Hamburger Bahnhof

Description: Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present - Berlin, Invalidenstrasse 50-51, Berlin - Tiergarten. Open: Tues-Fri ... more

Hamburger Bahnhof ... 10am-6pm; Thurs 10am-10pm; Sat & Sun 11am-6pm.

Newest Review: ... impressive video art, and is a fascinating and restful piece. There is a small entrance fee for the Hamburger Bahnhof, but it is fully justified by the enormous collection of work on display. The gallery also has a lot of space available for temporary exhibitions, which are often of an exceptionally high standard. The works on display change often too, and though the gallery owns work by ... more

... artists including Keith Haring, Jeff Koons and John Cage, these weren't on display when I visited. This is certainly a must see for art enthusiasts visiting Berlin, though seemingly rarely mentioned in guidebooks, and is just a few minutes...more

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Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum for the Present (503 words)
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Berlin's "Museum for the Present", as it somewhat pretentiously calls itself, is housed in a former railway station to the North of the city. Constructed in 1846, the building stood vacant after receiving considerable damage in the Second World War. In 1996, following extensive reconstruction, the building was finally opened as the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery. The first thing that you notice upon arriving at the museum is the late Dan Flavin's external installation of blue fluorescent neon tubes positioned between windows around the outside of the white-washed building, giving the museum a startling appearance. Internal green neon tubes ... Read the complete review

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