Hamburger Bahnhof

Hamburger Bahnhof is Berlin's central museum of contemporary art, part of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is housed in the neoclassical passenger building of the early Berlin-Hamburg railway, opened in 1846 as the terminus of the line to Hamburg and now one of the oldest surviving station buildings in Germany. Closed in 1884, the building served as a transport museum until Joseph Paul Kleihues converted it into an art museum in 1996. The collection gathers key works of postwar and contemporary art, from Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol and Anselm Kiefer through Cy Twombly to the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection. The adjoining Rieckhallen, long former freight halls, host changing exhibitions of major contemporary artists.