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Museums and Ancient Western Asia: Perspectives from the Middle East — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer

Online lecture series „Museums and Ancient Western Asia” from 17 January to 15 March 2022

13.01.2022

Staff members of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin introduce themselves — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Employees of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Introduce Themselves

12.01.2022

Upper part of a colossal statue of Tutankhamun or Ay, detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

New Virtual Tour through the Exhibition Achmim: Egypt’s Forgotten City

10.01.2022

The Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Bode-Museum / Wolfgang Gülcker

The Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary

03.01.2022

Event at the Altes Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt, 2021

Education and Outreach Semi-Annual Programmes “Bildung und Vermittlung 1/2022”

30.12.2021

Advent at the Bode-Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Boris Baradoy

Advent at the Bode-Museum

30.11.2021

Neues Brettspiel zum Kulturgutschutz: „Taskforce: Saving Antiquities“ — © Birgit Nennstiel / Carolin Müller

A New Board Game on Protecting Cultural Property – Taskforce: Saving Antiquities

19.11.2021

Ndapewoshali Ashipala, Jonathan Fine, Hertha Bukassa, Julia Binter and Golda Ha-Eiros discussing the significance of a tortoise shell (!Uros). Film still from Tracing Namibian-German Collaborations at the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin — © Moritz Fehr, 2019

Film Screening and Discussion on the Namibia-Berlin Collection Cooperation on 7 November 2021 at the Humboldt Forum

02.11.2021

Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Friedrich Ulrich, kipper 12 kreuzer, 1621, with depiction of the wild man, unknown mint, obverse (left), reverse (right) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Christian Stoess

Münzkabinett Acquires Kipper und Wipper Coins From the Balan Collection

28.10.2021

Camille Pissarro: Une Place à la Roche-Guyon — © SPK / photothek.de / Janine Schmitz

Nazi-Looted Art: Artwork by Camille Pissarro Restituted and Reacquired for the Alte Nationalgalerie

19.10.2021

View of the east and north facades of the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace — © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / GIULIANI I VON GIESE

The Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst Open Exhibition Spaces in the West Wing at the Humboldt Forum

21.09.2021

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in the Neues Museum on the Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

Federal Government Funding Three-Year Research Project on Human Remains From West Africa at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte

14.09.2021

Ólafur Elíasson, A View Becomes A Window, Installation view Neues Museum, Berlin 2021 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Olafur Eliasson’s “A View Becomes a Window” Opens at the Neues Museum on 23 September 2021

13.09.2021

Musical and dance performance in the harem, from an Indo-Persianate album of Antoine Louis Polier, I 4594, fol. 19, Delhi or Faizabad before 1777 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Johannes Kramer

Workshop on the Role of Eighteenth-Century Indo-Persianate Albums from 15 to 17 September 2021

07.09.2021

Visitors of the Rembrandt exhibition with paintings from the Gemäldegalerie (East) and the Gemäldegalerie (West) in the Altes Museum, 1991 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv

Callout for Contributions to the Exhibition “Re-United – An Exhibition Featuring Your Museum Memories”

07.09.2021

Visitors to the Neue Nationalgalerie — © Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2021 /Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt, 2021

The Education and Outreach Semi-Annual Programmes “Bildung und Vermittlung 2/2021” Are Here!

01.09.2021

This letter is the first of almost 100 in the collection sent by Schliemann, and dates from 1 January 1880. In this piece, the excavator expresses his first thoughts about donating his collection of Trojan antiquities to Germany. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Horst Junker

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Secures the Documentation on the Acquisition History of the Berlin Troy Collection of Heinrich Schliemann

29.07.2021

James-Simon-Galerie, Museumsinsel Berlin — © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects

The James-Simon-Galerie Receives the RIBA International Award for Excellence in 2021

26.07.2021

The two princesses, after Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764 –1850); Double Statue of Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia; Master model, 1926; Plaster, shellacked; 174 x 91 x 67 cm; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei, R-03112 (Original: 1795, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei / 3D-Digitalisierung, Virtual Exhibition, Post-Produktion: Studio Jester Blank, 2021

App on the Exhibition Near Life Released

09.07.2021

Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin from 8 July to 12 August 2021 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ute Klein

Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin from 8 July to 12 August 2021

01.07.2021

Banner: Museum Sunday Berlin — © www.buerobumbum.com / www.sany.dk

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Participating in “Museum Sunday”

21.06.2021

Rauf auf die Insel! Ein Sommerprogramm auf der Museumsinsel — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Get Away to the (Museum) Island! A Summer Programme of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin 2021

