The German museum world
Cologne/Düsseldorf
A wealth of art – along the Rhine: In Cologne, Museum Ludwig has 8,000 m2 of space dedicated to contemporary art and trail-blazing exhibitions. A few miles away, Kunsthalle Nordrhein- Westfalen in Düsseldorf takes up two buildings – with key works from Picasso to Beuys.
www.museum-ludwig.de (in German)
Bonn
Museum mile: Close to the history museum is the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, which showcases regular exhibition events that catch the international eye.
Frankfurt am Main
Bank metropolis and art center: The Städel and the Liebieghaus on the banks of the Main are dedicated mainly to the painting and sculpture of yore. Museum für Moderne Kunst displays the latest art in the keenly angled building created by Hans Hollein.
Stuttgart
Linking old and new: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, founded in the 19th century, caused a stir with the extension wing designed by British star architect James Stirling. The museum offers an overview of art from the late Middle Ages to Classical Modernism.
Hamburg
Since 1997 the venerable Hamburger Kunsthalle has displayed its wide-ranging collection of contemporary art in the new wing created by Oswald Mathias Ungers: a plain white cube. In the “Galerie der Gegenwart” large complexes of works by a single artist alternate with presentations on movements in art.
Berlin
Capital of the Arts: Berlin’s Museum Island brings together numerous leading world collections of art, culture and archaeology in marvelous historical buildings. Modern art, by contrast, is at home in Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum Berggruen and Berlinische Galerie.
Dresden
From Raphael to Richter: the Alte Meister gallery in the Zwinger presents key paintings from the Italian Renaissance. The Neue Meister gallery has the world’s largest collection of works by Gerhard Richter and is one of Germany’s leading museums for Modernist art.
Munich
The most recent addition to the art complex: In 2002, Pinakothek der Moderne opened its doors. It is also home to Die Neue Sammlung, the first and still one of the leading design museums in the world, which features a permanent collection of 70,000 exhibits. Together with the collections in Alte and Neue Pinakothek, the Glyptothek and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, the complex constitutes a unique museum quarter.
www.pinakothek.de (in German)
source: Facts about Germany
