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For the reopening of the Pergamon Museum Berlin, two new models are being prepared in the Hall of the Great Altar to replace the old models that previously stood at the foot of the stairs. The first is the model of the altar itself, which shows it in its actual spatial arrangement, i.e. not as the elements of the frieze of the giants as they are displayed on the wall of the great hall, and the second is a section of the city mountain, which, unlike before, will make it clear that almost the entire mountain was covered with buildings. In addition, it will reflect the current state of science, nominally the year 2023, and will also be executed as a tactile model. On a scale of 1:333, which may be unusual but is nevertheless customary in architecture, it will depict the hilltop around the altar, so that the altar itself will be at the centre of the model. Unlike before, the model will be placed in the room in such a way that all three altars, the life-size reconstruction, the isolated altar model and the city hill, will be in the same orientation, i.e. the lines of the buildings will be parallel to each other. Apart from the technical conversion of the surface model used for the visualisations into a volume model, the implementation as a tactile model represents the greatest creative challenge. For here, in the existing production process, milled, not printed, both the milling machine's movement capabilities and the resistance to destructive forces have to be weighed against the visual scientific-spatial expression.