10.06.2021

Von links nach rechts: Heike Kropff, Maria López-Fanjul, Christina Haak, Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media Monika Grütters, Hortensia Völckers — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media Opens lab.Bode Finale on the Museumsinsel

25.05.2021

View through the Kolonnaden to the Alte Nationalgalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The Majority of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Museums Reopen to the Public on Friday, 21 May 2021

18.05.2021

The Alte Nationalgalerie and the Neue Museum at dusk — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Open-Air Cinema: The 2021 Berlinale Summer Special on Berlin’s Museumsinsel

11.05.2021

Xanten Youth, Roman, between 1st C. BC and 1st C. AD — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius; CC NC-BY-SA

Academy Lecture Series “The End of Rome: A World in Transition” Now Available Online

22.04.2021

Virtual Tour of the Special Exhibition Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Wolfgang Gülcker

From Fake Flora to a Gold Robbery: A Virtual Tour through the History of the Bode-Museum

13.04.2021

Banner for „Cinderella, Sindbad & Sinuhe", detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

Exhibition From Cinderella to Sindbad on Display in Abu Dhabi Since 4 April 2021

06.04.2021

#FragtDieProvenienzForscher_innen: A Participatory Call to Action for the 3rd International Day of Provenance Research — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Zentralarchiv

#FragtDieProvenienzForscher_innen: A Participatory Call to Action for the 3rd International Day of Provenance Research

01.04.2021

360-degree tour through the special exhibition “Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism” at the Alte Nationalgalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Reich

Decadence and Digital Dreams: Virtual Exhibition on Belgian Symbolism Now Online

31.03.2021

Exhibition guide “Eine Reise durchs Museum für Islamische Kunst” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst

Pergamonmuseum Reopens with New Exhibition Guide for Children

16.03.2021

Professor Dr. Bernhard Weisser, director of the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

New Chairman of the Numismatic Commission of the States in the Federal Republic of Germany

26.02.2021

Nefertiti Bust, Egypt, Tell el-Amarna, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1351–1334 BC, donated by James Simon — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

New Online Feature on the Nefertiti Bust

09.02.2021

Pre-drawn pattern of a contemporary ‘Ajami decoration — © SHAP © Ziad Baydoun (CC-BY-NC-ND)

“Interactive Heritage Map of Syria” to Receive Further Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2021

28.01.2021

Relief mit Darstellung Assurnasirpals II. bei der Löwenjagd, Detail, moderner Gipsabguss — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer

Instagram Live Tours through Additional Museums and Exhibitions Starting 22 Januar 2021

21.01.2021

"Dark Water, Burning World" by Issam Kourbaj — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Mourad Kourbaj

New “Historical” Object at the Museum für Islamische Kunst: Issam Kourbaj’s “Dark Water, Burning World“

21.01.2021

"Dark Water, Burning World" by Issam Kourbaj — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Mourad Kourbaj

New “Historical” Object at the Museum für Islamische Kunst: Issam Kourbaj’s “Dark Water, Burning World“

21.01.2021

Exhibition view "Decadence and Dark Dreams. Belgian Symbolism", Alte Nationalgalerie, 2020 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Digital Decadence: Online Content on the Special Exhibition Decadence and Dark Dreams: Belgian Symbolism

16.12.2020

Book cover: "Münzkabinett - Menschen, Münzen, Medaillen", detail — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Gestaltung Jan Hawemann

Numismatic Book Presentation and Discussion on 10 December 2020: The Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, in the Year 2030?

08.12.2020

Anna Franziska Schwarzbach with the statue of Lise Meitner she created in the main courtyard of the Humboldt University. — © Photo: Matthias Heyde, HU Berlin

Anna Franziska Schwarzbach will receive the International Prize for Medal Art „J. Sanford Saltus Award“ on 3 December 2020

02.12.2020

Exhibition “Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

New Online Offers for the Exhibition „Plain Talk: About the History of the Bode-Museum“

27.11.2020

Fernand Khnopff, The Caresses, Detail, 1896 — © Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels / akg-images

Live Tours Through Museums and Exhibitions in November and December 2020

26.11.2020

Svea Finck, “Tell mE HoW tO bE A WOmEn”, 1st prize winner in the “Three Graces” Competition for Emerging Medallion Artists — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Johannes Kramer

Winners of the “Three Graces” Competition for Emerging Medallion Artists Announced

23.11.2020

Bust of Flora, Bode-Museum, Conservation Department, Berlin — © Leif Karpe

Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora: ARTE Documentary on an Early 20th Century Berlin Art Scandal

