Current exhibitions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Süßwasser, Detail, 2025, Fine Art Prints — © Anita Schulte-Bunert

Museum für Fotografie
Rico Reframed
New Perspectives on Rico Puhlmann’s Fashion Photography

16.01.2026 to 15.02.2026

Graphic design using: Alfred Sisley, Woman with a Parasol – Summer Scene, detail, 1883 and James Ensor, The Deadly Sins Dominated by Death, detail, 1904 — © Graphic design: Peter Dorén; photos: Sammlung Julietta Scharf / Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Dietmar Katz

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Possibilities of an Island
Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

19.12.2025 to 03.05.2026

Exhibition view “Saâdane Afif. Five Preludes”, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 12.12.2025 – 13.09.2026, Depicted: The Fountain Archives, 2008-2020 — © Saâdane Afif, 2025 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy of the artist & Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin. Photo: Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Saâdane Afif
Five Preludes

12.12.2025 to 13.09.2026

Seal of Kano Motonobu (1476-1559), Fishing in solitude, detail. Hanging scroll, ink and light colour on paper. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
A Thousand Brushes With a Single Style!
The House of Kano and Painting as Family Business

10.12.2025 to 02.03.2026

Presentation of the furnishings of the bedroom from Haus Lemke. Designed by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich (?), 1934/35 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Stephan Klonk

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Haus Lemke – The Furniture of Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich

10.12.2025 until further notice

Daniël Dupré, On the Way from Tivoli to Vicovaro, 1793, pen and brush in brown over preparatory drawing in pencil — Photo: Christoph Müller Stiftung / Kilian Beutel

Gemäldegalerie
“Das alles bin ich!” Christoph Müller’s Gift, Part 3
On Travelling and Being At Home

02.12.2025 to 08.03.2026

Christian Marclay, The Clock, 2010, Single-channel video installation, duration: 24 hours — © Christian Marclay / Installation view, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Photo: David von Becker

Neue Nationalgalerie
Christian Marclay. The Clock

29.11.2025 to 25.01.2026

Meryl McMaster, Time's Gravity, detail — © Meryl McMaster, Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Bulger Gallery and Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain

Humboldt Forum
Making Kin

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

Leonard Suryajaya, Mom's Heaven, detail, 2025 — © Leonard Suryajaya

Humboldt Forum
Nothing As Our Ground

28.11.2025 to 03.08.2026

He Chongyue, A Billion To One, 2007, Private Collection Zhang, Berlin — Photo: Tzulia Angos

Humboldt Forum
All Under Heaven
Harmony in Family and State

28.11.2025 to 25.05.2026

Newly acquired reliquary bust (Maria lactans), Ulm, around 1520, lime wood, height 23 cm, width 19.5 cm, depth 13 cm, Sculpture Collection, Inv. M 313 (property of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum Association) (Detail) — © Staatliche Museen zu Belin, Skulpturensammlung / Charlen Christoph

Bode-Museum
Back in Berlin
A bust of the Virgin Mary and the Benoit Oppenheim Collection

27.11.2025 to late May 2026

Vittore Carpaccio, The Preparation of Christ’s Tomb, detail, c. 1515–1520 — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Thuja Seidel; Public Domain Mark 1.0

Gemäldegalerie
Tribute to Vittore Carpaccio
A Restored Masterpiece and Venetian Painting around 1500

20.11.2025 to 06.04.2026

Construction of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, c. 1985 — Photo: KGM archive, photographer unknown

Kunstgewerbemuseum
A Home/Haunting: 40 Years of the KGM at the Kulturforum

15.11.2025 to 14.06.2026

Exhibition view Annika Kahrs. OFF SCORE, Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art — © Annika Kahrs, 2025 / Produzentengalerie Hamburg. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Annika Kahrs
OFF SCORE

14.11.2025 to 03.05.2026

Claude Monet, Waterloo Bridge, detail, 1903 — © The Scharf Collection, Ruland Photodesign

Alte Nationalgalerie
The Scharf Collection
Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse

24.10.2025 to 15.02.2026

Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of Giuliano de' Medici, 1478 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt

Bode-Museum
The Pazzi Conspiracy
Power, Violence and Art in Renaissance-Era Florence

24.10.2025 to 20.09.2026

Triptych installation by Rosa Merk at Forschungscampus Dahlem — © Marlene Freytag

Forschungscampus Dahlem
Currents – Charlotte Ming & Yangkun Shi
Traces of Colonial Past at the Dahlem Research Campus

