Behind the big glass facade you can keep an eye on everything while you’re enjoying your break. Or maybe a quick snack to keep you going? Whichever you choose, the next museum is just a few steps away
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Address
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Schloßstraße 70
14059 Berlin
https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/sammlung-scharf-gerstenberg/home/
How to get here
S41, S42, S46 Westend
U7 Richard-Wagner-Platz
U2 Sophie-Charlotte-Platz
Bus 109, 309, M45 Schloss Charlottenburg
Informations about accessibility
Short Facts
- Built
- 1851 to 1859 as an officers‘ barracks by Friedrich August Stüler
- Opened
- in 1967 as Egyptian Museum (West) of the Berlin State Museums
- Re-opened
- in 2008 as exhibition space for the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection
- Exhibition space
- 2 000 m²
- What to see
- paintings, graphic art, sculptures and photographs from Surrealism and fantasy art, including works by von Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francisco de Goya, Max Klinger, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí and Hans Bellmer
- Definitely don’t miss
- Max Ernst’s ‘The Triumph of Love/False Allegory’ from 1937, Jean Dubuffet’s ‘Beautiful Woman with Averted Gaze’ (butterfly wing collage) from 1953
EVENTS AT THIS LOCATION
Special Exhibitions
Gallery
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns