For the first few years it was based in an office in Charlottenburg, and its exhibitions were displayed at the Akademie der Künste and the New National Gallery among others.

Among them are works by prominent artists such as Max Beckmann, Hannah Höch, Naum Gabo, Georg Baselitz, Wolf Vostell, Ursula Sax and John Bock.

[4] The architecture collection comprises around 300,000 plans, 80,000 photographs, 4,000 design cartons for stained glass and mosaics, 2,500 models and around 800 metres of file material from estates, competitions and archives.

A special focus is the extensive archive holdings on the Berlin DADA movement consisting of the estates of Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann.

[6] In October 2020, the tour of the collection was fundamentally renewed and presents art from the painting of the imperial period at the end of the 19th century to works of Expressionism, the Eastern European avant-garde, the architecture of post-war modernism and the Heftige Malerei of the 1970s.

[4] The special exhibition programme on the ground floor ranges from classical modernism to contemporary art in Berlin.

In addition to free museum admission, they receive special tours, studio visits, excursions and previews.