Museum Berggruen 

Museum Berggruen counts among the world’s most important museums for twentieth-century art. Over the course of 66 years Heinz Berggruen assembled this collection of superb works of art by some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, and Alberto Giacometti.

Upon invitation from the National Museums of Berlin in 1996, Hein Berggruen (1914–2007) exhibited his art collection under the title Picasso and his Era across from the Charlottenburg Palace in the classicist building by Friedrich August Stüler, which was refurbished for the purpose. Four years later, in an internationally appreciated gesture of reconciliation, he pledged to bequeath the extensive collection of 165 artworks to his hometown of Berlin and the public. After his death the family decided to augment the museum with the privately owned works, for which the neighboring building on Spandauer Damm will be renovated. The opening of the Museum Berggruen extension is planned for late Autumn 2012.