Alte Nationalgalerie

Alte Nationalgalerie is a truly beautiful gallery, offering a mix of permanent collections and rotating temporary exhibitions — both equally captivating in their own way. The artworks are thoughtfully curated, and the building itself feels like a masterpiece. The surrounding grounds, dotted with sculptures and framed by grand architecture, add to the charm and make the whole area feel serene and almost timeless. It’s the kind of place where everything naturally slows down, inviting you to wander, pause, and really take in the art and atmosphere.

Wonderful place — a true temple of art. Every step is a magical journey, and every painting has its own history and soul. Definitely a must-see if you’re an art lover. No recommendation needed.

Fantastic art gallery in fabulous building designed by Friedrich August Stüler (1800-1865) and Johann Heinrich Strack (1805-1880), influenced by Friedrich Gilly's unrealized temple for Frederick the Great. Unrivaled collections of Caspar David Friedrich and Karl Friedrich Schinkel along many other artists such as Christian Daniel Rauch, Adolph Menzel, Ferdinand Hodler, Auguste Renoir, and many others. Nice temporary exhibitions focusing on Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger and Lovis Corinth respectively.

The old national galllery in Berlin is one of the best art galleries I have ever seen. Classic paintings and sculptures by the best snd leading artists in the world . The museum itself is spectacular in its beauty and well designed. It is large snd covers 3 floors. Highly recommended for art lovers.

Nice exhibitions but museum facilities are kind of special - no jackets, scarves & no bag (even not small ones) are allowed but not enough lockers available. Online tickets couldn‘t be bought when I arrived, so needed to queue quite a while just to buy a ticket. Loving impressionism, I have visited a lot of national galleries or big museums in the past in other cities and abroad, but this was more of a disappointment for a city like Berlin. Audio guide for free but also not that well done.

Museum has portraits and landscapes by local and regional artists, a nice collection of French paintings in the Scharf exhibition like Renoir, Bonnard, Monet, Cézanne and prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, and sculptures. Spaciously displayed on 3 levels.

I'm in loveeee. Ticket at a very resonable price. A little bit tricky when walking through the gallery but I enjoyed wandering around very much. Benches are available in almost every room and hall, which is amazingggg. Lockers are available too. The architecture is also worth admiring. There are temporary exhibitions and permanent arts, both were great.

About $14 usd ticket to visit just this museum. The bathroom is located down the stairs on the left. You don’t need a ticket to use the bathroom. So you can add this stop as a bathroom break. Also there is a nice museum store right before the bathroom. The free lockers are just before the bathroom. If they are all taken go to the right of the ticket register and there is a free coat check area to check everything you need. Mostly sculptures and some masterpieces. Don’t expect the British Museum or the Met, but it’s a decent sized to spend about 1-2 hours roaming around. We paid and spent 2hrs to see all the collections. There is also a free English tour in the afternoon. Check the time on their website before you go if you want to learn about German art. Definitely add as a stop if you’re near Museum Island. Even if just for a restroom break. The grounds have plenty of sculptures you can view for free and sit to enjoy the scenery.

The Alte Nationalgalerie houses An impressive collection of paintings and sculptures. There are famous works here by Rodin, Renoir, van Gogh, Monet and many others, including several paintings capturing the beauty of nearby Potsdam. The museum itself is a beautiful palatial building with various stylings that help shift the mood as your switch between periods and genres. Definitely worth including in your Museum-Insel tour (tip: purchase the museum island card, rather than just entry for this museum - it's about 50% more cost and includes the whole island). You could zoom through the museum in 30 or so minutes, but if you have time to spare it's worthwhile to spend longer enjoying the museum and the exhibits.