19.11.2020

Exhibition view Ideal and Form, Friedrichswerdersche Kirche 2020 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche and Alte Nationalgalerie Online: Live Tour of the Special Exhibitions in November 2020

17.11.2020

The James-Simon-Galerie on the Museumsinsel Berlin with its colonnades made of white exposed concrete — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

James-Simon-Galerie Wins the ArchitekturPreis Berlin in 2020

04.11.2020

© Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Temporarily Closed From 2 November 2020

30.10.2020

The Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Statement on the Act of Vandalism on 3 October 2020 in Museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin

21.10.2020

View of the East Facade of the Humboldt Forum — © SHF / GIULIANI | VON GIESE

Humboldt Forum to Open on 17 December 2020

15.10.2020

Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, exterior view — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Reopening of the Friedrichswerdersche Kirche on 27 October 2020

06.10.2020

MUSEUM – The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (German only) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSEUM, IV, 2020 — The Programme Magazine for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is Available!

05.10.2020

Bode-Museum and Pergamonmuseum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: David von Becker

The Bode-Museum and Pergamonmuseum Reopen on 3 October 2020

24.09.2020

Statue of the archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Andres Kilger

Restorer-Conservators Seeking Historical Close-Up Photographs of a Statue of the Archaeologist Winckelmann

18.09.2020

The James-Simon-Galerie and the Pergamonmuseum on the Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Information about the Reopening of Additional Locations as of September 2020

31.08.2020

MUSEUM III 2020 – The program of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSEUM, III, 2020 — The Programme Magazine for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is Available!

24.07.2020

Amin Fallaha in the Egyptian Court of the Neues Museum — © DUAT Records / Pujan Shakupa

The Ägyptisches Museum and DUAT Records Support United We Stream: Concert and DJ Session at the Neues Museum on 26 July 2020

21.07.2020

The James-Simon-Galerie and the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Academy Lecture Series „Netzwerk Museumsinsel" Available Online

26.06.2020

Get Away to the (Museum) Island! Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Summer Programme Begins on 30 June 2020 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Get Away to the (Museum) Island! Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Summer Programme Begins on 30 June 2020

25.06.2020

Banner at the Altes Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Fabian Fröhlich

Statement on the Demonstrations on the Museumsinsel Berlin

24.06.2020

Kolonnadenhof auf der Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Bernd Weingart

Restricted Telephone Service at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from 22 to 26 June 2020

18.06.2020

Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

The Neues Museum, Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstbibliothek, Museum für Fotografie and Museum Europäischer Kulturen Reopen in June

12.06.2020

The Museumsinsel’s colonnades to be restored to their original condition — © SPK / photothek.net / Thomas Imo

Back to Stüler: The Museumsinsel’s Colonnades to Be Restored to Their Original Condition

05.06.2020

Front and back of an annual card with a motif from the Nationalgalerie: Edouard Manet, In the Conservatory, 1878-79 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Annual Tickets Extended by Two Months

14.05.2020

Collage mit Coverabbildungen der drei Ausgaben des Buches "Antikensammlung Sammlung Berlin. Meisterwerke antiker Skulptur" von Andreas Scholl — © Verlag C.H.Beck

New Book on the Antikensammlung: Masterpieces of Ancient Sculpture

14.05.2020

Visitor in the Gemäldegalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Fabian Fröhlich

Information about the Opening of Selected Museums from 12 May 2020

05.05.2020

Screenshot aus dem Film „James Simon. Erste Schenkung an das Kaiser Friedrich Museum“ — © James Simon-Gesellschaft / art/beats

New Online Offers: From James Simon to Vanessa Beecroft, and from Hugo von Tschudi to Nevin Aladağ

30.04.2020

The James-Simon-Galerie on the Museumsinsel Berlin with its colonnades of white exposed concrete — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The James-Simon-Galerie Wins the Architekturpreis Beton in 2020

30.04.2020

A deserted Processional Way, with bas-reliefs of lions passant made of glazed bricks, 6th c. BC — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Prepares to Open Some of its Museums

29.04.2020

#ClosedButOpen at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

New Online Offers: Post-Pandemic Design, Faience and Fragments

23.04.2020

#ClosedButOpen at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

New Online Offers: Magical Talismans, Jazz in the Garden and #CollectingCorona

16.04.2020

#ClosedButOpen: Easter at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

#ClosedButOpen: Easter at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

09.04.2020

Screenshot, ARTE Mediathek: The Art of Museums - Die Alte Nationalgalerie — © ARTE G.E.I.E.

