Address:
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 / corner Stresemannstr. 110
10963 Berlin

+49(30) - 254 86-0
Fax: +49(30) - 254 86-107

To the Homepage of the Martin-Gropius-Building

Transport Links:

S1, 2, 25 (Potsdamer Platz or Anhalter Bahnhof)
U2 (Potsdamer Platz)
M29 (Anhalter Bahnhof), M41, 123 (Abgeordnetenhaus)

Opening Times apart from Tuesday 10am-8pm

Guided tours for groups and school classes - Information and registration: FührungsNetz des Museumspädagogischen Dienstes Berlin
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm; Sat-Sun 9am-1pm
Tel. (030) 90 26 99-444,
Fax (030) 28 26 183
info@mdberlin.de
www.fuehrungsnetz.de

History of the Museum

The house, ceremonially opened in 1881, was built by the architects Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden in the design vocabulary of the Renaissance as a museum for the art school. After the 1st World War the Museum of Pre and Early History and the East Asian Art Collection moved in and the town palace took in the art collection. The building was located at the Prinz-Albrecht-Straße, which had been between 1933 and 1945, one of the most feared address in the whole of Germany and also in German occupied Europe. There were the Gestapo headquarters situated. In 1945, in the last weeks before the 2nd World War the building was severely damaged. The surrounding area was levelled after the war and the street was named after the resistant fighter Katja Niederkirchner. The Martin-Gropius-Building, named after its architects, is an architectonic jewel in every aspect, was restored in 1980 and again in 1990 and has been since then a venue for spectacular changing exhibitions.