These 10 German museums should have visited (at least) once in life

In winter it is sometimes difficult to spend your free time outside of your own four walls - it's no wonder, as pig cold and uncomfortable it is often this time of year. But whatever works is a trip to. And luckily there are a lot in GermanyMuseums that you should have paid a visit once in life.

Fortunately, there is everywhere in Germanythat are so good that a city trip is worthwhile for your visit alone. These ten are definitely part of it.

DieBerlin National Galleryis the name of a collection of art of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries under the roof of the state museums in Berlin. The inventory is issued in various houses, including the Hamburg train station, the Berggruen collection and - of course - the old and new National Gallery. The old National Gallery belongs to the building ensemble of the Museum Island and thus the World Heritage Site of the. There are some groundbreaking works of great artists to see howThe monk by the seaBy Caspar David Friedrich andIn summerFrom Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The new National Gallery (the iconic building comes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) is at the Kulturforum and specializes in the art of the 20th century. There are works ofLike Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Lotte Laserstein, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and many more to see. The most famous works of the museum are probablyPotsdamer PlatzBy Ernst Ludwig Kirchner,Evening over PotsdamFrom Lotte Laserstein andThe skat playersBy Otto Dix. You have to have seen in life. At least.

A city that should definitely have art -loving people on their notes is Frankfurt. And next to the Städel Museum, the mainly belongsSchirn KunsthalleTo the city's absolute must-see. The Schirn is one of the well -known exhibition houses in Europe, and that is no wonder, the museum is in the possession of works by the largest artists, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Julian Schnabel, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Edvard Munch And many more. At the moment, the art world is waiting in particular for the upcoming exhibitions about Suzanne Duchamp, sister of Marcel Duchamp and pioneer of the Dada movement, as well as the great solo show of the artist Thomas Bayrle living in Frankfurt. If you don't miss!

If you stay in Munich and are interested in the Bavarian capital for art, you should go to Maxvorstadt as far as possible, because a lot of them are offered there. In addition to the Museum Brandhorst, the municipal gallery in the Lenbachhaus, the new collection and much more (also the very remarkable Muca Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art is not far away)Pinakotheken. The old Pinakothek was built in 1836 on behalf of King Ludwig I, and the visit is worthwhile, as it is absolutely possible by the absolute masterpieces of European painting from Renaissance to Rokoko exhibited by prominent artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Albrecht Dürer. In addition to the old masters, you will find it particularly in the new Pinakothek, where paintings and sculptures of the 19th century are mainly shown. Contemporary, on the other hand, can be found in the Modernity Pinakothek, where works by Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Georg Baselitz and Joseph Beuys are also exhibited some of the most important German artists of the 20th century.

As such, the city of Essen may only be partially as a must-sea city in Germany, but in addition to the Zeche Zollverein, it houses theMuseum FolkwangAfter all, one of the most renowned art museums in Germany. The focus is on works of impressionism, expressionism and surrealism, but the museum also has works of other styles as well as a large graphic and a photographic collection. For example, the exciting exhibition is currently thereWalk this Way – Hip-Hop & Street Cultureto see under the titleWoman in blueThe Museum Folkwang shows selected works by Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler from March 20.

"A journey through European art history" promise the state art collections in Dresden, which are among the most important museums in the worldGemäldegalerie Alte Master. On three floors there are around 700 masterpieces from the 15th to 18th centuries (focus: Italian works by the Renaissance as well as Dutch and Flemish painters of the 17th century). The collection is located in the Sempergalerie of the kennel (a courtly orange, festival and collection construction), which is visited annually by more than 500,000 people. Titian's best -known worksThe interest rate,Healing of the blindBy El Greco and RembrandtsGanymede in the clutches of the eagleas well as Letter reader at the open windowby Jan Vermeer. You have to have seen at least once in life!

Berlin, you can say that, is an incredibly great city for those interested in art. But you don't always have to go to the museum because of art, you can also deal with nature - for example in the fantasticMuseum of Natural Historyin Berlin that you should have really visited in life. The highlight of the house, known far beyond the city limits, is the museum's dinosaur world. After all, Giraffatan, originally classified as Brachiosaurus Brancai, is the largest assembled dinosaur skeleton in the world with a height of 13.27 meters. But also a T-Rex skeleton, an Allosaurus, a Triceratops skull and one of the few and incredibly well-preserved specimens of the Archaeopteryx can also be seen there. There are also tons of animal preparations (including the Eisbär Knut) and a really creepy but also fascinating collection of liquid preparations. Really impressive!

In addition to the fantastic Schirn Kunsthalle, the no less great belongsStädel MuseumTo one of the museums that you should have visited in life. The Städel is one of 15 museums on the museum bank, but by far the best known - rightly. Masterpieces of European art from seven centuries are regularly presented there, including works by Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Francis Bacon and Gerhard Richter. At the moment, for example, there are still under the title until March 23rdGolden times?To see pictures of Rembrandts Amsterdam as well as many drawings by Max Beckmann.

Anyone who is interested in contemporary art does not deal with that in GermanyMuseum Ludwigaround in Cologne. Because in terms of art of the 20th and 21st centuries, it is one of the most renowned around the world, so that the museum should be paid a visit at least once in life. Because it not only houses the largest pop art collection in Europe with important works of, Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper John, it also has the third largest Picasso collection in the world (after the Musée Picasso in Paris and the Museu Picasso in Barcelona) and one of the most important collections on German and international expressionism-with works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Franz Marc, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella and Jackson Pollock.

Also a museum that you should have visited in life is the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (short: MdBK), which is also one of the largest exhibition houses in Germany with over 10,000 m² of exhibition space. The collection, which includes around 3,500 paintings, 1,000 sculptures and 60,000 graphic leaves - from late Middle Ages to the present is also huge. Significant parts of this collection are works of old masters like Frans Hals and Lucas Cranach to the older and romantic like Caspar David Friedrich. But the MDBK also has important works of contemporary artists, especially works by the Leipzig school of artists such as Bernhard Heisig, Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer, and of course also works by Neo Rauch and Daniel Richter. For example, there is currently the great and recommended exhibitionRole models. Women in the MdBK collectionto see.

And last, but not least: The Kunsthalle Hamburg am Glockengießerwall is also a museum that you should have visited once in life - and even larger with an area of ​​13,000 m² than the MdBK in Leipzig. The collection of the Kunsthalle extends over eight centuries - from the Middle Ages to the present (the focus is on the 19th century). There are your own departments for old masters and classical modern, modern and contemporary works is even dedicated to your own building complex. One of the most important works in the house is the famousHikers over the fog seaas well as The Arctic SeaBy Caspar David Friedrich,MadonnaBy Edvard Munch andThe living roomBy Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.