 The collection had already opened again as the "Vorderasiatisches Museum" in 1953.

Notable pieces of the collection are the Ishtar Gate and Procession Way of Babylon, remainders of the ancient city of Babylon, parts of the Eanna temple and Karaindash's temple to Inanna in Uruk.The museum also has an important number of Southwest Asian stamp and cylinder seals, as well as cuneiform texts.It has more than 200 of the Amarna letters and the larger ("Meissner") fragment ("VAT 4105") of the Sippar tablet from the "Epic of Gilgamesh", which includes Siduri's advice, unlike later editions of the epic.