Georg Kolbe Museum

Hours: Tuesday thru Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00 (10 AM - 5 PM)

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photo by: Fabián Marcaccio, Hero-Paintant, 2009

The large number of excellent collections that Berlin has to offer tends to distract attention from some of the interesting museums, even amongst art lovers. In an effort to remedy this situation, we have decided to showcase some of Berlin’s museums which are not usually in the limelight, but which have outstanding artistic or historical collections. Our first stop is the Georg-Kolbe-Museum. Anyone who has been to the Georg-Kolbe-Museum will tell you about its idyllic location, the beautiful studio and the fine collection there. Visitors have a habit of returning. But there are still art lovers even in Berlin who do not know the Georg-Kolbe-Museum, mostly of two widespread misconceptions: people think either that the museum is a long way from the city center and difficult to get to (it is only the Berliners who are guilty of this, not visitors from further afield), or that it only collects and displays works by the sculptor Georg Kolbe, i.e. is basically a memorial to this particular artist. It is true that the Georg-Kolbe-Museum is located in a delightfully green area on the western edge of the city, well away from the well-worn tourist routes and the clusters of museums in he center. But it only takes a few minutes to get there by local train (S-Bahn) or by bus, from either of the stations Zoologischer Garten or Friedrichstrasse, without even having to change. The Georg-Kolbe-Museum is dedicated first and foremost to the oeuvre of its founder, but also concentrates on promoting and upholding traditional German sculpture. And the museum opened its doors a long time ago to newer, international sculptures and covers a broad range of sculptural expression of the twentieth century with its ever-changing exhibitions.

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