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

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 23.11.2025

Prayers to the sun, detail, 1976, Ali Seliem (1948– ), wool
© Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre, Cairo, Egypt

James-Simon-Galerie
Threads of Egyptian Life
Tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center in Cairo

11.04.2025 to 02.11.2025

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