Until June 2020, back on ARTE: The Art of Museums – The Alte Nationalgalerie

07.04.2020

500th Anniversary of the Death of Raphael: Catalogue "Raphael in Berlin" — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

500th Anniversary of the Death of Raphael: Publication on the Lost Tapestries and Catalogue of the Highlights of the Berlin Collection

06.04.2020

Pergamon Altar, view of the Gigantomachy frieze / north risalit. A complete and richly detailed 3D model of the Pergamon Altar created as part of a digital scanning project is now available online. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Overview of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Offers Online

24.03.2020

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin derzeit geschlossen — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Information about the Closing of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Beginning 14 March 2020

12.03.2020

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Current Information Regarding COVID-19 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: Current Information Regarding COVID-19

11.03.2020

Evenings in the "Verstärker” — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Evenings in the “Verstärker”: What’s Your Thing, Dude?

11.03.2020

Vestibule of the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

Maintenance: Neues Museum will remain closed from 23 to 25 March 2020

09.03.2020

Register now for the Easter holiday programme 2020! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Markus Glahn

Register Now for the Easter Holiday Programme 2020

06.03.2020

Jenny Holzer, Survival: Men don't protect you anymore, view Kolonnadenhof, Museumsinsel Berlin, Courtesy Sprüth Magers — © 1984 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

Jenny Holzer’s “Men Don’t Protect You Anymore” on Display in the Kolonnadenhof on the Museumsinsel in Berlin

06.03.2020

Ralph Gleis, head of the Alte Nationalgalerie; Antoine Pihier, 125,000th visitor to the exhibition Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919; Yvette Deseyve, curator for sculpture and the plastic arts at the Alte Nationalgalerie; and Udo Kittelmann, director of the Nationalgalerie (from left to right) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / David von Becker

125,000th Visitor to the Exhibition “Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919”

02.03.2020

Tirol, Zamser Retabel, Detail, um 1485, Nadelholz, gefasst — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Reinhard Saczewski

International Women’s Day: Depictions and Conceptions of Women at the Bode-Museum

24.02.2020

Event at Haus Bastian - Zentrum für Kulturelle Bildung — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt, 2019

Family Action Day, the Closing Event of the Exhibition “Near Life: The Gipsformerei – 200 Years of Casting Plaster” on 1 March 2020

21.02.2020

Berlin Says Thank You! — © Senatskanzlei Berlin / Blumberry

Activity Day: "Berlin Says Thank You!” on 7 March 2020 at the Bode-Museum and Pergamonmuseum

20.02.2020

The James-Simon-Galerie on the Museumsinsel Berlin — © Ute Zscharnt for David Chipperfield Architects

James-Simon-Galerie Awarded the 2020 DAM Prize

07.02.2020

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Welcome More than 4 Million Visitors in 2019 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: David von Becker

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Welcome More than 4 Million Visitors in 2019

31.01.2020

Discounted admission for customers of German savings banks (Sparkassen) and the Feuersozietät Berlin Brandenburg in 2020 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Discounted admission for customers of German savings banks (Sparkassen) and the Feuersozietät Berlin Brandenburg in 2020

27.01.2020

MUSEUM I 2020 - The program of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSEUM I 2020 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

02.01.2020

Academy programme of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Marcus Glahn

Booking for the new Academy programme opens on 9 January 2020

19.12.2019

Alte Nationalgalerie, Luftbildaufnahme, 2019 — © Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Stefan Müchler

Museumsinsel Berlin – 20 Years as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

04.12.2019

Panorama PERGAMON mit Blick von oberster Besucherplattform auf das Theater und die Akropolis — © asisi / Tom Schulze

German Design Award for "PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi"

25.11.2019

Hermann Parzinger (third from the left), President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Khaled Galal Abdelhamid, Embassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt (second from the left), signing the agreement in the presence of Friederike Seyfried, Director of the Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung (fourth from the left) — © Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Birgit Jöbstl

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussamlung: Partner of the New Akhenaten Museum in Egypt

22.11.2019

Large plate, Valencia, Spain, first half of the 16th c., lusterware with inscriptions in cobalt blue (left), and bowl with knight illustration, Iran, 13th c. (right), Ludwig Collection — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Fischer

First Loans from the Long-Term Collaboration with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation Go on Display

20.11.2019

Haus Bastian, Verstärker — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Evenings in the "Verstärker": New Event Series at Haus Bastian

18.10.2019

MUSEUM IV 2019 – The program of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSEUM IV 2019 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

01.10.2019

2. Europäischer Tag der Restaurierung am 13. Oktober 2019 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Second European Day of Conservation-Restoration on 13 October 2019

