Gemäldegalerie
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Why go
- The octagonal gallery devoted to Rembrandt.
- Five different Madonnas by Raphael in one room.
- Vermeer’s The Wine Glass and Woman with a Pearl Necklace.
- Caravaggio’s Amor Victorious beside Baglione’s Sacred Love Versus Profane Love.
Opening hours
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Don't miss
- 5–7–9 SerieWalter de Maria’s fountain installation arranges polygonal steel columns in groups of five, seven and nine in a shallow pool.In the central hall.
Know before you go
- Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00.
- Tickets can be bought online on the museum’s own site.
What's inside
- The main floor has about 850 works across 53 rooms, with around 400 more downstairs.
- The galleries follow a broadly chronological order from the entrance. Mainly Italian art is on the left; German and Flemish art is on the right.
- The central hall provides a place to sit and a shortcut between galleries.
- A gallery devoted to frames and a digital gallery are downstairs.
- The cross-gallery links both sides and displays 17th- and 18th-century Dutch, German, French and English paintings.
- Further strengths include 17th-century Flemish painting and miniatures from the 16th–19th centuries.
- Since the Bode-Museum opened in 2006, 150 paintings have also been displayed there alongside its sculpture collection.
Tips for your visit
- Use the cross-gallery to move between the two sides. It contains Dutch, German, French and English paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- A full circuit covers almost two kilometres.
Interesting facts3
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3,000 paintings
The collection holds more than 3,000 paintings.
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7,000 square
The building has about 7,000 square metres of exhibition space across 72 rooms.
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32 glass
The central hall has 32 glass cupolas that admit daylight.
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History
Conceived from the outset around art-historical principles, the collection gained international renown through Wilhelm von Bode’s acquisitions after he joined the museum in 1872. During World War II, most paintings survived in shelters despite severe damage to the museum. Later restitutions included a Tiepolo painting in 1999, two Giovanni di Paolo panels in 2019 and a Hans Baldung Grien painting in 2020.
- 1797Aloys Hirt proposed a public museum of European art history.
- 1815The Prussian government began acquiring paintings for the collection.
- 1821The gallery acquired paintings from English merchant Edward Solly’s collection.
- 1830The collection opened to the public in the Altes Museum.
- 1872Wilhelm von Bode joined the museum and helped build the gallery’s international reputation.
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- 1904The collection moved to the newly built Kaiser Friedrich Museum, now the Bode Museum.
- 1945A fire in a flak tower destroyed 400 oversized works.
- 1948Berlin’s political division split the collection between East and West.
- 1992East and West Berlin’s museum administrations reunited; the paintings were brought together in the new building in 1998.
- 1998The current building opened, bringing together works from Dahlem and the Kaiser Friedrich Museum.
- 1999The gallery returned a Tiepolo painting to Federico Gentili di Giuseppe’s heirs.
- 2019The gallery returned two Giovanni di Paolo panels to Harry Fuld Senior’s heirs.
- 2020The gallery returned a Hans Baldung Grien painting to Hans Purrmann’s heirs.
Sources: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Wikipedia · Berlin/Mitte - Wikivoyage (see) · Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) - Wikipedia · Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) - Wikipedia · checked 29 Sep 2026
- Phone
- 030 266424242
Questions and answers
Can I buy tickets to the Gemäldegalerie online?
Yes, through the museum’s own website.
Who operates the Gemäldegalerie?
It is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Are any Gemäldegalerie paintings displayed at another museum?
Another 150 paintings are displayed at the Bode-Museum alongside its sculpture collection.
Was the Gemäldegalerie collection formed mainly from royal holdings?
No. The Prussian government began acquiring paintings for it in 1815; it was not formed mainly from a former royal collection.
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