Urban Nation Museum
Urban Nation is Berlin’s first and only museum dedicated to street art, graffiti, and urban contemporary art. Located in a converted 1880s Gründerzeit building in Schöneberg, the museum was opened in 2017 and has since become one of the city’s most distinctive cultural institutions. Admission is free, reflecting the democratic spirit of the art form itself. The building, redesigned by architects GRAFT, features 3,500m² of exhibition space across two floors, with diagonal bridges, soaring room heights, and a modular facade that serves as a permanent canvas for international artists.
Urban Nation’s programme is international in reach and local in spirit. Large-scale works by artists including Shepard Fairey, JR, and Lady Pink line both the interior galleries and the surrounding streets of Schöneberg, turning the entire neighbourhood into an open-air exhibition.
How Urban Nation uses Kukan
Because Urban Nation is free and open to all, its mission has always been about access. Kukan extends that access globally.
The museum embeds its Conversational3D™ tour to give visitors from anywhere in the world a complete, guided experience of its exhibitions. Rather than navigating dozens of web pages, images, and artist profiles, visitors can explore the works in the context of the space, learn about the artists and the curation, and have every question answered in a single natural conversation as it unfolds.
Because street art works at scale, Urban Nation’s exhibitions typically run for around a year. Each one is captured as a permanent Conversational3D™ record, building a living digital archive that visitors can return to long after the works themselves have changed. Future audiences will be able to experience every chapter of Urban Nation’s history, in the space it was made for, for years to come.
