Hamburger Kunsthalle

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is one of the largest museums in the country. Although it started as a kunsthalle (an “art hall” that hosts exhibitions rather than housing a permanent collects ion), the museum has since become home to a vast collects ion of art that dates from the Middle Ages to today. Its red-brick building was built between 1863 to 1869 and a 60,000-square-foot extension was built in 1997 to house the growing contemporary art collects ions. Its treasures include the famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog” (1818), as well as works by Édouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Klee, Edvard Munch and Bruce Nauman.