Museum Quarters
Berlin's centres for the arts
How can you keep track of all the museums in Berlin? This article, which presents the Museum Island, the Kulturforum and the area around Charlottenburg Palace, offers an initial orientation. How do you get there? What is there to see where? Where is the best place to take a break?
Rural Dahlem
Out of the city centre and into the village of Dahlem: there is still a lot to discover here that you won't see anywhere else. The Museum of European Cultures, the Brücke Museum and the Kunsthaus Dahlem are all located here.
The Museum Island
Built between 1830 and 1930, this ensemble of world-famous museums, comprising Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, Bode-Museum and the Pergamonmuseum, displays six thousand years of culture and history from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to Classical Antiquity to 19th Century European art.
Kulturforum and Potsdamer Platz
The museums clustered in and around the Kulturforum offer a wide range of artistic forms and media, including paintings, drawings, prints and decorative art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
Around Charlottenburg Palace
Charlottenburg Palace is at the centre of its own museum quarter. The former garrison buildings opposite house the Museum Berggruen, the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg featuring Surrealist art, and the Bröhan-Museum.