Offers for Adults

At the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin we offer a wide variety of different educational events and presentations for adults:

  • Regular guided tours explore the themes highlighted in the permanent displays and special exhibitions.
  • Dialogue-based tours, panel discussions and workshops encourage visitor participation.
  • Museum workshop talks and lecture series offer insights into the different types of work and the decision-making processes which go on “behind the scenes”.
  • Concerts, dance events and readings related to current exhibitions provide added inspiration.
  • Audio guides accompany visitors on their journey through the exhibitions.
Jubiläumstour: 200 Jahre Museumsinsel

Public tour | Teens
Students
Families
Adults
Sun 09.11.2025 10:00 AM More Dates
Museumsinsel Berlin

Antoine Watteau: The Dance (Iris), c. 1718/21
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jörg P. Anders
Malerei und (Live)Musik

Public tour | Tandem guided tour | Adults
Sun 09.11.2025 11:00 AM
Gemäldegalerie

Bode-Museum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museumsinsel / Hans Christian Krass
Museum Island – World Heritage Site (in English)

Public tour | Adults
Sun 09.11.2025 11:00 AM More Dates
Museumsinsel Berlin

In the upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Valerie Schmidt
Mies van der Rohe: Less is more

Public tour | Adults
Sun 09.11.2025 11:00 AM
Neue Nationalgalerie

Academic lectures, lecture series, workshop talks and seminars offer more in-depth information about exhibitions as well as technical insights into the types of work and decision-making processes which take place “behind the scenes” at the different institutes and facilities of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
 

Julie Wolfthorn: Detail from the portrait of the art patron Ida Auerbach, later Dehmel, 1897
Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Ida Dehmel und ihr Salon in Berlin

Lecture | Panel discussion | Adults
Sun 16.11.2025 11:15 AM
Kulturforum

Adolph Menzel: The artist's hand with a bowl of paint, opaque colours on paper, 1864
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / Jörg P. Anders
Akademievortragsreihe: Meisterwerke der Zeichenkunst

Academy: lectures on art and culture (over several days) | Adults
Tue 18.11.2025 3:00 PM
Kulturforum

Grafik: Eunjung Kwak
Tenacious Tropes: Colonial Narratives in Visual Advertising

Conference |
Fri 21.11.2025 10:00 AM
Kulturforum

Salt reduction on sandstone sculptures, Potsdam 2009
© Daniel Schubert, Farrak & Schubert Restauratoren GbR
Salzreduzierung an porösen mineralischen Materialien

Lecture | Adults
Tue 25.11.2025 6:30 PM
Archäologisches Zentrum

Dialogue-based tours, panel discussions and workshops encourage visitors to get involved. Concerts, dance events and readings related to current exhibitions provide added inspiration.

Schauspielerin Lilian Harvey 1931/32 in einem Abendkleid von Joe Strassner (Sammlung Kessemeier)
G. Kessemeier
Modestadt Berlin. Geschichte der Berliner Konfektion und Modesalons 1836-1936

Book presentation | Adults
Thu 13.11.2025 6:00 PM
Kulturforum

Left: Michiko Umemura (grandmother of Yuko Matsuyama), centre: Hans-Werner Klohe and Yuko Matsuyama, right: Frieda Kößler (great-grandmother of Hans-Werner Klohe)
© Ethnologisches Museum / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Foto: Valerie von Stillfried
Dancing Generations

Tandem guided tour | Dance |
Sat 15.11.2025 3:00 PM More Dates
Humboldt Forum

Schloss Köpenick
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick / Maximilian Meisse
Kinder in der Klassik – Kinder und klassische Musik

Concert | Adults
Sat 15.11.2025 4:00 PM
Schloss Köpenick

Citizen Dog. Wisit Sasanatieng. TH 2004
Five Star Production
Citizen Dog

Screening | Adults
Wed 19.11.2025 6:00 PM
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg