The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) is part of the cultural center Kulturforum  situated between the Landwehr Canal  Potsdamer Platz and Tiergarten Park in Tiergarten  central Berlin The site was once a residential area built in the 19th century but parts of it were torn down by the Nazis to give place to Hitler and Speers vision of a new Berlin  Welthauptstadt Germania (World Capital Germania)