19.10.2025 until further notice

Dorothea Tanning, Spannung, detail, 1942, Schenkung Sammlung Ulla und Heiner Pietzsch an das Land Berlin 2010 — Image credit: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Photo: Jochen Littkemann, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024/25

Neue Nationalgalerie
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism
Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection

17.10.2025 to 01.03.2026

Emy Roeder, „Schwangere“, 1918; Karel Niestrath, „Frommer Mann“, 1924; Otto Freundlich, „Kopf“, 1925 (v.l.n.r.) — Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Andreas Henkel

PETRI Berlin
Berliner Skulpturenfund
Entartete Kunst im Bombenschutt

16.10.2025 until further notice

Nlabephee Kefas Othaniel (rechts) und Pa Kanawa Musa (links) während einer Recording Session in Kwangkah village of Dza — © Hammanson Sule (Fotograf)

Humboldt Forum
Being Related
Shared Language, Shared Knowledge?

03.10.2025 until further notice

End of the Berlin scroll: The Paravarta monastery, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Jürgen Liepe

Humboldt Forum
The Legend of Prince Vishvantara: Boundless Generosity

24.09.2025 until further notice

Oleksandra O., 39, from Kharkiv/Ukraine in Batumi/Georgia, detail, March 2023 — © Frank Gaudlitz

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Flight
Photographs from Moldova, Armenia and Georgia by Frank Gaudlitz

19.09.2025 to 01.03.2026

Wen Congjian (1574 – 1648), The boat ride to the Red Cliff, Ming dynasty (1368 – 1644), album leaf — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

Humboldt Forum
Wen Zhengming & Co.
The Concept of jia (Family) in Painting in the Ming Dynasty

17.09.2025 to 16.03.2026

Exhibition view “Petrit Halilaj. An Opera Out of Time”, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 11.9.2025 – 31.5.2026 — © Petrit Halilaj, 2025.Courtesy of the artist, mennour, Paris, ChertLüdde, Berlin and kurimanzutto, New York and Mexico City. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Petrit Halilaj
An Opera Out of Time

11.09.2025 to 31.05.2026

Helmut Newton, Untitled, Saint-Tropez 1975 — © Helmut Newton Foundation

Museum für Fotografie
Newton, Riviera & Dialogues
Collection Fotografis x Helmut Newton

05.09.2025 to 15.02.2026

Leaf in Sanskrit, China, Xinjiang, Kizil — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Iris Papadopoulos

Humboldt Forum
Language Families

September 2025 to mid 2026

Manichäische Electae, Detail, China, Xinjiang, Kocho, 10. Jh., Seide mit Farben — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Thomas Arens

Humboldt Forum
Family and Religion

August 2025 to mid 2026

Lovis Corinth, Woman with Rose Hat, 1912, detail, oil on canvas — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Reinhard Saczewski

Alte Nationalgalerie
In Sight!
Lovis Corinth, the Nationalgalerie and the “Degenerate Art” Campaign

18.07.2025 to 25.01.2026

Delcy Morelos, Madre, 2025, earth, clay, water, wood, metal, jute, hay, straw, cinnamon, cloves, buckwheat, chia seeds, tobacco, honey, dimensions variable. Exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 11.7.2025 – 25.1.2026 — © Delcy Morelos, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Delcy Morelos
Madre

11.07.2025 to 25.01.2026

View of the dome inside the rotunda of the Altes Museum — Photo: Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Founded on Antiquity
Berlin's First Museum

10.07.2025 to 03.05.2026

Rico Puhlmann, portrait of Naomi Campbell, in sweater by Michael Kors, detail, 1992 — Photo: Rico Puhlmann Archive © Klaus Puhlmann, Berlin

Museum für Fotografie
Rico Puhlmann
Fashion Photography 50s–90s

27.06.2025 to 15.02.2026

Restoration of a find at PETRI Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Christof Hannemann

PETRI Berlin
Discover Archaeology
From the Find to the Exhibition at PETRI Berlin

Permanent exhibition

Exterior view of the cabinet prior to restoration — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Walter Borgers

Humboldt Forum
Conservation in Dialogue
A Glimpse Behind the Scene

24.05.2025 to 01.06.2026

Bahr Yusuf in Medinet el-Fayum (Egypt), Georg Schweinfurth, who accompanied Heinrich Schliemann and Rudolf Virchow on their journey in the Fayum in 1888, sitting on the bank on the left. — © private (with kind permission) / Photo: Rudolf Virchow, 1888

