ART GALLERIES
1. Gemäldegalerie
Berlin’s best art museum, the Gemäldegalerie holds European art of the 13th–19th centuries, including Vermeer’s The Glass of Wine and The Adoration of the Shepherds by Hugo van der Goes, as well as works by Rembrandt, Dürer, Caravaggio and Rubens.
Johannes Vermeer’s The Glass of Wine
2. Brücke-Museum
Bussardsteig 9 • Open 11am–5pm Wed–Mon • Adm • www.bruecke-museum.de
Must-see collection of German Expressionist works by the Brücke (bridge) movement, including Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, Nolde, and Pechstein. Many Brücke works were labelled "degenerate" by the Nazis and destroyed.
3. Alte Nationalgalerie
The Old National Gallery (see Alte Nationalgalerie), built by Friedrich August Stüler in 1866–76, holds a collection of 19th-century, mainly German paintings, including works by Max Liebermann, Wilhelm Leibl, Adolf von Menzel and Arnold Böcklin. It also houses sculptures by Schadow, Rauch and Reinhold Begas, and is one of the many museums set in a complex called Museuminsel on an island in the Spree River.
4. Museum Berggruen
The late Heinz Berggruen, born in Berlin in 1914, emigrated to the US in 1936 but returned to Berlin in 1996. His collection, including works from Picasso’s Blue Period, is based in a historic Charlottenburg building (see Museum Berggruen) by Stüler.
Museum Berggruen
5. Hamburger Bahnhof
The historic Hamburg Station houses modern paintings, installations and multimedia art. Former dispatch warehouses were converted and linked to the old railway building, forming the Rieckhallen, and doubling the exhibition space. A highlight is the Erich Marx Collection, with works by Joseph Beuys. Apart from famous artists like Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Robert Rauschenberg, it also owns works by Anselm Kiefer, Sandro Chiao and others.
6. Kunsthaus Dahlem
Käuzchensteig 8 • Open 11am–5pm Wed–Mon • Adm • www.kunsthaus-dahlem.de
This exhibition venue for postwar German Modernism from East and West Germany was built during 1939–42 for sculptor Arno Breker. The building was used by US Information Control Division after the war and later became a workspace for artists.
7. C/O Berlin
Amerika-Haus, Hardenbergstr. 22–24 • Open 11am–8pm daily • www.co-berlin.org
Located in the former Amerika-Haus, this venue hosts regularly changing exhibitions, lectures and historic and contemporary photography events.
8. Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstr. 124–128 • Open 10am–6pm Wed–Mon • Adm • www.berlinischegalerie.de
On display here are huge collections of German, east European and Russian painters, photographers, graphic designers and architects from the 20th century.
9. Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Schlossstr. 70 • Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun • Adm • www.smb.museum
This gallery has rare works by surrealists and their forerunners, such as Goya, Klee, Dalí, Max Ernst and Man Ray.
10. Bröhan-Museum
Schlossstr. 1a • Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun • Adm (free 1st Wed of month) • www.broehan-museum.de
Jugendstil and Art Deco objects from around Europe, and paintings by Berlin artists, are on display in this design and art museum.
Impressive exterior of the Bröhan-Museum