30.09.2019

Erfolg für Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama: Andreas Scholl, Direktor der Antikensammlung – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (links) und Künstler Yadegar Asisi (rechts) begrüßen die 250.000 Besucher*innen Angela Markham und David Bremner — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Harry Schnitger

250,000th Visitor Views PERGAMON: Masterworks from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360 Panorama by Yadegar Asisi

26.09.2019

The Second Glance — © Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Bode Museum

Exhibition Series The Second Glance Kicks Off in the Bode-Museum on September 5 2019 with the Opening of All Forms of Love

23.08.2019

Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

“Notturno” Concert at the Neues Museum on 11 September 2019

22.08.2019

Long Night of Museums on 31. August 2019 — © Lange Nacht der Museen

Long Night of Museums on 31 August 2019

21.08.2019

Telephos-Fries in changierendem Licht — © asisi / Tom Schulze

Red Dot Design Award for “PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi”

19.08.2019

The James-Simon-Galerie at the Museumsinsel — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The Pergamonmuseum a Hit with Crowds: Due to Capacity Limits, Timed Tickets Become Obligatory

16.08.2019

BEE at the Museum: Talks on Bee-Related Topics on 22 August 2019 at the James-Simon-Galerie and the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin

BEE at the Museum: Talks on Bee-Related Topics on 22 August 2019 at the James-Simon-Galerie

06.08.2019

Großes Eröffnungswochenende im Haus Bastian, dem neuen Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Leo Leowald

Grand Opening Weekend at Haus Bastian: The New Centre for Cultural Education

05.08.2019

Activity Day for the Opening of the James-Simon Galerie on 13 July 2019 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The James-Simon-Galerie Attracts More Than 40,000 Visitors on Its Opening Weekend

15.07.2019

David Chipperfield, Mayor Michael Müller Ann and Timothy M. Simon, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger, Monika Grütters and Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer at the opening of the James-Simon-Galerie on 12 July 2019 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

The James-Simon-Galerie is Now Open

12.07.2019

The Reinstallation of the James Simon Cabinet — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Antje Voigt

The Reinstallation of the James Simon Cabinet in the Bode-Museum

09.07.2019

MUSEUM III 2019 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

MUSEUM III 2019 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

01.07.2019

James-Simon-Galerie, view towards the main entrance — © Ute Zscharnt für / for David Chipperfield Architects

Activity Day to Celebrate the Opening of the James-Simon-Galerie on 13 July 2019

27.06.2019

The Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Florian Gaertner

Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin from 4 July to 15 August 2019

21.06.2019

100,000th Visitor Views "Cinderella, Sindbad & Sinuhe" at the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung

100,000th Visitor Views "Cinderella, Sindbad & Sinuhe" at the Neues Museum

11.06.2019

August Gaul’s "Reclining Lion" in the foyer of the James-Simon-Galerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

August Gaul’s "Reclining Lion" from the Rudolf Mosse Collection Soon on Display in the James-Simon-Galerie

22.05.2019

Family Activity Day at the Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

The Museumsinsel Invites Parents and Children to the Family Activity Day on 2 June 2019

21.05.2019

The Summer Holiday Programme 2019 is online — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Juliane Eirich

Summer Holiday Programme 2019

18.05.2019

"Mschatta-Lounge" concerts — © Charlotte Driessen

“Mschatta-Lounge” Concerts to Run from June to September 2019 at the Pergamonmuseum

16.05.2019

“Die Kunst der Sprache. Die Sprache der Kunst” (The Art of Language. The Language of Art). Learning Spanish at the Bode-Museum with the Instituto Cervantes — © Anna Talens / enblanco studio

The Art of Language for Everyone: Learn Spanish at the Bode-Museum

14.05.2019

Die Zimmerleute halten den Zimmermannsspruch — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pergamonmuseum Celebrates Topping-Out Ceremony

06.05.2019

MUSEUM II 2019 – The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museum II 2019 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

02.04.2019

The artistic easter egg hunt at Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is starting! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt, 2019

Register now for the Easter holiday programme 2019

20.03.2019

Haus Bastian of Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz — © Joana Pratschke

An Immensely Generous Gift: Key Handover for Haus Bastian

13.03.2019

Vestibule of the Neues Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

Maintenance: Neues Museum will remain closed from 25th to 27th March 2019

06.03.2019

Mariana Castillo Deball — © Photo: Michael Danner

Mariana Castillo Deball Designs a Work of Art for the Ethnologisches Museum

05.03.2019

Online now: mantegnabellini.de — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Foto: Ceren Topcu

Now Online: mantegnabellini.de

26.02.2019

Making of the virtual museum as a model — © ZDF/men work Media Services S.R.L.

