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The new Gemäldegalerie of Berlin was for me an extraordinary discovery which I visited twice since the opening in 1998.
Among the European galleries with paintings between the 14th and 18th century, I rate the Gemäldegalerie in third position just after the National Gallery of London and the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam. The museum is also very comfortable to visit (no mass tourism yet!).
Some highlights: the Flemish "Primitives" with J. Van Eyck, Van der Weyden and one of the finest portraits of the Flemish school "Portrait of a Young Women" by Petrus Christus (1410-1473) (pic.2).
The Italian renaissance is very well represented mainly with the Florentine and Venetian painters; look at this portrait in profile of a young woman by Domenico Veneziano (1410-1461) (pic.3).
These portraits of women sustain the comparison with "Mona Lisa - La Joconde".
The German school is of course present with Cranach, Dürer, Hollbein, and Altdorfer.
Also a very rich collection of Dutch painters of the 17th c.: two Vermeer's, 16 Rembrandt, Pieter de Hooch, Frans Hals.
The icon of the museum is the famous painting "Dutch Proverbs" (pic. 1) from Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525-1569) (see also my comment on Vienna's KHM room X).
Open 10 - 18 h, Thursday 10 - 22 h. Closed on Monday. Address: Gemäldegalerie, KulturforumDirections: Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz
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The Pergamon Museum is suberb. No arguements. SUPERB!! It features treasures ranging from classical Greek, Babylonian, Roman, Islamic and Middle Eastern art and architecture. The three higlights of the museum are generally considered to be:
1. Market Gate of Miletus - a masterpiece of Roman architecture
2. The Pergamon Altar - from 165BC is a 120m freize of the Gods doing battle with the giants
3. Ishtar Gate - from the Babylonian period between 604-562BC glows luminous with glazed brick tiles in cobalt blue and ochre.
The museum was a very affordable 6 Euro for entry which included audio commentary in many different lagauages for free. Such a great bonus that other museums normally would slog a reasonable sum of $$$$ for. The whole museum is fascinating and as you stroll you try (unsuccessfully) to imagine living in those times and the mind truly boggles. Go there!! You won't regret it Leave a Comment Address: Bodestrasse 1-3Phone: 20 90 55 77Directions: Museum InselWebsite: www.berlin.de Other Contact: ant@smb.spk-berlin.de
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With the 3-day "SchauLUST-MuseenBERLIN" ticket you can visit more than 70 Berlin museums and collections on three consecutive opening days for 15. euros / reduced 7,50 euros. You will have access to the famous buildings of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, including the Pergamon Museum, the Egyptian Museum and Gemaldegalerie (Painting Gallery). You can also visit the museums of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, the German Technology Museum, and many others. You can buy it at InfoStores (there is one at Brandenburger Tor, another at Europa Centre on Budapesterstr. entrance and at the Fernsehturm (TV Tower at Alexanderplatz).
Con el ticket de 3 dias puedes visitar mas de 70 museos y colecciones en tres dias consecutivos por 15 euros (7,50 si tienes precio reducido). Tendras acceso a edificios como el Pergamonmuseum, el Museo Egipcio... entre muchos otros. Puedes comprar el ticket en las InfoStores (hay una en la Puerta de Brandeburgo, otra en el Europa Centre, en la entrada que hay por Budapesterstr. y en el Fernsehturm (Torre de TV en Alexanderplatz)
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The Neue Nationalgalerie could be described as Berlin's equivalent to New York's MOMA - "modernism" in art and sculpture, from Munch and Malevich to Matisse and Magritte. Indeed, when treasures from MOMA visited Berlin in 2004, they were installed here for a record-breaking show.
The Nationalgalerie is housed in a work of art itself, a minimalist Mies van der Rohe barn with a structure profile familiar to anyone who knows his work in Chicago. The entry level is a stark and "pure" space, while the collected is exhibited in galleries underneath. Leave a Comment Address: Potsdamer Strasse 50Directions: a few minutes walk from Potsdamer Platz, and just across the way from the Gemaldegalerie
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Right next door to the Philharmonie, in fact in the same complex of buildings and built in the same style, is the Musical Instrument Museum (Musikinstrumenten-Museum).
Here you can see hundreds of musical instruments from various centuries, and in many cases you can here recordings of these instruments from the "CD-towers" that are placed throughout the building.
