The Bode Museum on Museum Island in Berlin is home to one of the world’s largest collections of ancient sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins. The Bode Museum in Berlin displays one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of European sculptures from the Middle Ages, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and neo-Classical periods. It also includes the Museum … Read more
Tickets for the large national state museum in Berlin are easily bought online with time slot reservations sensible but usually not essential except for the top museums and most popular exhibitions.
Opening hours for the Berlin state museums and national galleries are changing from mid-April 2024.
The state museums and national galleries in Berlin display some of the world’s top art and cultural collections.
Buy time-slot reservation tickets online for the Neues Museum in Berlin to see the bust of Queen Nefertiti and other items from early and pre-history.
Caravaggio’s Amor Victorious is the top Italian painting in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin but other top works are by Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Titian, Raphael, Canaletto, and Tiepolo.
Caravaggio’s Amor Triumphant, two paintings by Vermeer, and 16 by Rembrandt are among the top art highlights in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
The Gemäldegalerie (Paintings Gallery) in Berlin is one of the world’s best collections of Old Master paintings — the top art museum highlight in Germany.
The Altes Museum has Germany’s most impressive collection of classical Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities.
The Greek-temple-inspired Alte Nationalgalerie is home to Berlin’s vast collection of 19th century art.
Tickets for the Caspar David Friedrich — Infinite Landscapes (Unendliche Landschaften) in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin are selling out fast – longer opening hours were announced.
Pergamonmuseum Das Panorama allows visitors a close-up view of sculptures and reliefs from the Pergamon Altar and Yadegar Asisi’s panoramic painting in Berlin. Das Panorama is a special temporary exhibition in Berlin showing some of the sculptures and frieze reliefs of the Pergamon Altar while the Hellenic section of the Pergamon Museum remains closed for … Read more
Around 70 paintings by Frans Hals are on display in special exhibitions in Berlin, London, and Amsterdam in 2023 and 2024. Tickets are cheapest for the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
In 2024, the Berlin state museums and national galleries will stage several temporary exhibitions to complement the astonishingly good permanent collections.
In 2024, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin has special exhibitions of Modernist art saved from destruction in the 1930s, original Impressionist prints, and drawings of Renaissance Rome. In 2024, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin’s Kulturforum will stage several special temporary exhibitions of prints, drawings, and other graphic art on paper. The Rescued Modernism exhibition shows some of … Read more
Art from the second half of the 20th century and Josephine Baker are the top exhibitions in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2024.
Visit Berlin in 2024 to see special solo exhibitions by modern artists and new permanent displays in the Hamburger Bahnhof National Gallery of Contemporary Art (Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart). In 2024, the Hamburger Bahnhof National Galerie der Gegenwart — the premier contemporary art museum in Berlin — will present seven solo exhibitions featuring a wide range … Read more
The Pergamon Museum in Berlin is closed from 23 October 2023 until a partly reopening in mid-2027 — some top items will be displayed in other museums and venues. Berlin’s Pergamonmuseum on the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) closed completely to visitors on 23 October 2023. Some items are on display elsewhere but the first section of the … Read more
The Pergamon Museum with its Greek temple from antiquity, the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, and Islamic art is the most popular museum in Berlin. The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island is the most-visited museum in Berlin. The museum covers architectural structures from classical antiquity, important items from the ancient Near East, and one of the … Read more
In 2023, special temporary exhibitions in the Berlin Museum of Photography feature works for children, documenting the holocaust, and photos by Helmut Newton and Alice Springs. Special exhibitions in the Museum of Photography (Museum für Fotografie) in Berlin in 2023 will include as usual a selection of photos by Helmut Newton and Alice Springs but … Read more
