The first museum dedicated to street art and graffiti opened its doors to the public in the German capital on September 16. Located in Berlin's Schöneberg neighborhood, the Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art was inaugurated with an encounter between urban artists, graffiti artists, curators, and the public. Berlin has stood out as the European capital of alternative culture and art. It has become a place for a large number of street and urban artists from all around the world that have left their mark in the city with works displayed on walls like those at the East Side Gallery and on most walls in Berlin. Supported by the charitable foundation Berliner Leben of the Gewobag company, the Urban Nation Museum for Contemporary Art is the result of a collective effort by Urban Nation artists who, since 2013, have been producing different interventions in the city through graffiti, street art and other contemporary urban artistic approaches. The museum will promote those art forms that originated with stencils, signs, stickers, spray cans, and urban interventions which ultimately became to be known as graffiti; expressions that evolved until becoming the contemporary street and urban art created worldwide. Unlike other places of similar style, the building from the Wilhelmine Period located on Bülowstraße 7 allows its architecture and exterior surfaces to become works of art on their own right—walls are turned into canvases that generate the new spaces required to bring communities together through culture. The exhibition rooms in the museum display works by 150 international creators who in recent years have specialized in developing artistic projects on walls, façades and public spaces. These include: Fintan Magge (Australia), Titi Freak (Brazil), Inti (Chile), Shepard Fairey (United States), Crocheted Olek (Poland), Lora Zombie (Russia), and Nicolás Sánchez (Venezuela), among others. Directed by gallerist and curator Yasha Young, and under the motto of "connecting, creating, and protecting," the museum is established as a platform for the development of educational formats, encounters, exchanges and research associated with urban art.