The museum is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 9.00 - 17.00, Thursday from 9.00 - 22.00, Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 - 17.00. Closed Mondays. Also closed on the 1st and 16th of May, which are (still) holidays in this part of Germany.
Admission is EUR 3.00, or EUR 1.50 for those who get a reduction. It is free for young people up to the age of 16, and free for everyone on Thursday evenings after 18.00.
Interesting collections of historical musical instruments can also be seen in Nürnberg, Stuttgart and Paris.
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Near by you'll find the Checkpoint Charlie museum which contains the history of the wall as well as photos of and contraptions used for escapes from East Berlin to the West. There's also films documenting the seventy five people who were murdered by the East German border guards while trying to escape. The original “You are now leaving the American sector” signal board is also in the museum – the much-photographed one outside is a copy
The Museum is interesting and well worth a visit.
Open daily 9 a.m.-10 p.m
Admission: 7 euros Leave a Comment Address: Friedrichstrasse 43-45Phone: 030 253 7250
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Berlin's finest collection of Old Masters: Giotto to Goya, with stops at Botticelli, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Canaletto, among others.
The museum is housed in a self-effacing structure which might not put on much of a face to the exterior world, but which offers optimal conditions for viewing the artworks inside.
Caravaggio's "Cupid Victorious" is one of the most famous works in the collections, but there are familiar masterpieces in nearly every room of the gallery.
If you get hungry from encountering art, the museum cafe has an excellent salad bar! Leave a Comment Address: Matthäikirchplatz 8Directions: about a ten minute walk from Potsdamer Platz
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In the constellation of Berlin's remarkable art collections, the Hamburger Bahnhof is the place to see the most provocative works of contemporary artists. Conceptual pieces, performance art, video installations, anti-art manifestos - who knows what you will find here!
When I visited in November 2004, exhibit space in this former train station was entirely given over to display works from the collection of a prominent German publisher, Gustav Flick. It was a controversial exhibit, not so much for the artworks shown, but because of the political heritage of the Flick family. (Old man Flick was tried and convicted for Nazi-era crimes.) Apparently, some critics were saying that the Flick family was trying to "use" art to "rehabilitate" their image.
The Bahnhof reminded me of the Tate Modern in London, another contemporary artspace which was reclaimed from former "industrial" use. The large halls and broad open spaces make the Bahnhof a "fun" place to see what our generation's artists get up to. It was by far the most crowded of all the museums I visited in Berlin.
I have to admit, I don't really care for much contemporary art - it seems like a great deal of intellectual game-playing to me. But I enjoy going to contemporary art galleries: intellectual game-playing can be enjoyable when it is presented in the right manner! Leave a Comment Address: Invalidenstrasse 50/51Directions: open late on Wednesdays and Fridays - till ten p.m.
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The Pergamum Museum was the best of the museums on the island, and one of the most unique in the world. Building on a long tradition of cooperating with the Turks, German archeologists have systematically created one of the best exhibits of the Ancient World with a focus on some of the less extensively treated peoples of old like the Hittites, Ur, and others. The cost to enter isn't much, aroudn ten euros or so, and the museum has two levels. On the lower level you have all the exhibits of the anciets, complete with replica city gates, recreated cities and mammoth stone exhibits, one of which is actually a city wall (shown here in picture number five). The upper level is more of a museum of Islamic Art and, though smaller and much more modest in scope (though still very impressive and includes the city wall), is of interest as well. Leave a Comment Address: Museum InselDirections: On Museum Island
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If you're like me, you can't imagine going to Berlin without seeing the most famous Egyptian in art history, Nefertiti. For the time being - until all of Berlin's Egyptian treasures are gathered together at the Neues Museum on the Museum Island - Nefertiti is out in the 'burbs, at the Egyptian Museum across the street from the Schloss Scharlottenburg. She's well worth the visit. The Egyptian Museum is rather small, but the items is does have on display are among the most interesting you'll see anywhere - and of course, Nefertiti herself is unforgettable. Leave a Comment Address: Schlossstrasse 70Directions: You might take the U-2 line out to Sophie-Charlotte Platz and then take a bus the short distance up Schlossstrasse - or do the 15 minute walk on your own.
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