Berggruen Museum

The Berggruen Museum in Berlin houses the modern art collection assembled by Heinz Berggruen and focuses on major 20th-century artists. The collection emphasizes Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti and is exhibited at the Kulturforum in central Berlin.

Galleries present paintings and sculpture from the modernist period in a relatively compact layout so that single-artist groups and thematic displays are easy to view in one visit. The museum is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and functions as a permanent collection rather than a large temporary-exhibition venue.

Heinz Berggruen donated his collection to the city of Berlin in the 1990s and the museum was arranged to present that gift to the public; the institution has been housed at the Kulturforum since the collection’s transfer. The holdings are presented as a museum collection rather than as a historical building ensemble.

Situated at the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Straße, the museum sits adjacent to other cultural institutions in central-west Berlin and is reached by public transport from central Berlin.

• Collection highlights: Works by Picasso, Klee, Matisse and Giacometti are the core of the permanent collection and are displayed in rotating arrangements within the museum's galleries.
• Museum cluster: Located at the Kulturforum, it is commonly visited together with nearby museums such as the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Gemäldegalerie.