Status of the NA48 experiment at CERN

The installation of the NA48 detector has been completed in 1996 with the commissioning of the liquid krypton electromagnetic calorimeter. Preliminary results from a test run performed at nominal beam intensity indicate that the NA48 detector performs according to expectations. The data taking for the measurement of the direct CP violation parameter $\Re(\epsilon'/\epsilon)$ is about to start. Preliminary results from an analysis of 1995 data for the measurement of the branching ratio of the rare kaon decay $K_{L} \to \mu^{+}\mu^{-}\gamma$ are presented.