First opened in 1830, the Gemäldegalerie has one of the world’s most renowned collections of classical European painting. Created from the treasures of the Prussian royalty, including that of Frederick the Great, the gallery was initially housed on Museum Island. Some of the works were sadly damaged by Allied bombing during WWII and the city’s division during the Cold War resulted in the splitting of the collection between East and West. The fall of the Berlin Wall brought the two halves of the collection together again and its new home is in the Kulturforum, just west of the redeveloped Potsdamer Platz.

Seventy two rooms, comprising 7,000 square feet of exhibition space, offer many of the great treasures of European painting, including works by Bruegel, Dürer, Raphael, Rubens, Vermeer and many others.