Experience Ancient Palmyra in 360° and in 3D

26.02.2019

DER ALTAR – von Pergamon nach Berlin: Eine Zeitreise, novel by Ralf Nürnberger, cover — © Eigenverlag der Panometer GmbH

"DER ALTAR – von Pergamon nach Berlin: Eine Zeitreise" – A new novel by Ralf Nürnberger

21.02.2019

THE SOUND OF SCIENCE: Das verschwundene Pyramidenfragment — © Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Foto: K. Hasselmann

Premiere – on 28 February 2019 – of the Second Episode of Hinter den Dingen: A History of Knowledge Podcast Set in the Ägyptisches Museum

19.02.2019

Augmented Reality App of the TAMAM-Project — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst

The Museum für Islamische Kunst Releases an Augmented Reality App as Part of the TAMAM Project

13.02.2019

Apollo, Jupiter, Antinous, Meleager, Herkules, Hermes im Humboldt Forum (v.l.n.r.) — © SHF / David von Becker

Schlüter Sculptures Originally at the Berlin Palace Move from the Bode-Museum to the Humboldt Forum

12.02.2019

Zur Aktion "Berlin sagt Danke!" führen die Guides von Multaka in arabischer Sprache durch die Sammlungen. — © StaatlicheMuseen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Milena Schlösser

Berlin Says Thank You – and is Joined Again by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin!

31.01.2019

Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung im Neuen Museum (rechts, links zu sehen ist die James-Simon-Galerie), Herbst 2018 — © Ute Zscharnt für David Chipperfield Architects

The Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung to Join the EU Project “Transforming the Egyptian Museum Cairo”

30.01.2019

Der Rundgang im 360°-Panorama von Yadegar Asisi zaubert große Augen in kleine Gesichter — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Christof Hannemann

Family Activity Day at Pergamonmuseum: Das Panorama on 27 January 2019

11.01.2019

MUSEUM I 2019 – The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museum I 2019 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

02.01.2019

from left to right: Ralph Gleis, Head of the Alte Nationalgalerie, Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie, Christoph Müller, donor, Kerstin Krainer, conservator-restorer, Alte Nationalgalerie, Michael Eissenhauer, Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Foto: David von Becker

Restoring a Donation: Henriette von Carlowitz

18.12.2018

Handover of the James-Simon-Galerie to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin — © SPK/photothek.net/Thomas Trutschel

Handover of the James-Simon-Galerie to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

13.12.2018

Papyrus from ancient Egypt with the Story of Sinuhe (detail) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) receives additional funding of 3.3 million euros

14.11.2018

Traditionelles fidschianisches Doppelrumpf-Segelboot im Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, aktuell zu sehen im National Maritime Museum in London — © National Maritime Museum, London

Double-Hulled Sailing Boat from the South Pacific for the Junior Areas of the Ethnologisches Museum at the Humboldt Forum

06.11.2018

Bewegte Zeiten. Archäologie in Deutschland. Keyvisual der Ausstellung — © smithberlin.com

The Original Nebra Sky Disc on Display for Just One More Week

31.10.2018

museum4punkt0: digitale Technologien eröffnen neue Erlebniswelten im Museum — © SPK / Stephanie Scholz

museum4punkt0: Digital Technologies Open New Experiential Worlds in Museums

31.10.2018

Michel Erhart, Thronende Muttergottes mit Kind, um 1480, Lindenholz, Zustand nach der Restaurierung (Detail) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / A. Voigt

Bank of America Merrill Lynch enables the restoration of three key works from the fifteenth century

18.10.2018

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair

12.10.2018

European Day of Conservation-Restoration — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

The European Day of Conservation-Restoration on 14 October 2018

04.10.2018

Museum IV 2018 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now! — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museum IV 2018 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

01.10.2018

PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi — © Asisi

Ticket-Presale for "PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi" starts

27.09.2018

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie / Valerie Schmidt

Academy 2018: Tickets still available

21.09.2018

Group portrait with Assyrian queen (left to right: Stefan Geismeier, Nadja Cholidis, Lutz Martin, Helen Gries and Daniel Meyer) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Photo: Olaf M. Teßmer

Vorderasiatisches Museum Makes a Spectacular Find

13.09.2018

Screenshot der neu eingerichteten Themenseite der Museumsinsel Berlin bei Google Arts & Culture — © Google Inc.

