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Description
Essentials about the Alte Nationalgalerie in brief
The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) is one of the most famous art museums in Berlin and the parent building of the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery), whose collection is spread across other buildings. Built between 1867 and 1876 in the style of late classicism and neo-Renaissance, the imposing building is reminiscent of an ancient temple. It belongs to the ensemble of the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) and is thus part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The history of the Alte Nationalgalerie
The reason for the construction of a National Gallery was the donation of the banker and consul Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, who had bequeathed his collection of works by Caspar David Friedrich, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Düsseldorf School of Painting and Belgian history painting to the Prussian state in his will and died in 1861. Wagener wished to present the collection to the public “in a suitable venue” and to develop it into a national gallery. In 1876, the Nationalgalerie was finally ceremoniously opened as the third museum on the Spree Island.
The collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie
On display in the Alte Nationalgalerie are works of Classicism, Romanticism, Biedermeier, Impressionism, and early Modernism, including works by Édouard Manet, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Cézanne, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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Phone
+49 30 266 424242
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Opening hours
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
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closed | 10 am – 6 pm | 10 am – 6 pm | 10 am – 8 pm | 10 am – 6 pm | 10 am – 6 pm | 10 am – 6 pm |
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Admission fees
Alte Nationalgalerie:
Adults: €10.00
Concessions: €5.00
Museum Island all exhibitions:
Adults: €18.00
Concessions: €9.00
Museum Pass Berlin 3-day ticket:
Adults: €29.00
Concessions: €14.50
For further information on the annual season tickets of the National Museums in Berlin, see the website.
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Address
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Getting there
By public transport:
U6: Stop Friedrichstraße
S1, S2, S3, S5, S7 and S9: Stop Friedrichstraße
S3, S5, S7 and S9: Stop Hackescher Markt
Tram lines 12 and M1: Stop Georgenstr./Am Kupfergraben
Tram lines 12, M1, M4, M5, M6 and M8: Stop Hackescher Markt
Bus line M1: Stop Georgenstr./Am Kupfergraben
Bus lines M1, N2, N5, N8, N40, N42 and N65: Stop Hackescher Markt
Bus lines 100, 245 and 300: Stop Lustgarten
By car:
The nearest parking garages is Parkhaus Dorotheenstraße.
Photos: Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de, Alte Nationalgalerie abends (Zuschnitt), CC BY-SA 3.0 / Bärwinkel,Klaus, Alte Nationalgalerie 2, CC BY 3.0
Texts: Individual pieces of content and information from Wikipedia DE and Wikipedia EN under the Creative-Commons-Lizenz Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
English version: Machine translation by DeepL