The World’s Biggest Street Art Museum Opens In Berlin This Weekend

Street art is to Berlin what croissants are to Paris – it’s everywhere. And, now, the most-tagged city in Europe and UNESCO City of Design is home to the world’s biggest open-air gallery.

Opening on September 16 in Berlin‘s Schöneberg district, the Museum for Urban Contemporary Art sprawls over five stories and features graffiti, paste-ups and murals from 100 street artists from all over the world. Evol, 1010 and Shepard Fairey all make an appearance.

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An additional 30 artists have covered the surrounding railway in unique installations, while the museum’s exterior will be adorned with detachable 750-square-metres murals that can be rearranged and archived to make way for new works.

And while street art museums certainly exist elsewhere, it will be the first to cover mediums like graffiti, sculpture, and acrylic design in one place.

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“This isn’t about trying to squeeze something that belongs on the street into a house,” Yasha Young, director and curator of Urban Nation, the organisation behind the Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, told Conde Nast Traveler. “It’s about giving these artists the backbone of a living, breathing museum, protecting their work, and letting people get up close to experience something that’s often painted over.”

How To Get There

• Fly into Berlin Tegel Airport
• Take the X9 Zoologischer Garten bus service to Ernst-Reuter-Platz
• There, take the U2 Pankow (Berlin) train to Nollendorfplatz
• Walk 140m (1 minute)
• Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin

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(Lead image: Urban Nation)