4.5 the Alte Nationalgalerie is a key museum in Berlin art exhibition landscape, focusing on 18-19th century European painting and sculpture, and based on the crowds on the day I was there, is very popular with visitors. With conceptualization beginning in the 1830-40s, the basis of the collection began with a bequeathment of 262 works from banker Joachim Heinrich William Wagener upon his passing in 1862. The building was completed in 1876 at the direction of King Frederick William IV of Prussia based on original designs in a Neoclassical style by Friedrich August Stüler, which after his death were completed by Johann Heinrich Strack. During WWII, much of Museumsinsel was damaged by bombing, with holdings displaced between East and West Germany, and the museum's collections only reunited after the 1990 fall of the Berlin Wall. Restorations began then and continued thru the 90s, reopening in 2001 to the public. Their permanent collections include Friedrich, Cézanne, Renoir, Manet, Monet, von Menzel, Liebermann, etc. You could quickly walk thru the entire 2.5 floors in about 45 minutes though if you want to listen to more of the descriptions and background for some pieces via the free audio guide provided you could easily spend 2.5 hours here. I do wish for the pieces without audio guide that there was more info provided outside the name of the work, artist, year of completion, and method of acquisition. Tickets are €12 regular adult, €6 discounted for student/seniors/patrons with disabilities, either online in advance or in person. Also available is a single museum island day pass (24 hours) for €24, a Berlin Museum Pass for €32 exists which allows admission over 3 days to 30 museums around Berlin, or different options of the Berlin Welcome card (varied prices). Separately, admission is free the first Sunday of each month, though be forewarned the lines are long. I waited over an hour to enter here in October, though the wait was only 10-15 minutes at other museums. Tickets are distributed on site only for free Sundays. Normal hours are Tue - Sun: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, closed Mondays. Note: The museum building has elevators though is not entirely mobility-handicap accessible due to the split-level construction of part of the galleries.

What a great art museum. And I finally got to see some of Caspar David Friedrich's work in person. My mom and I went here a few months ago as one of our main points of interests in Berlin and it didn't disappoint. It's also in a really nice area known as Museum Island where there are a ton of other museums in walking distance. This museum has so many paintings and sculptures, you could spend a whole day seeing everything. This is a great museum that I would love to visit again.

Easy access during corona. Good size collection of Adolph Menzel, Caspar David Friedrich, John Constable, Carus, Delacroix and other Romantic era artists. Helpful staff, few visitors on a weekday, clean bathrooms. Ticket €10 for adult.

I'm not a big museum person but I enjoyed the experience while I was there. I don't know the history of most painting and sculptures but I enjoyed the quick walk through. Despite my ignorance in art culture, I could tell it is a world class museum with priceless collections - comparable to the best in every major cities (e.g. Met in NY).

On a recent trip to Berlin, during October 2017, I had planned to visit all of Museum Island, but there was so much to see and do in Berlin, this unfortunately never happened. However, I did manage a quick visit to Alte (old) National Gallery. Admission was 10 Euro, though I would recommend the one or three day passes which allow access all five museums on Museum Island (a UNESCO World Heritage site) priced at 18 or 29 Euros respectively. Alte National Gallery was amazing, containing three floors filled chiefly with beautiful paintings and some sculptures. Works by Wilhelm Kuhnert, Franz Von Stuck, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edouard Manet, Carl Schuch, Franz Von Lenbach, Carl Blechen and August Kopisch were amongst my favourites. I would highly recommend Alte National Gallery, especially for those interested in art and painting.

This is one museum on Museum Island I think is worth going. The architect is impressive; the outside looking like a church, and the inside with a big staircase. The first floor had a portion for statues, which I quite enjoyed. The rest of the floors had other 19th century art. Paintings don't usually catch my attention, but I stood in front of the painting 'Procession of Death' for a really long time. It's definitely one to look and ponder.

Alte Nationalgalerie is one of the museum inside museums island. It offers collection of post - 1800 art. Compares with the other museums that near by, Alte Nationalgalerie is a bit smaller and humbler. There are three floors, first floor offers many cool realism paintings and some classic sculptures. They do quite some finest pieces inside at this floor. When I was walking to the second floor, I really enjoy the atmosphere of the hallway, really elegant. Kinda remind me a bit those beautiful hallway of the castle from Disney's animations. At the second floor has the collection of idealism, realism and impressionism. When I walked in here, the Neo-Baroque caught my attention very soon. It was quite amazing. I generally love most of the collection in the second floor. There are many great paintings I stopped by and enjoyed. By the way, the audio guide here are petty nice as well, beside the stories of the paintings, some of the paintings it also play very nice and classic music. They also have pretty amazing painting in the hallway here. During my visit, the third floor was under construction. Pity. I did get a glance of the entrance, seem really nice. It got me actually more curious. Probably might come back just for this. The staff here are very strict though. Overall, I like this place, not so sure is this the museum for anyone. If you interested at classic realism paintings, surely this is the place to visit.

