Special opening hours are in place for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (state museums) for the end of 2020. Most museums are open already or reopen in October 2020. Free timeslot reservations are essential for all museums. Most of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (national museums and galleries) have reopened but with special arrangements that require time-slot … [Read more...]
Tickets for the Berlin State Museums and Galleries
Tickets for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are reasonably cheap with good combination deals. Buy museum tickets and reserve online to save even more. See September 2020 Update for Opening Hours of the Berlin State Museums. Time-slot ticket reservations are essential for ALL museums. Tickets for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State Museums) are very reasonably priced … [Read more...]
Top National Museums and Galleries in Berlin, Germany
The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums) are amongst the top cultural collections and art galleries in the world. The collections cover a wide spectrum of topics of astonishing quality and include artifacts and art from all corners of the world. Most of Berlin's State Museums are located either on Museum Island in the heart of Berlin-Mitte or in the … [Read more...]
Berlin State Museums – What Is Seen Where?
The names of Berlin’s vast State Museums hardly hint at what can be seen in the different buildings on Museumsinsel, Kulturforum, and beyond. Collections are better named but often spread through different museums. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (State or national museums) in Berlin have some of the world’s largest and most important collections of art and cultural … [Read more...]
Opening Hours of the Berlin State Museums
The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are mostly open Tuesday to Sunday, a few open on Monday, many stay open Thursday evenings and most museums open on public holidays. See September 2020 Update for Opening Hours of the Berlin State Museums. Time-slot ticket reservations are essential for ALL museums. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (national museums and galleries) are … [Read more...]
Top Temporary Exhibitions in Berlin’s State Museums in 2020
In 2020, the state museums in Berlin will arrange several special exhibitions to enhance its vast permanent art, historical and cultural collections. The top temporary cultural exhibitions in Berlin in 2020 will include a fresh look at the Germanic tribes in the Rhine region and an examination of the influence of the Late Gothic on the birth of modernity. Numerous further … [Read more...]
Top Temporary Art Exhibitions in Kulturforum Berlin in 2020
Raphael’s Madonnas and the Late Gothic are the top exhibitions in the Gemäldegalerie in 2020 but several prints and drawings collections will also draw visitors to Berlin’s Kulturforum. The two top temporary art exhibitions in Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie in 2020 feature six Madonnas by Raphael and the role of Late Gothic in the birth of modernity. Further temporary exhibitions … [Read more...]
Top Temporary Exhibitions on Berlin’s Museum Island in 2020
A critical look at Germanic tribes is the most-interesting temporary exhibition on Berlin’s Museum Island in 2020, although the opening of the Humboldt Forum will be the cultural highlight of the year. The opening of the Humboldt Forum with museums from the Asian Art and Ethnological collection is the main cultural event on Berlin’s Museum Island (Museumsinsel) in … [Read more...]
Top Art Exhibitions in Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in 2020
Special exhibitions in Berlin’s Contemporary Art Museum include artists Katharina Grosse, Michael Schmidt and Pauline Curnier Jardin in addition to the museum's own extensive collection. In 2020, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin will host a variety of temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. The main exhibition — Magical Soup — draw mostly on works from … [Read more...]
Special Temporary Art Exhibition in Smaller Berlin Museums in 2020
Welcome to the BRD is an exhibition in Berlin in 2020 on how guest workers from Greece and Italy and finally citizens from the former East Germany were received and perceived in West Germany. Some of the lesser-known national museums in Berlin have excellent collections that are enhanced by special temporary exhibitions making these galleries worth visiting. In 2020, a … [Read more...]
Visit the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin to See 19th Century Art
The Alte Nationalgalerie on Berlin's Museum Island is filled with art from neoclassical and the romantics to the impressionists - the full spectrum of 19th-century paintings and sculptures. The Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) in the shape of an antique Greek temple is one of the smaller museums on Berlin's Museum Island. It is home to Berlin's collection of … [Read more...]
See the Pergamon Altar Statues and Asisi Panorama Painting in Berlin
Pergamonmuseum Das Panorama allows visitors a close-up view of sculptures and reliefs from the Pergamon Altar and Yadegar Asisi’s panoramic painting. Das Panorama is a special temporary exhibition in Berlin showing some of the sculptures and frieze reliefs of the Pergamon Altar while the Hellenic section of the Pergamon Museum remains closed for renovation. Around 80 statues … [Read more...]