The Neues Museum (New Museum) is one of the most important museums in Berlin. It is part of the so-called "Museum Island" and was founded in 1859 to house part of the vast collection of the Altes Museum (old museum). Following this new reconstitution, the two museums took on the current names that distinguish them. The museum building was built to a design by Friedrich August Stueler between 1843 and 1855. Built in the neoclassical style, it consists of three exhibition floors decorated by important artists of the time and joined by an imposing circular staircase. During the Second World War, the building was heavily damaged and it was only in the 1980s that it was decided to redevelop the site with a major restoration, completed in 2009, the year in which the museum reopened to the public. The museum brings together three vast collections: the Egyptian Museum and the Papyrus Collection (Ägyptischen Museum und Papyrussammlung), which includes objects from ancient Egypt and Nubian cultures of four millennia. This collection includes the "Bust of Nefertiti", one of the most famous works within the entire museum collection and one of its main attractions; the Museum for Prehistory and Ancient History (Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte), which covers six millennia of archaeological finds mostly from Europe and the Near East, spanning a time span from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages; o objects from the collection of classical antiquities (Antikensammlung), although the most important part is exhibited at the Altes Museum and the Pergamonmuseum.