Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, designed the elegant white building that now houses this absorbing design museum. The permanent exhibition presents furniture,...

Built by Berlin architect Ernst Eberhard von Ihne in 1904, the Bode Museum reopened after a thorough renovation in 2006. It was originally intended by Wilhelm von Bode as a...

This quiet, private museum is made up of three well-laid-out levels of international art nouveau and art deco pieces that businessman Karl Bröhan began collecting in the 1960s...

This small but satisfying museum is dedicated to the work of Die Brücke ('The Bridge'), a group of expressionist painters that was founded in Dresden in 1905 before later...

As you'd expect, Daimler's collection is serious stuff. It has stuck to the 20th century, and covers abstract, conceptual and minimal art; its collection numbers around 1,300...

In partnership with the Deutsche Bank (and housed in one of its buildings), this is the least impressive European branch of the Guggenheim. The modest exhibition space was...

The Picture Gallery's first-rate early European collection features a healthy selection of the biggest names in Western art. Although many fine Italian, Spanish and English...

Georg Kolbe's former studio has been transformed into a showcase for his work. The Berlin sculptor, regarded as Germany's best in the 1920s, mainly focused on naturalistic...

The Hamburg Station Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1997 within a huge and expensive refurbishment of a former railway station. The exterior features a stunning...

Set up in 1989 to promote art from developing countries, the 'House of World Cultures' mounts spectacular large-scale exhibitions on subjects such as contemporary Indian art,...

Käthe Kollwitz's powerful, deeply empathetic work embraces the full spectrum of life, from the joy of motherhood to the pain of death (with rather more emphasis on the latter...

The Museum of Decorative Art contains a frustrating collection of European arts and crafts, stretching from the Middle Ages through Renaissance, baroque and rococo to...

Heinz Berggruen was an early dealer in Picassos in Paris, and the subtitle of this museum, Picasso und seine Zeit (Picasso and his Time), sums up this satisfying and important...

Shortly before his death in 2004, Berlin-born Helmut Newton, who served his apprenticeship elsewhere in Charlottenburg at the studio of Yva (now the Hotel Bogota), donated over...