Even on a tight schedule, Gemäldegalerie earns the hours.
Allow 1.5–2.5 hr.
For painting lovers it's a quiet triumph, rivalling far more famous galleries, with multiple Vermeers and Rembrandts and almost no queue. The catch: it sits in the sterile, hard-to-love Kulturforum off the main trail, so it's a deliberate pilgrimage that casual visitors routinely skip.