Gemäldegalerie
One of Europe's great Old Masters collections — Dürer, Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Caravaggio housed at the Kulturforum, with far shorter queues than any equivalent gallery in Paris, London or Rome.
Neue Nationalgalerie
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel modernist temple at the Kulturforum, restored by David Chipperfield — one of the most significant single buildings of 20th-century architecture, housing 20th-century art.
Alte Nationalgalerie
A temple-like gallery on Museum Island devoted to 19th-century art — German Romanticism, French Impressionism and Caspar David Friedrich's most famous landscapes under one roof.
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
A townhouse gallery near Ku'damm devoted to one of Germany's most powerful graphic artists — Käthe Kollwitz's stark depictions of grief, poverty and war remain some of the most affecting works in Berlin.
Brücke Museum
The world's only museum dedicated entirely to Die Brücke, the pioneering German Expressionist group — set in a quiet, purpose-built 1967 building in the leafy Dahlem district.
C/O Berlin
A leading independent photography exhibition space inside the historic Amerika Haus near Zoo Station, showing major international photographers on a constantly rotating programme.
Sammlung Boros (Boros Collection)
A private contemporary art collection displayed across five floors of a WWII bunker in Mitte — tickets are guided-tour-only and sell out six to eight weeks ahead, making this one of Berlin's hardest reservations.
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Berlin's contemporary art museum inside a converted 1847 railway terminus — Warhol, Beuys, Rauschenberg and Anselm Kiefer housed in a soaring former train shed near the Museum für Naturkunde.
Berlinische Galerie
Berlin's state museum for modern art, photography and architecture since 1870 — a converted glass warehouse in Kreuzberg tracing the city's own art history, from Dada to Neue Sachlichkeit to today.
East Side Gallery
The world's longest open-air gallery — 1.3 kilometres of the former Berlin Wall painted by 118 artists from 21 countries in the euphoric months after the Wall fell, including the famous 'Fraternal Kiss' mural.
Museum für Fotografie (Helmut Newton Foundation)
A neoclassical former officers' casino near Zoo Station holding the Helmut Newton Foundation's provocative fashion photography alongside the Kunstbibliothek's broader historic photography collection.