With its ceiling and wall paintings, fabric wallpapers and marble staircase, the Old National Gallery is a sparkling home to one of the largest collections of 19th-century art...

Opened as the Royal Museum in 1830, the Old Museum originally housed all the art treasures on Museumsinsel. It was designed by Schinkel and is considered one of his finest...

The original Anti-War Museum was founded in 1925 by Ernst Friedrich, author of War Against War. In 1933, it was destroyed by the Nazis, and Friedrich fled to Brussels. There he...

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

The three floors of this collection (housed above a flagship Beate-Uhse retail outlet offering the usual videos and sex toys) contain oriental prints; some daft showroom-dummy...

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...

Brecht's home from 1948 until his death in 1953 has been preserved exactly as he left it. Tours of the house (phone in advance for an English one) give interesting insights...

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...

Bright blue neon signage and a Trabant in the window welcome you into 'one of Europe's most interactive museums!' This is 'Ostalgia' in action. Touch screens, sound effects and...

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...

Both this church and the Französischer Dom were built in 1780-85 by Carl von Gontard for Frederick the Great, in imitation of Santa Maria in Montesanto and Santa Maria dei...

The permanent exhibition in the Zeughaus finally opened in July 2006 and provides an exhaustive blast through German history from 100BC to the present day, divided...