Neue Nationalgalerie Is Berlin’s Most Visited Art Museum in 2025

**Neue Nationalgalerie, exterior view, Festival of Future Nows 2025** © Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Ivan Erofeev

Neue Nationalgalerie Is Berlin’s Most Visited Art Museum with around 600,000 Visitors in 2025

29.12.2025
Neue Nationalgalerie

With around 600,000 visitors in 2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie is once again Berlin’s most visited art museum. Together with the current international exhibition tours, the Neue Nationalgalerie reached over 1.3 million visitors worldwide in 2025.

Special Exhibitions

With successful special exhibitions by Yoko Ono, Lygia Clark, Fujiko Nakaya, Nan Goldin and currently Christian Marclay, the Neue Nationalgalerie has enjoyed consistently high visitor numbers in Berlin this year. Exhibitions such as Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection, Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin, and the regularly updated collection presentation Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000 also attracted numerous visitors.

With over 4,000 educational and outreach programs alone, the Neue Nationalgalerie reached over 46,000 participants, including more than 12,000 schoolchildren and students.

The Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg in Berlin-Charlottenburg welcomed around 40,000 visitors in 2025.

International Exhibition Tours

The ongoing international exhibition tours of the Neue Nationalgalerie are also very popular:

After reaching well over half a million people in previous years with masterpieces from the Museum Berggruen’s collection, the tour has so far attracted around 620,000 visitors in 2025 at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra and, currently, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. The tour will continue in 2026 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston.

The exhibition Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945. Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, touring the United States, has attracted over 54,000 visitors at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and currently at the Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico. In 2026, the tour will continue at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, and the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum in Denmark.

Outlook for 2026

From 20 March to 9 August 2026, the Neue Nationalgalerie, in cooperation with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will present the first comprehensive exhibition of French sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Germany in over 50 years.
From 11 September 2026 to 21 February 2027, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan will be honoured with the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie and will be represented for the first time with a comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany.
The special exhibition Abstraction as Resistance? The Other German Art of the 1930s, curated in collaboration with author Florian Illies, will take place from 30 October 2026 to 31 January 2027 to artists who continued or developed their work in Nazi Germany despite artistic defamation and exhibition bans.
The popular fog sculpture by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya will once again be on display in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie from 30 April to 1 November 2026.

Exhibitions

YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER
11.04.2025 to 14.09.2025

Lygia Clark: Retrospective
23.05.2025 to 12.10.2025

Fujiko Nakaya
02.05.2025 to 19.10.2025

Nan Goldin
23.11.2024 to 06.04.2025

Christian Marclay. The Clock
29.11.2025 to 25.01.2026

Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism
17.10.2025 to 08.04.2026

Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin
Permanent exhibition

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
18.11.2023 to 25.04.2027

Brancusi
20.03.2026 to 09.08.2026

News overview