Please note: The Gemäldegalerie will remain closed due to an event on Thursday, 23 January 2025. We ask for your understanding.

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Paintings from the 13th to 18th Century

Permanent exhibition
Gemäldegalerie

The Gemäldegalerie possesses one of the world's finest collections of European art from the 13th to 18th century. After the collection was founded in 1830, it was systematically built up and perfected. The exhibition includes masterpieces by artists from every age of art history such as van Eyck, Bruegel, Dürer, Raphael, Tizian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Vermeer and Rembrandt.

This newly built museum is situated at the Kulturforum. It has about 7,000 square metres of exhibition space. A complete tour of the 72 rooms covers almost two kilometres. Two of the major sections are formed by Italian painting from the 13th to 16th century and Netherlandish painting of the 15th and 16th century.

Old German painting of the Late Gothic and Renaissance eras is represented by such great masters as Konrad Witz, Albrecht Dürer, Baldung Grien, Cranach and Holbein. The octagonal Rembrandt room enjoys a key position at the heart of the museum. The sixteen works by this artist form one of the largest and highest quality collections of Rembrandt paintings. They are flanked by additional gems of Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th century. Portraits, genre paintings, interiors, landscapes and still-lifes illustrate certain artists' preferences for particular types of themes.

Italian, French, German and English painting of the 18th century is presented in six rooms. This splendid collection of paintings includes works by Canaletto, Watteau, Pesne and Gainsborough. Around 1,000 masterpieces are exhibited in the main gallery.

As an information service, visitors can take advantage of acoustic guided tours in German, English, French and Italian.


A permanent exhibition of the Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker
Gemäldegalerie | third party tour

Gemäldegalerie
Guided tour by third parties

In der Gemäldegalerie
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker
Gemäldegalerie | group reservation

Gemäldegalerie
Reservation for group visits

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Botticelli, Caravaggio, and Rembrandt | Guided Tour

Gemäldegalerie
Guided tour (60 min)

Talk in the Gemäldegalerie
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt
Giovanni Bellini, The Dead Christ Supported by Two Angels, detail, c. 1470–75 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
Event at Neues Museum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Marcus Glahn
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Marcus Glahn
The new lighting system in the Gemäldegalerie
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / David von Becker
Jan Vermeer van Delft, Woman with a Pearl Necklace, detail, ca. 1662/65
Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
The Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum / Wolfgang Gülcker
Screenshot des 360-Grad-Rundgangs durch die Gemäldegalerie
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Wolfgang Gülcker
Table telephone set, Zwietusch, manufacturer, 1930s, place of use: Berlin
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia
Johannes Vermeer, Woman with a Pearl Necklace, 1663/63 (detail)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Johannes Vermeer, Woman with a Pearl Necklace, 1663/63 (detail)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Rembrandt-Werkstatt, Esther, 1630-35
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Heinz Kuckei Collections
Jan Vermeer van Delft, Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace, c. 1662/65, acquired 1874 with the B. Suermondt Collection
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt
Olfert de Vrij, Three-Master on Lightly Moving Sea, detail, 1665, after restoration
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

02.12.2022 to 16.04.2023

Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin

wheelchair accessible

U-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
S-Bahn: Potsdamer Platz
Bus: Potsdamer Brücke, Potsdamer Platz Bhf / Voßstraße, Kulturforum, Philharmonie

Sun 10:00 - 18:00
Mon closed
Tue 10:00 - 18:00
Wed 10:00 - 18:00
Thu 10:00 - 18:00
Fri 10:00 - 18:00
Sat 10:00 - 18:00

Special opening hours during public holidays
Please note: Due to an event the Gemäldegalerie will remain closed on Thursday, 23 January 2025.

Old Master Paintings Paintings from the 13th to 18th century
12,00 EUR Concessions 6,00
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