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Please note: Due to technical problems the James-Simon-Galerie has to remain partially closed from Friday, 11 July 2025, up to and including Friday, 18 July 2025. The exhibitions in the James-Simon-Galerie can still be visited during this time. More

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Towel with embroidered depictions of houses and gardens, detail, Turkey, late 18th century
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Claus Uhlendorf

Pergamonmuseum
Embroidered Gardens
Ottoman Textiles from the Borg Collection

16.12.2022 to 16.04.2023

Johann Gottfried Schadow, Double Statue of Princesses Luise and Friederike of Prussia, detail, 1795 (marble 1796/97), marble
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Alte Nationalgalerie
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Embracing Forms

21.10.2022 to 19.02.2023

Detail of a colored relief from the tomb of the official Merib
© Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Neues Museum
Adventures on the Nile
Prussia and Egyptology 1842–45

15.10.2022 to 07.03.2023

The “Heyl Aphrodite”
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Quantity and Quality
The World of Greek Terracottas

07.10.2022 to 14.01.2024

Porcelain body, detail
© Uli Aigner

Neues Museum
The Porcelain Code
One Million by Uli Aigner

06.10.2022 to 28.05.2023

A Yogini meets an ascetic, India, 17th century (detail
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Johannes Kramer

Pergamonmuseum
Mystical Encounters
Sufis, Kings and Yogini in Indian Miniature Painting

16.09.2022 to 04.12.2022

Andres Kilger, Eduard Müller, Prometheus, lamented by the Okeanides, detail, 1868 (executed 1872-79), plaster, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Silver gelatine print
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Alte Nationalgalerie
A Glimpse Behind the Scenes at the Nationalgalerie
Photographs by Andres Kilger

02.09.2022 to 27.11.2022

Max Liebermann, Flax Spinners in Laren, 1887
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Andres Kilger

Alte Nationalgalerie
My Liebermann
An Hommage

20.07.2022 to 13.11.2022

Renpet, Portrait of a Dancer, detail, acrylic on canvas
© Gail Rothschild, 2019

Bode-Museum
Think Big!
Gail Rothschild Paints Portraits of Late Antique Egyptian Textiles

01.07.2022 to 05.02.2023

Keyvisual for the exhibition "The Worlds of Schliemann“
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor und Frühgeschichte

James-Simon-Galerie
The Worlds of Schliemann
His Life. His Discoveries. His Legacy

13.05.2022 to 08.01.2023

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vahine no te Tiare. The Woman with the Flower, Detail, 1891
© Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

Alte Nationalgalerie
Paul Gauguin – Why Are You Angry?

26.03.2022 to 10.07.2022

Prehistoric pottery, 1913
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Ernst Herzfeld

Pergamonmuseum
Samarra Revisited
New Perspectives on the Excavation Photographs from the Palaces of the Caliph

04.03.2022 to 28.08.2022

Johann Wilhelm von (der) Kolm the Elder, mentioned 1693-1713, left: Elector Frederick III from Brandenburg (1657-1713), right: Sophie Charlotte, Electress of Brandenburg (1668-1705), Berlin, 1700, Coloured and painted wax on slate, fabric and gemstones, Acquired: From the Kunstkammer
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt

Bode-Museum
Sculptures in Wax

03.02.2022 to 03.07.2022

Almuth Lohmann-Zell, TRANSIDENT, Halle/Saale, 2017
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett / Johannes Eberhardt

Bode-Museum
Palm-Sized Art
Medallic Art in Germany from 2007 to the Present

28.01.2022 to 08.01.2023

Iran. Five Millennia of Art and Culture
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst

James-Simon-Galerie
Iran. Five Millennia of Art and Culture

04.12.2021 to 20.03.2022

Ali Kaaf. Ich bin Fremder. Zweifach Fremder, 2021, Installation, bedruckte und gefräste Aluminium Verbundplatten, gespritzte Holzplatten, Metall, 280 x 580 x 160 cm
© Ali Kaaf / Jörg von Bruchhausen

Pergamonmuseum
Ali Kaaf
I Am a Stranger: Twofold a Stranger

01.12.2021 to 20.02.2022

Gurbet Şarkıları – Songs from Foreign Lands. Music and Belonging between Turkey and Germany (1961–2021)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Museum für Islamische Kunst

Pergamonmuseum
Gurbet Şarkıları – Songs from Foreign Lands
Music and Belonging between Turkey and Germany (1961–2021)

12.11.2021 to 20.02.2022

Children and teenagers drawing in the exhibition, 1970s
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum

Pergamonmuseum
Nebuchadnezzar Under Socialism
The Vorderasiatisches Museum in the GDR

09.11.2021 to 08.01.2023

Scene from the Divan of Hafis, detail, Iran 1655-60
© The Sarikhani Collection, London

Pergamonmuseum
The Garden as a Place of Refuge
Persian Illuminated Manuscripts Meet Berlin-Style Allotment Idyll

30.10.2021 to 20.02.2022

The Second Glance: Women
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bode-Museum
The Second Glance: Women

30.10.2021 to 30.10.2022

Johann Erdmann Hummel, The Granite Bowl in the Lustgarten in Berlin, detail, 1831, oil on canvas
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders

Alte Nationalgalerie
Magical Reflections – Johann Erdmann Hummel

22.10.2021 to 20.02.2022

Statue of Apollo, Roman marble sculpture from the 2nd century AD with elements added in the 18th century
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Photo: Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Eye Tunes: The Sound of Music in Ancient Greece

26.08.2021 to 03.07.2022

Sistren tomb relief
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptische Museum und Papyrussammlung / photo: Sandra Steiß

Neues Museum
Soundscapes: Music in Ancient Egypt

21.05.2021 to 03.07.2022

Marianne Dietz, Greta Thunberg, plaster, 2020, loan
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett, photo: Johannes Kramer

Bode-Museum
From Eve to Greta
Women on Coins and Medallions

27.11.2020 to 06.01.2022

Market Gate of Miletus, reconstruction with modern additions, Roman, Trajanic, Miletus, around 100 AD.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius, CC NC-BY-SA

Pergamonmuseum
Architecture of Antiquity
Market Gate of Miletus

Permanent exhibition

Caucasian dragon rug from the 16th century
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Teßmer

Pergamonmuseum
Dream and Trauma
Reopening of the Carpet Rooms in the Museum für Islamische Kunst

Permanent exhibition

Interactive panel on the history of the game of chess between North Africa and Europe
© Marlene Kettner

Pergamonmuseum
Trans-cultural Relations, Global Biographies – Islamic Art?

Permanent exhibition

Schreitender Löwe von der Prozessionsstraße, Babylon, Zeit König Nebukadnezars II., 604–562 v. Chr.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum / Olaf M. Teßmer

Pergamonmuseum
Ancient Near Eastern Cultures

Permanent exhibition

Façade of the caliph’s palace of Mshatta in the Pergamonmuseum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Pergamonmuseum
Islamic Cultures

Permanent exhibition