Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg: Surrealism in Charlottenburg, Tickets and Opening Hours
The Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Schloßstraße 70 in Charlottenburg, is Berlin's museum of fantastic art and Surrealism. It occupies one of the two neoclassical twin buildings Friedrich August Stüler built opposite Charlottenburg Palace; the other houses the former Museum Berggruen. Part of the Nationalgalerie, its collection follows a thread from Piranesi and Goya through Victor Hugo, Odilon Redon and Henri Rousseau to Max Ernst, René Magritte and Paul Klee. The building housed the Egyptian Museum until 2005 and has shown this collection since 2008. The permanent display, "Surreale Welten", fills several galleries: the visit is human-sized, ideal for a quiet morning or afternoon near the palace.
Highlights
Odilon Redon and Symbolism
Apollo's Chariot (c. 1908) shows Redon's taste for colourful visions and dreams. This period links the dark Romanticism of Goya or Hugo with the Surrealists of the 20th century.
Henri Rousseau, "Beauty and the Beast"
This 1908 canvas by Le Douanier Rousseau, with its dense vegetation and strange scene, is among the works visitors look for first in the rooms on the forerunners.
Paul Klee and Surrealism
The museum shows a group of Klee's works, including "Viaduct" (1935). Works by Max Ernst and René Magritte complete the 20th-century route.
Practical info
Tips
- Allow one to one and a half hours. Tickets can be bought online or at the door; check the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin website before you come. Admission is free for under-18s. A reduced rate applies with proof (students, trainees, visitors with disabilities). The museum is accessible to visitors with reduced mobility; there is a café and a bookshop on site. The Museum Pass Berlin also gives access. Prices and hours checked in October 2026.
How to get there
U2 to Sophie-Charlotte-Platz or U7 to Richard-Wagner-Platz, then a few minutes on foot towards the palace; bus M45 or 109 to the Schloss Charlottenburg stop. The museum faces the palace, across Schloßstraße. Nearby: Charlottenburg Palace, the Museum Berggruen (next door, currently closed), the Museum Bröhan and our guide Around Charlottenburg Palace. For the neighbourhood as a whole: Charlottenburg.
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