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Museums in Berlin display unique exhibits from ancient times to the present day, from Nefertiti to Warhol's works.
Museums in Berlin
Berlin is a masterpiece of art from ancient times to the present day in more than 170 collections & Museums in Berlin.
Museums in Berlin display unique exhibits from ancient times to the present day, from Nefertiti to Warhol's works.
You can explore the fascinating collections of museums on Museum Island, which is further visited by three million tourists every year. These museums in Berlin contain real treasures, such as the Pergamon altar or the bust of Nefertiti. It is worth seeing not only the exhibits, but also the island itself, which consists of five museums and has been under the protection of UNESCO since 1999 as a world cultural heritage.
The Old National Gallery (Alte Nationalgalerie) was evidently the first building on Museum Island to be renovated in 2001 after German Reunification.
After a 70-year closure, the Neues Museum opened in October 2009. Here are the first collections of state museums: the Egyptian Museum (including the famous bust of Nefertiti and a collection of papyri), the exposition of the Museum of the First Household and Early History, as well as the ancient collection of the study of Greece and the Roman Empire.
MUSEUMS IN BERLIN
The entire museum complex will be ready by 2028 as planned. The project provides for a number of new buildings: James-Simon-Gallery – the central entrance to the museum complex, the fourth wing of the Pergamon Museum, as well as the “Archaeological Promenade”, designed to connect the Old Museum, the New Museum, the Pergamon Museum and the Bode Museum with each other and lead visitors through 6000 years of the history of our civilization.
Visit the Hamburg railway station with its amazing buildings and an interesting exhibition of modern art, as well as see the museums of the Cultural Forum – the New National Gallery and the unique collection of the Art Gallery. The Bauhaus Archive Museum tells the story of a school that lasted only 14 years, but at the same time became one of the most important and influential schools of the 20th century. The founders of the school are revered as luminaries of modern architecture, design and art.
Neues Museum / New Museum
The new museum, which opened after a 70-year pause, includes three major collections of state museums:
Egyptian Museum (bust of Nefertiti), a collection of papyri, a collection of the Museum of Primitive and Early History, as well as an antique collection of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
Working hours:
Sun-Wed, 10-18
Thu-Sat, 10-20
Entrance 10 euros / reduced 5 euros
DDR Museum
Following the expansion of the DDR Museum in October 2010, the history of the GDR is now presented on an area twice as large as before. Many innovations have been introduced, the number of exhibits has been significantly increased, but the main trend has remained unchanged: the story is transmitted in an interactive, lively and exciting format. Visitors can not only enrich their knowledge, reflect on existing stereotypes, but also personally plunge into the everyday life of the GDR. For example, sit behind the wheel of Trabi, dance Lipsi or rummage through the closet of one of the rooms of the legendary panel houses. This is not the case in any museum in the world: it is allowed to touch the original exhibits, take them in hand and try out their functions.
Open: Daily from 10 am to 8 pm, on Sat. up to 22 hours
Tickets: 6 euros, reduced 4 euros
THE STORY OF BERLIN
At THE STORY OF BERLIN, you can certainly learn all about Berlin’s fascinating history spanning over 800 years, from the founding of the city to the present day. Thanks to the interactive form of the exposition and the use of multimedia technology, visitors to 23 themed rooms get the most complete picture of life in Berlin at different times. Deep underground on Kurfürstendamm is a Cold War nuclear bomb shelter. A guided tour is included in the ticket price.
The museum is open daily from 10 am to 8 pm.
Last tour of the bunker and ticket sales until 18:00.
Deutsches Historisches Museum / German Historical Museum
The German Historical Museum presents its exhibitions in two buildings at once: the unique baroque zeihghaus on Unter den Linden and the modern exhibition hall of the Chinese-American architect Joh Ming Pei. The 300-year-old storehouse is the most important surviving Baroque building and the oldest building on the Unter den Linden. A must see is the permanent exhibition, which presents 2,000 years of changing and intense German history in a European context.
The temporary exhibition of the German Historical Museum is presented on four exhibition levels of the adjoining exhibition building, the entrance to which impresses with its glass and steel spiral staircase. From March 21, the German Historical Museum is opening here the temporary exhibition “Frederick the Great – Honored, Enlightened, Damned”, which, on the 300th anniversary of his birth, for the first time takes a comprehensive look at the subsequent reflection of Frederick’s personality in art, politics and society, and also provides a fascinating experience of the Prussian-German and European culture of memories. Two centuries from the history of fashion from April 27 are presented by a unique exhibition “Fashioning fashion – European fashion 1700 – 1915”. She exhibits a collection of historic women’s and men’s costumes from the Los Angeles Museum of Art, exclusive in Germany.
Altes Museum / Old Museum
Collection of ancient art and sculptures from Ancient Greece and Rome
The Old Karl Friedrich Schinkel Museum, Europe’s most important classicist architectural masterpiece, was built from 1824 to 1829 to display the royal art collections to the public. The “Old Museum” marked the beginning of the “Museum Island”, the idea of Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who in 1841 proposed to turn the island on the Spree behind the museum into a “refuge for art and science”.
Open daily 10-18 Thu 10-22
Ticket: 8,- euro / discount 4,- euro
Berlinische Galerie / Berlin Gallery
Federal Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.
Berlin art from 1870 to the present day.
The collection of the gallery contains works by: Heinrich Zille, Georges Gros, Otto Dix, El Lissitzky and others.
