Martin-Gropius-Bau

The Martin-Gropius-Bau hosts around 20 international exhibitions on art and cultural history each year. The remarkable building itself is of great interest architecturally, with its combination of stringent Classicism and elements of the formal language of the Renaissance. It was opened in 1881 as a museum for applied arts, badly damaged in the Second World War, and then declared a protected building in 1966 on the initiative of Walter Gropius, one of the founding fathers of the Bauhaus movement and incidentally a grand-nephew of the building’s architect. In 1981 the acclaimed “Prussia” exhibition celebrated the building’s re-opening. This show was the first in a series of path-breaking exhibitions by the Berliner Festspiele including “Patterns of Jewish Life” (1992), “Berlin – Moscow” (1995), “Marianne and Germania” (1996), “German Images” (1997), and “7 Hills” (2000), all of which significantly enriched Berlin’s cultural life. Today it forms part of Berlin’s lively centre and its more than half a million visitors per year are able to enjoy its varied programme of top-class exhibitions and events, which are often organised in cooperation with partners such as the Berlin State Museums, the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic in Bonn, and the German Historical Museum in Berlin.

Martin-Gropius-Bau
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | corner Stresemannstraße 110 | 10963 Berlin
Underground and city train (U and S Bahnhof) Potsdamer Platz

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