Hamburger Bahnhof is one of the oldest station buildings in Germany and the only late neoclassical terminus building surviving in Berlin. Built in 1846 as the starting point of the Berlin–Hamburg railway, the former terminus is now home to the Museum für Gegenwart, a contemporary art museum part of the Berlin National Gallery.

The museum's permanent exhibit displays the private collection that Berlin entrepreneur Erich Marx offered to the city in the 1980s. The collection includes on permanent display works by Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, and Cy Twombly.