The Museum of Photography (Museum Für Fotografie) is housed in a neoclassical building that was a mess of the "officer corps of the Berlin militia inspection e. V. built". In the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Designed by Heino Schmieden and the construction of Julius Boethke was inaugurated on September 2, 1909. In contrast to the simple appearance that had a magnificent interior and banquet halls housed, the rooms and a restaurant. The most representative was the 665 square meters and eleven meters Imperial Hall on the second floor.
The Berlin Senate acquired World War II heavily damaged Landwehr casinos in 1950 and put it in the art library. From 1978 to 1986, the Berlin gallery used the premises for exhibitions. With the new building of the Art Library in 1993 at the Culture Forum, the house was only still used as a deposit and laboratory by the Museum of European Cultures and the Alte Nationalgalerie.
Museum of Photography
Address: Jebensstraße 2, 10623
Phone: +49 30 266424242
Site:
https://www.berlin.de/museum/3109973-2926344-museum-fuer-fotografie-helmut-newton-sti.htmlLocation inserted by
Paola Bonometti