Working hours:
Wed-Mon 10-18
Entrance 6 €
since 2012 tickets cost 8 €, discounted 5 €
Dali exhibition at Potsdamer Platz
Museums in Berlin
The permanent museum exhibition of more than 450 pieces from private collections provides perhaps the world’s most extensive look at the work of Salvador Dali, who preferred experimentation in almost all art techniques – right in the heart of pulsating Berlin.
Come into my brain – an invitation from Salvador Dali himself.
Working hours:
Mon – Sat 12 – 20, Sun, closed 10 – 20
Admission 11 € / concession 9,- euro
Markisches Museum Museum of History and Culture of Berlin.
Stories and facts
New knowledge of medieval sacral art
The Stadtmuseum Berlin has a significant collection of medieval art from Berlin and Brandenburg. Over the past three years, collections of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and medieval embroidery have been systematically studied for the first time thanks to the Getty Foundation, Los Angeles.
Numerous results of research into the technology, purpose and history of the most important works of art can now be seen in a thematic exhibition. At the same time, earlier collections are being reworked and replenished with freshly restored art objects.
Working hours:
Tue-Sun 10-18
Wed 12-20
Admission 4 € Wed Admission free
Open Air Museum in Düppel village
In the southwest of Berlin, the open-air museum in the village of Düppel awaits you – a reconstructed medieval village with houses, storehouses, workshops, fields and gardens. The village is a world famous center for experimental archeology.
Working hours:
Open Thursday from 15:00 to 19:00 and Sunday from 10:00 to 17:00
June 2, June 12, June 13, from 10 to 17
Mon., Tues., Wed., Fri., Sat. – closed
Deutsches Technikmuseum / German Technical Museum
One of the largest technology museums in Europe. The exposition of the museum includes everything related to technology: from Foucault’s pendulum to mills. Cars, locomotives, aircraft, various production tools, etc.
Spectrum Science Center with lots of experiments and educational games for kids.
Working hours:
Tue-Fri 9-17.30
Sat-Sun 10-18
Entrance €4.50 / reduced €2.50
from June 1, 2011 the ticket price will increase: 6,- € / concessionary 3,50 €
October 3, December 24, 25, 26 and 31 – closed
Jüdisches Museum Berlin / Jewish Museum
Museums in Berlin
The Jewish Museum, formerly designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind, is already an object of art in itself. Getting inside, visitors surprisingly lose their sense of balance, the floor of the museum is tilted, and from the first steps it is necessary to make an effort to move forward through centuries of history. The exposition of the museum tells the history of the German Jews from the Roman Empire to the present. The museum has an educational center that provides a variety of services for lectures and seminars for children, schoolchildren and students.
Working hours:
Tue-Sun 10-20
Mon 10-22
Pergamonmuseum Pergamon Museum
Museums in Berlin
The Pergamon Museum is evidently one of the most famous museums located on the Museum Island. The museum building will soon begin to restore. Moreover, the museum was built from the very beginning for the Pergamon altar discovered by Carl Humann. The Pergamon Museum further includes collections of three museums: the Islamic Museum (a frieze from Mshatta), a collection of late antique paintings and sculptures, exhibits of the Asia Minor Museum, including works of Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian art (the Ishtar Gate from Babylon, the facade of the throne room of Nebuchadnezzar II).
Working hours:
Mon-Sun 10-18
Thu 10-22
Entrance 10 euros / reduced 5 eurosEntrance 5 €, children under 6 free of charge, family 10 €
Akademie der Künste / Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts at the Brandenburg Gate. The project of the building with a glass facade, which includes the surviving historical elements of the building, belongs to Günter Boenisch and Werner Durt. Historically, founded in 1694 following the example of the Roman academies, the Berlin Academy
Arts includes the following departments: fine arts, architecture, music, literature, art of acting, and since 1975 film and media arts. Temporary exhibitions are held in the Academy building.
Working hours:
Tue-Sun from 11 to 20
Through Passage by Pariser
Platz at Behrenstraß is open
daily from 10 to 22
Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie / Berlin Wall Museum "Checkpoint Charlie"
The Berlin Wall Museum “Checkpoint Charlie” is located at the former checkpoint that bore this name. The history of the emergence of the Berlin Wall with many exhibits and documents from the GDR.
Open daily 9-22
Entrance €12.50 / reduced €9.50
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum fur Film und Fernsehen
Museums in Berlin
Museum of Film and History of German Television at Potsdamer Platz. Includes the first attempts at television broadcasting during the National Socialist era.
Open Tue-Sun 10-18
Thu 10-20
Entrance €7, reduced €4.50
Museum fur Fotografie (Helmut Newton Stiftung) / Museum of Photography
Works from the fund of Helmut Newton, the unsurpassed master of “scandalous” photography of the second half of the 20th century, who revolutionized the aesthetics of glossy magazines.
Open Tue-Sun 10-18
Thu 10-22, Admission 6 €
East Side Gallery
Museums in Berlin
The East Side Gallery in Berlin is an example of the largest mural in the world, created in 1990 after the fall of the Wall. This is a section of the former Berlin Wall in the Friedrichshain district on Mühlenstraße. You can get here from the metro stop Warschauer Strasse.
118 artists from 21 countries of the world took part in the painting of this section of the Berlin Wall from East Berlin. The wall paint uses spray cans and graffiti paints. The theme of the work, of course, connects with the unification of Berlin.
A section of the former wall more than a kilometer long has become an integral attraction for tourists. The East Side Gallery won a place in the competition “365 Places in the Land of Ideas”. Unfortunately, this historical and cultural monument of Berlin suffers from acts of vandalism.
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