Extensive Presentation of Museum Island Berlin on Google Arts & Culture

11.09.2018

Senem Görken and Björn Hangebrauck with Ralph Gleis, head of Alte Nationalgalerie (l.), Birgit Verwiebe, curator of the exhibition (second from r.) and Gabriel Montua, co-curator of the exhibition (r.) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

"Wanderlust" has welcomed 150,000 visitors: The exhibition closes Sunday, September 16, 2018

06.09.2018

Writer and academic Patrice Nganang in discussion at the Bode-Museum — © Patrice Nganang

Postcolonial Discourse: Patrice Nganang in Conversation in Berlin

04.09.2018

Aktionstag Familie auf der Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Free Entry on the Museumsinsel for our Family Activity Day

03.09.2018

Alte Nationalgalerie — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Photo: Maximilian Meisse

Alte Nationalgalerie will have to remain closed from 24 to 28 August 2018

24.08.2018

Long Night of Museums 2018 — © Kulturprojekte Berlin

Long Night of Museums on 25th August 2018

20.08.2018

Studierende in der Skulpturensammlung des Bode-Museums — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Valerie Schmidt

MEETING / Bode-Museum – Studierende vermitteln Kunst

13.07.2018

Südsee-Häuser im Ethnologischen Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Claudia Obrocki

The South Sea houses are moving house: more large objects leave the Ethnologisches Museum for the Humboldt Forum

11.07.2018

"HERE WE ARE!" on the Museums-Island — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Anika Büssemeier

Start of the Education and Outreach Project HERE WE ARE! on the Museumsinsel Berlin

09.07.2018

The new program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museum III 2018 - The program of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is out now!

06.07.2018

Linumer Einbaum: Das älteste Wassergefährt Brandenburgs zieht ins Neue Museum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Foto: Cl. Klein

Linum Dugout Canoe: Brandenburg’s Oldest Waterborne Vessel Moves into the Neues Museum

04.07.2018

Hans Multscher Umkreis, Three Angels with the Baby Jesus, Relief, basswood — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Antje Voigt

Restitution and Re-Acquisition: Three Angels with the Baby Jesus from the Saulmann collection to stay in the Bode-Museum

25.06.2018

Calabash, workshop of Abdallah Said Mkundi, Mohoro, next to a photo of a calabash from the medicine bag in the Ethnologisches Museum — © Lili Reyels

Book Launch – Humboldt Lab Tanzania on 25 June 2018

21.06.2018

TAPE OVER, Tape Art Aktion im Museum für Islamische Kunst, Ausstellungsansicht, 2018 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Street Art at the Museum für Islamische Kunst: Live Tape Action on 22 June 2018

18.06.2018

In der Baustelle erhebt sich die Kuppel — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Arrival of the Cupola of the Cave of the Ring-Bearing Doves at the Humboldt Forum

18.06.2018

Hanging of the PERGAMON Panorama — © Photo: Tom Schulze / asisi

Hanging of the PERGAMON Panorama

13.06.2018

Hängung der ersten Gemälde im Rembrandt-Saal im Neubau der Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum, 1997 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

20 Years of the Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum

12.06.2018

Kolonnaden Bar auf der Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Florian Gärtner

Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin, open 7 – 10 p.m. every Thursday from 14 June 2018

07.06.2018

Fragment einer Wandverkleidung, Samarra (Irak), 836-892, Gips, geformt, geschnitten, durchbohrt — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Christian Krug

Private funding allows a large selection of objects from the collection of the Museum für Islamische Kunst to be digitally catalogued and published online

07.06.2018

Aktionstag Familie auf der Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Free Entry on the Museumsinsel for our Family Activity Day

06.06.2018

Paul Gauguin, Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889, Oil on canvas — © Nationalgalerie Prag

“Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin” on view until June 3 as part of the exhibition “Wanderlust” at Alte Nationalgalerie

31.05.2018

Silk Road Symphony Orchestra — © Callias Foundation

Concert on eve of the 2018 UNESCO World Heritage Day: Silk Road Symphony Orchestra on 2 June 2018 at the Neues Museum

17.05.2018

Ägyptisches Ton-Ostrakon aus Elephantine, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Ostraca 3144 — © Foto: Verena Lepper

ERC Project ELEPHANTINE Exhibition at the Harvard University: Pots as Post-Its: Daily Life Captured on Ancient Egyptian Ostraca

07.05.2018

Interim „Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama“, as seen from outside, visualisation 2018 — © Spreeformat Architekten

PERGAMON. Masterpieces from the Ancient Metropolis with a 360° Panorama by Yadegar Asisi will be on view from fall 2018

26.04.2018

Neues Museum, south side with south dome, Alte Nationalgalerie in the background. Museumsinsel Berlin. Bodestraße. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

The Neues Museum will close on 24 April 2018 at 5 p.m.

