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.
Endless Exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia / John Knight
Überblicksführung: Hamburger Bahnhof

Public tour |
Tue 17.03.2026 2:00 PM More Dates
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

© the artists / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia
Overview Tours: Hamburger Bahnhof

Public tour |
Tue 17.03.2026 3:00 PM More Dates
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Opening of the exhibition ‘Histories of Tanzania’
© Charity Atukunda, Gloria Kiconco und Liz Kobusinge / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Szenografie: APC Architectural Pioneering Consultants / Studio Gründer Kirfel, Foto: Frank Sperling
Histories of Tanzania

Public tour |
Wed 18.03.2026 11:00 AM More Dates
Humboldt Forum

Time's Gravity, Meryl McMaster
Meryl McMaster, Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain
Making Kin & Nothing As Our Ground

Public tour | Adults
Wed 18.03.2026 2:00 PM More Dates
Humboldt Forum

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.
 

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preparation of Christ’s Tomb (detail), c. 1515–1520
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Thuja Seidel
Carpaccio und Aby Warburg: Eine Geschichte der Tränen

Lecture | Adults
Thu 19.03.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum

View of Haby's gentlemen's salon, advertising postcard with retouched photograph, 1902
© Private collection
„Um des Kaisers Bart“ – Aufstieg und Fall des Hoffriseurs François Haby

Lecture | Adults
Sun 29.03.2026 11:15 AM
Kulturforum

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preparation of Christ’s Tomb (detail), c. 1515–1520
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Thuja Seidel
Carpaccios „Grabbereitung Christi“: Antike und Christentum

Lecture | Adults
Thu 02.04.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt
Kulturelle und politische Bildung im Museum

Conference | Students
Adults
Thu 23.04.2026 10:00 AM
Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung

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

Der Kunstdetektiv
Heiner Stadler
Der Kunstdetektiv

Screening | Adults
Wed 18.03.2026 6:00 PM
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg

Lecrure hall ruin at the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
© Sven Geißler
Annika Kahrs: Score of Symptoms

Concert | Performance | Students
Adults
Wed 18.03.2026 7:00 PM
Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité

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 21.03.2026 3:00 PM More Dates
Humboldt Forum

Schloss Köpenick
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum (Köpenick) / Maximilian Meisse
Mozart: Lieder und Duette

Concert | Adults
Sun 22.03.2026 4:00 PM
Schloss Köpenick