I divided the day between this and the Neues Museum, but I wish I had spent more of it at the former because I was only able to cover two of the three floors of the gallery. What an amazing place. The post-romantics and German impressionists and realists were especially mind-blowing to me. If you want a chronological overview, it is good to start from the third floor down. Make sure to get an audio guide, which comes free with the ticket- it is a fantastic companion that offers wonderful insights into the paintings and the artists. (Great script, read with such passion, clarity, and love. I wish to find and thank the woman behind this beautiful voice).

I'm a fan of any museum that dedicates space to the Impressionists. A little Renoir goes a long way. There's also a small sculpture of Rodin's "The Thinker", which could have been practice for the real deal in Paris. Some of the rooms on the ground floor are a bit dry, but they're still interesting. I think the first floor is the most exciting and well laid out.

4 euro for students to see amazing art and you can take pictures. Not sure what else to say here other than emphasize that the art in here is really amazing, so if you're into art even in the slightest you should go here.

Probably one of the best national galleries I have been to. The audio guides are well curated. An incredible glimpse at German History Painting and German Realism. As well as the forever beautiful "In the Conservatory" -Manet- ( worth the whole admission in my opinion) **Worth getting the Berlin Museum Pass grants access to almost all museums on museum island as well as dozens more**

Large light filled spaces. Peaceful presence. Small collection with little diversity.

This is an amazing collection of paintings and a few sculptures. Don't miss the Renoirs and Monets on the second floor. For me, other museums are more exciting. The building is beautiful and well organized. The architecture and painted walls are a real highlight. I found the docents polite and generally in the background. The Maori Portraits were a real treat, near photographic quality and in amazing shape for being well over 100 years old. It was a very fascinating exhibit. While this is a lovely museum with an impressive collection, I feel as though it may not be the museum for everyone.

We think we could have skipped this museum. To really enjoy this place, you should have a special interest in 19th century German art. Otherwise, you might get bored after strolling through a few rooms. (as we did)

On a November Thursday,I spent a very full day enjoying the Alte Gallery's fine collection of 19th and early 20th paintings.This art museum emphasiizes German Romantic,Realist,Naturalist,and Impressionist oil paintings.German paintings that captivated me were: August Kopisch's"Marshes at Sunset",Johan Hummel's"Granite Bowl at Lustgarden".Casper David Friederich's"Moonrise Over Sea"(its collection of Friederich paintings is definitive),Fritz Uhde's"Grace Before Meals",Max Liebermann's"Flax Barn at Laren",and Lesser Ury's"Nollenplatz,Berlin",among others.i also saw fine 19th and early 20th Century paintings of excellence by these French painters;Eduard Manet("In The Winter Garden"),Claude Monet("Houses at Argentieul")("Saint Germain in Auxerrois").Pierre Renoir,Camille Pissarro,Vincent Van Gogh("Mill at La Gallette"),and Raoul Dufy("Harbor"),among others.The 10 Euro admission price is a true bargain.I also recommend a 3 day Berlin Museum

Easy museum to get through. Great price for students. The cafe on the first floor is nice and has seating area. There were a lot of students groups going through and the younger ones were sitting in circles but the teenagers were running around the museum and were really getting in the way of the other viewers. I got through 2 floors of the museum and a security guard told me my purse was too large and I needed to check it. I really wish I would have been told this before I started the museum because up until then it wasn't a problem. Although this isn't the most impressive gallery I've been to it was pretty diverse.

A must-see museum in Berlin. Quality art, and lots of it! I liked it better than the Old National Gallery.