How could you not be a friend of the National Gallery? Just because of the architecture! It is not for nothing that Mies van der Rohe's Temple of Modernism remains the Friends' flagship and is without question Berlin's most beautiful building of the 20th century.

Even 60 years after its opening, the house has lost none of its casual grandeur. Contrary to what the name suggests, the National Gallery is not a state-supporting institution, but rather a cosmopolitan and lively exhibition space in the present. This should continue to be the case. That's what we stand for.