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Humboldt Forum
Collections, exhibitions, workshops and debates share the Humboldt Forum. Choose one programme or collection area first: the complex is large enough that an unfocused visit can become a long walk between rooms.
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Scandal! Hermione von Preuschen and the “Mors Imperator”
Hermione von Preuschen’s Mors Imperator provoked controversy in 1887. The exhibition returns to the painting and the circumstances that made its reception so charged.
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Haus des Papiers
Paper becomes a sculptural material at this small museum on Seydelstraße. Look beyond drawing and printing towards folded, built and transformed surfaces.
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Veronika Witte – Nothingness Is Full of Bodies
Veronika Witte brings her exhibition Nothingness Is Full of Bodies to Spandau’s Gotisches Haus. Pair the contemporary work with time to look at the historic building around it.
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Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf
District history anchors this museum in Alt-Marzahn. Changing displays add a local perspective to a trip through the village centre and the surrounding eastern boroughs.
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Being related: shared language, shared knowledge?
Language and knowledge provide two routes into the question of kinship. The display asks how relationships are maintained and understood across different cultural settings.
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Gotisches Haus
A historic house in Spandau’s old town hosts exhibitions and local history displays. It makes a compact cultural stop between a walk through the streets and the riverside.
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Conservation in Dialogue
Conservation decisions shape what a museum visitor gets to see. This presentation brings those choices into view and asks whose knowledge should guide the care of objects.
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Zeiss-Großplanetarium
The planetarium pairs astronomy with music and immersive dome programmes. Choose the show by its subject and age guidance: the experience depends on the programme, not just the building.
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Dara Tûyê – درخت توت – The Mulberry Tree
The work of Flamingo e.V. connects women’s solidarity with the story of a mulberry tree. It forms part of BERLIN GLOBAL’s space for voices from the city.
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Wassersportmuseum Grünau
Rowing, sport and the history of Grünau meet in this watersports museum. Use the exhibitions to put the nearby regatta landscape into context before exploring the riverbank.
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Family and Religion
Chinese silk paintings offer a close look at the relationship between family life and religious practice. Buddhist and Manichaean traditions are among the subjects represented.
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DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum
The Volkswagen Group’s public forum presents changing displays around mobility, design and its vehicle brands. Check the current subject before making a stop on Friedrichstraße.
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Der Traumzauberbaum: a planetarium music show
Reinhard Lakomy’s Der Traumzauberbaum becomes a dome-screen experience. This is a planetarium presentation based on the music, with projected imagery around the audience.
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Haus am Waldsee
Contemporary exhibitions unfold in a house beside a lake in Zehlendorf. Pair the indoor show with the garden when access and weather allow.
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If I Were King or Queen... Young Visions from Neukölln
Eleven young people from Neukölln imagine what they would change if power were in their hands. Their proposals shift the museum’s attention towards the priorities of a younger generation.
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Nordische Botschaften (Felleshus)
The shared public building of the Nordic embassies hosts cultural exhibitions and events. Visit the Felleshus programme; the surrounding embassy offices are separate working spaces.
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almost in between
Melanie Ender’s almost in between is presented at Kunsthaus Dahlem. Give the works space to register before continuing through the building and its grounds.
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Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus
Lichtenberg’s district museum looks at the people and changes behind the neighbourhood. The Stadthaus setting is a useful starting point for a closer look at the surrounding streets.
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Brücke / Natur Natur / Brücke
The Brücke artists’ relationship with nature provides the exhibition’s organising thread. Look at how the landscape functions as both a setting and a subject in its own right.
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Hugenottenmuseum im Französischen Dom
The museum traces the Huguenot presence in Berlin from inside the French Cathedral complex. Its exhibitions offer a focused route into migration, religion and the city’s history.
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Fujiko Nakaya: Fog Sculpture in the Sculpture Garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie
Fujiko Nakaya brings a changing fog sculpture into the Neue Nationalgalerie’s garden. Outdoor conditions are part of the experience, so the work may look different from one visit to the next.
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Archenhold-Sternwarte Treptow
Astronomy programmes give this observatory in Treptow its rhythm. Check whether a session is a talk, a planetarium presentation or an observation evening before choosing tickets.
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Helmut Newton’s One-off Album
An album assembled for collector Gert Elfering offers a particular route into Helmut Newton’s photography. The selection is the point of interest: an individual grouping rather than a general career survey.