The Akademie der Künste was founded by Prince Friedrich III in 1696, and is one of the oldest cultural institutions in Berlin. By 1938, however, the Nazis had forced virtually...
Hanseatenweg 10Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, designed the elegant white building that now houses this absorbing design museum. The permanent exhibition presents furniture,...
Klingelhöferstrasse 13-14As 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...
Alte Potsdamer Strasse 5Opened in 1968 with her collection of critical realists from the '60s, Eva Poll's beautiful gallery includes, among others, Sabina Grzimek, Peter Sorge and Peter Chevalier....
Lützowplatz 7The 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...
Stauffenbergstrasse 40The 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...
Invalidenstrasse 50-51Although exhibits were held in this building as early as 1949, the non-profit society that has occupied it since the early 1960s maintains a pledge to present works by both...
Lützowplatz 9Set 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,...
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10The Museum of Decorative Art contains a frustrating collection of European arts and crafts, stretching from the Middle Ages through Renaissance, baroque and rococo to...
KulturforumDesigned in the 1960s by Mies van der Rohe, the New National Gallery houses German and international paintings from the 20th century. It's strong on expressionism: there are...
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