Deutsche Guggenheim Musuem – I love Mondays
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By Matt Robinson
Published on 01/10/2008
When everyone else is moaning about their first day at work after the weekend, you’re walking around a museum in the German capital established by two of the most famous names in the art collecting world.
When everyone else is moaning about their first day at work after the weekend, you’re walking around a museum in the German capital established by two of the most famous names in the art collecting world. Started in 1997 as a joint venture between the Deutsche Bank and the famous New York museum, the exhibition space here isn’t very large – for volume, check out the Hamburger Bahnhof (also free entrance, on Thursdays) – but never fails to come through in content.
Special guided tours through the 510-square-metre gallery are organised daily, and also run on Monday, focusing on different themes depending on whose work is currently being exhibited. Deutsche Bank have the largest corporate art collection in the world, over 50,000 pieces and organize a regular annual exhibition here of “Artist of the financial year.”
During Unter den Linden’s East German days, from 1949 until 1989, the building housed the Free German Association of Unions, but after being acquired by Deutsche Bank was redesigned by French interior architect André Putman – leaving only the Neo Baroque red sandstone exterior as a nod to its past proprietors.
Why should I go
Because art is good for your brain, it awakens that sleeping giant called thinking.
Where
Unter den Linden 13/15, on Berlin’s central boulevard.
Homepage
www.deutsche-guggenheim.de/
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When everyone else is moaning about their first day at work after the weekend, you’re walking around a museum in the German capital established by two of the most famous names in the art collecting world.
What else are you going to do on a Monday?
When everyone else is moaning about their first day at work after the weekend, you’re walking around a museum in the German capital established by two of the most famous names in the art collecting world. Started in 1997 as a joint venture between the Deutsche Bank and the famous New York museum, the exhibition space here isn’t very large – for volume, check out the Hamburger Bahnhof (also free entrance, on Thursdays) – but never fails to come through in content.
Special guided tours through the 510-square-metre gallery are organised daily, and also run on Monday, focusing on different themes depending on whose work is currently being exhibited. Deutsche Bank have the largest corporate art collection in the world, over 50,000 pieces and organize a regular annual exhibition here of “Artist of the financial year.”
During Unter den Linden’s East German days, from 1949 until 1989, the building housed the Free German Association of Unions, but after being acquired by Deutsche Bank was redesigned by French interior architect André Putman – leaving only the Neo Baroque red sandstone exterior as a nod to its past proprietors.
Why should I go
Because art is good for your brain, it awakens that sleeping giant called thinking.
Where
Unter den Linden 13/15, on Berlin’s central boulevard.
Homepage
www.deutsche-guggenheim.de/
Map
View Larger Map