Berlin · Germany

Neue Nationalgalerie

Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel modernist landmark houses major 20th-century art at the Kulturforum.

Neue Nationalgalerie DBSculpture · CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical visit
2 hours
Setting
Indoor
Region
Berlin and Brandenburg
Last checked
13 Sep 2026

Why visit

Mies van der Rohe’s glass-and-steel modernist landmark houses major 20th-century art at the Kulturforum.

What you will see

  • Mies van der Rohe architecture.
  • 20th-century art.
  • Sculpture garden.

History

Completed in the late 1960s, the building became one of the defining museum designs of post-war modernism and was recently comprehensively restored.

Photographs

DBSculpture · CC BY-SA 4.0 · full attribution on the image credits page.

Visitor tips

  1. 1

    Combine with Gemäldegalerie if you want a focused art day.

  2. 2

    The building is worth seeing even for architecture-focused visitors.

About Berlin and Brandenburg

Capital landmarks, Prussian palace landscapes and the waterways of Brandenburg.

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