20.04.2018

v.l.n.r.: Rolf Aschermann (Rotary Club Berlin-Süd), Egbert Broerken (Bildhauer), Christoph Brewka (Präsident Rotary Club Berlin-Süd), Heike Kropff (Leiterin der Abteilung Bildung/Kommunikation – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Volker Pellet (Präsident Rotary Club Berlin-Nord) bei dem erweiterten Tastmodell der Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Handover ceremony for newly expanded tactile model of Berlin’s Museum Island

20.03.2018

Bernhard Weisser mit Erivan und Helga Haub (v.l.n.r.) sowie ihrer Familie 2009 in dem Ausstellungsraum des Münzkabinetts im Pergamonmuseum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett

Münzkabinett mourns the passing of patron Erivan Haub

19.03.2018

North and West facade of the Humboldt Forum — © SHF / Architekt: Franco Stella mit FS HUF PG

Lars-Christian Koch elected director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s collections at the Humboldt Forum

19.03.2018

„Concordia“, Ausstellungsansicht Alte Nationalgalerie, v.l.n.r. Udo Kittelmann (Direktor der Nationalgalerie) mit den Schenkern Oliver Lepsius und Susanne Lepsius und Ralph Gleis (Leiter der Alten Nationalgalerie), Michael Eissenhauer (Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

The Nationalgalerie is presented with an important work by the Munich painter, Leo von Klenze – special exhibition from 28 March 2018

28.02.2018

Putto mit Panther als alleg. Gruppe „Frühling“ aus Folge der Vier Jahreszeiten, Frankenthaler Porzellanmanufaktur (Straßburg oder Frankenthal), um 1754, Entwurf v. Johann Wilhelm Lanz; 2017 als verfolgungsbedingt entzogenes Kulturgut restituiert an die Erben von Margarete Oppenheim und für das Kunstgewerbemuseum zurückgekauft. — © Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Saturia Linke

Works from the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Skulpturensammlung restituted to Oppenheim heirs

22.01.2018

Vestibül des Neuen Museums — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Achim Kleuker

The Neues Museum will close on 23 January 2018 at 4 p.m.

18.01.2018

Rabattierter Eintritt in 2018 für Kunden der deutschen Sparkassen und der Feuersozietät Berlin Brandenburg — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Discounted admission for customers of German savings banks (Sparkassen) and the Feuersozietät Berlin Brandenburg

15.12.2017

China and Egypt. Cradles of the World, exhibition graphic, composed of: You wine vessel shaped as an owl/Standing figure of the jackal-headed god Anubis/Dui food vessel/Statuette of a servant/Heart scarab — © Shanghai Museum, China / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

More than 320,000 people have already seen ‘China and Egypt: Cradles of the World’ on show for just one last weekend, until 3 December

30.11.2017

Prof. Dr. Michael Eissenhauer, Generaldirektor der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin und Direktor der Gemäldegalerie sowie Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Daniel Hofer

Interview with Michael Eissenhauer: ‘Comprehending the World in its Entirety’

22.11.2017

Aktionstag: Auf dem Weg zum Humboldt Forum — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Activities Day: On the Way to the Humboldt Forum

16.11.2017

Museumsinsel Berlin set to expand to include Haus Bastian: Donation agreement already signed — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Museumsinsel Berlin set to expand to include Haus Bastian: Donation agreement already signed

29.09.2017

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

Family Activities Day at the Museumsinsel Berlin on Sunday, 17 September 2017

08.09.2017

Delegationsbesuch in der Restaurierungswerkstatt im Archäologischen Zentrum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

International delegation pays visit to the Museumsinsel

18.07.2017

Mit dem „Aktionstag Museumsinsel“ startet das Veranstaltungsprogramm „Connections“. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Valerie Schmidt

The events programme ‘Connections’ begins with the ‘Museumsinsel Activities Day’

09.06.2017

Haus Bastian (links), James-Simon-Galerie und Pergamonmuseum — © Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Birgit Jöbstl

No Endowment After All: Surprise Decision by Heiner Bastian

04.05.2017

Haus Bastian (links), James-Simon-Galerie und Pergamonmuseum — © Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Birgit Jöbstl

Museumsinsel Will Acquire a Centre for Cultural Education and Learning in 2017

04.10.2016

Kolonnadenhof mit Blick auf Altes Museum und Neues Museum, Museumsinsel Berlin — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Bernd Weingart

UNESCO-World Heritage Day on the Museumsinsel

05.06.2016

The image shows students during the excursion. — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Forum K&B, Lisa Rohwedder

Local high school takes over the Museumsinsel Berlin

22.04.2015

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin supports Earth Hour 2013

21.03.2013