Neues Museum
On Paths Untrodden
Georg Schweinfurth and His Significance for the Collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

23.05.2025 to 08.02.2026

Exhibition view: (In)Visible Places: Siegfried Hirschmann – A Forgotten Industrial Pioneer — © Offenblende Agency / Beata

Forschungscampus Dahlem
(In)Visible Places
Siegfried Hirschmann – A Forgotten Industrial Pioneer

18.05.2025 until further notice

Blick vom Landwehrkanal in die Matthäikirchstraße, im Hintergrund die Kirche St. Matthäus, Aufnahme 1930er Jahre — © Bildarchiv Foto Marburg

Kunstbibliothek
Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District

16.05.2025 to 31.12.2028

Film still from Deutschland versenken, 9 November 1999: Christoph Schlingensief in front of the Statue of Liberty — Courtesy Filmgalerie 451, Estate Christoph Schlingensief, Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie
Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99

02.05.2025 until further notice

Hand of Fatima — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Christian Krug

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Muslim InVisibilities: Creating Relationships
Intervention

Permanent exhibition

View into the staircase hall of the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Rendering: Studio Michael Müller

Neues Museum
Dioscuri – The Given Day

12.04.2025 to 15.03.2026

Maison Margiela, vest, Spring/Summer 1994, detail, paper, printed, painted — Photo: Max Fahrig

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Fashion from Paris
A Donation of Erika Hoffmann

27.02.2025 to 07.06.2026

Exhibition view — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Humboldt Forum
Histories of Tanzania

29.11.2024 until further notice

Trial assembly in the model hall of the Gipsformerei, detail with putto after Donatello — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei / Fabian Fröhlich

Bode-Museum
The Baptismal Font from Siena
History, Restoration and Reinstallation of a Plaster Cast Model

20.10.2024 until further notice

Time & Temporality – A DenkRaum (Think Tank Space) at the Forschungscampus Dahlem — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Forschungscampus Dahlem / Pierre Adenis

Forschungscampus Dahlem
Time & Temporality
A DenkRaum (Think Tank Space) at the Forschungscampus Dahlem

19.09.2024 until further notice

Jeremy Shaw, Phase Shifting Index, 2020, Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris — Photo credit: Timo Ohler

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Museum in Motion
A Collection for the 21st Century

06.09.2024 to 26.07.2026

Portrait of prince Corgiyamz‘an (wartime loss), Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911), 1776, detail, original painting: hanging scroll, reproduction from glass plate — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum

Humboldt Forum
The Ziguangge: Hall of Purple Splendor
Event Venue, Heroes’ Gallery and Theatre of War

28.08.2024 to 31.08.2026

Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970–1977, Detail, 1980, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Sammlung Marx — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / LaForgia © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Joseph Beuys
Works from the Nationalgalerie Collection

12.04.2024 until further notice

Friedrich Drake, Statuette Karl Friedrich Schinkels, Detail, 1835, Marmor — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
Focus on Schinkel
A Look at His Life and Work

24.11.2023 until further notice

Wolfgang Mattheuer: Brasker Landschaft, detail, 1967 — Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Roman März © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

Neue Nationalgalerie
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000

18.11.2023 to 25.04.2027

Exhibition view „Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century“, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2023 — © the artists / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century

16.06.2023 to 29.03.2026

John Knight, The Right to be Lazy, 2007 / 2009 fortwährend — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia / John Knight

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Endless Exhibition

16.06.2023 until further notice

Exhition view “Forum Hamburger Bahnhof“, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 2023 — © Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Forum Hamburger Bahnhof

16.06.2023 until further notice

Johann Gottfried Schadow, double statue of the princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia, so-called princess group, detail, 1795, plaster, installation in the Friedrichswerder church, 2023 — © Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
The Princesses Are Back!
A New Exhibition of Schadow’s Princess Group in the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche

Permanent exhibition

Gerhard Richter, Abstract painting (944-2), detail, 2016, oil on wood, 40 x 30 cm, loaned by the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation — © Gerhard Richter 2023 (31032023)

Neue Nationalgalerie
Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin

01.04.2023 until further notice

Bowl with branches and butterflies, China, Jingdezhen, Imperial workshops, probably early to middle Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, porcelain with onglaze painting — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Saturia Linke, Public Domain Mark 1.0

