Museums & galleries in Berlin
A world-class archaeological and Egyptian museum featuring collections of prehistoric artifacts, antiquities, and Ancient Egypt.
One of the largest in Germany, with a collection of over 30 million specimens in zoology, paleontology, and mineralogy.
The largest museum of Jewish history in Europe, located in Germany.
A leading Berlin gallery of contemporary conceptual art, founded in 1991 by Thomas Schulte.
A treasure trove of European painting from the 13th to the 18th centuries, featuring 1,500 masterpieces by Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Vermeer, and Dürer.
A classical museum of ancient art on Berlin’s Museum Island, the first building of the museum complex, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and completed in 1830.
A graceful neoclassical building, completed in 1876 by Friedrich August Stüler. It rises like a temple of art on a grand plinth, with a colonnade and a wide staircase leading into bright halls where 19th-century masterpieces come to life.
A museum specializing in sculpture, Byzantine art, and coins.
An icon of modernism by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Inside, over 20,000 masterpieces of the 20th and 21st centuries come to life — from the Expressionist works of Kirchner to the abstractions of Kandinsky and Malevich.
A popular and interactive museum in Berlin dedicated to everyday life in the German Democratic Republic (1949–1990). Visitors can touch the exhibits — try on clothing, listen to music, and watch TV from that era.
