wanted to visit the Galerie der Romantik after visiting the Museum für Vorgeschichte (both of which were located in Schloss Charlottenburg) generally refused to pay a second entry fee. As a result, many of the bus companies that used to bring their passengers to visit the museums for free also stopped coming.