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Encounters. Non-European Arts and Crafts in the Collection of the Kunstgewerbemuseum

Permanent exhibition

Hands-On Station "Interweaving Messages" — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / David von Becker

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
ALL HANDS ON: Basketry

24.05.2022 to 24.05.2026

Buddha (Pakistan, 2--3. century) in the module "Buddhist Art in South Asia. Stupas, Buddhas,
Bodhisattvas" of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in the Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel

Humboldt Forum
Ethnological Collections and Asian Art

Permanent exhibition

Key visual for the exhibition “Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bode-Museum
Plain Talk
About the History of the Bode-Museum

18.11.2020 until further notice

Exhibition view Ideal and Form, with double statue of Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia, so-called Princess Group by Johann Gottfried Schadow, 1795, Friedrichswerder Church, 2023 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche
Ideal and Form: 19th Century Sculpture from the Nationalgalerie Collection

Permanent exhibition

A Musical Gathering (detail), Fulda, ca. 1770, porcelain — © Kunstgewerbemuseum / Saturia Linke

Kunstgewerbemuseum
The Worlds of Rococo
The Porcelain and Faience Collection

Permanent exhibition

PERGAMON Panorama, view from the top visitor platform — © asisi / Tom Schulze

Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama
PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360°-Panorama by Yadegar Asisi

17.11.2018 until further notice

The ‘Crown of Kerch’. This diadem of a noble lady was discovered in a Migration-period tomb in Kerch, in the ancient city of Panticapaion, Crimea. It is inlayed with red, garnet gemstones. Late 4th/1st half of 5th Century AD. — © Römisch-Germanisches Museum/Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne

Neues Museum
The Crown of Kerch
Treasures from the Dawn of European History

19.10.2017 to 22.09.2027

The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarcigalia; CC NC-BY-SA

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
The Giant Mechanical Nativity Scene from the Ore Mountains

Permanent exhibition

View of the sculpture hall, in the centre, Princess Group by Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764–1850), 1795–1797 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Alte Nationalgalerie
Art of the 19th Century

Permanent exhibition

Christ the Merciful, Detail, Icon / mosaic made of glass, in base of wax, on wood (around 1100) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst/ Jörg P. Anders

Bode-Museum
Late Antique and Byzantine Art

Permanent exhibition

Abukir, Griechenland, 1. Hälfte 3. Jh. n. Chr. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Lutz-Jürgen Lübke

Bode-Museum
Coins and Medals

Permanent exhibition

Ansicht der Sammlungspräsentation mit der „Tänzerin“ von Antonio Canova — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum / Wolfgang Gülcker

Bode-Museum
Sculpture and Painting 13th-18th Century

Permanent exhibition

Small cabinet, Augsburg, c. 1705 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Arne Psille

Schloss Köpenick
RoomArt, Furniture and Decorative Art from the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo

Permanent exhibition

Büste der Königin Nofretete, Neues Reich, 18. Dynastie, Amarna, Ägypten, Um 1340 v. Chr. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Jürgen Liepe

Neues Museum
Ancient Egypt

Permanent exhibition

The Berlin Gold Hat is decorated with various types of circular ornamentation, which can be explained as a lunisolar calendar, i.e., a calendar based on both the sun and the moon. It represents the connection between cult, knowledge and material wealth. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Plamp

Neues Museum
Prehistory and early history

Permanent exhibition

Exhibition view: “Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe

Permanent exhibition

Swords and lance, Bronze. 9.-8. Century BC, Stölln — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Klaus Göken

Neues Museum
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age

Permanent exhibition

View in to the Modegalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum / Achim Kleuker

Kunstgewerbemuseum
A Space for Applied Arts, Fashion and Design

Permanent exhibition

View into the presentation of the collection "Surreal Worlds" — © Jean Dubuffet / Kurt Schwitters / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg / Thomas Bruns

Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Surreal Worlds

Permanent exhibition

Hans Baldung, Pyramus and Thisbe, detail, around 1530 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Gemäldegalerie
Paintings from the 13th to 18th Century

Permanent exhibition

Busts of Cleopatra (50-30 BC) and Julius Caesar (1-50 AD) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Ancient Worlds. Greeks, Etruscans and Romans

Permanent exhibition

A cross-section sample of the finds from the Treasure of Neupotz, 2nd half of the 3rd century AD — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Claudia Klein

Neues Museum
Treasures from the Rhine: The Barbarian Treasure of Neupotz

Permanent exhibition