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Current exhibitions

Adolf Erman, c. 1900. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Egyptian Dictionary Archive, no accession number. — © Ägyptisches Wörterbuch

Neues Museum
100 Years of the Dictionary of the Egyptian Language

06.06.2026 to 31.12.2026

Edgar Degas, Orchestra Musicians, 1872 — © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Alte Nationalgalerie
Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionism

22.05.2026 to 27.09.2026

Hermione von Preuschen: Mors Imperator (detail), 1887, private property — © Alte Nationalgalerie, Mika Wißkirchen

Alte Nationalgalerie
Scandal!
Hermione von Preuschen and the “Mors Imperator”

22.03.2026 to 15.11.2026

Modern artist’s rendering of the round celestial image from Dendera on a ceiling in the Neues Museum (Detail) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Foto: Sandra Steiß

Neues Museum
Destiny in the Stars
The Beginnings of the Zodiac

21.03.2026 to 10.01.2027

Aerial view of Karahantepe — © Karahantepe Project Archive/Yusuf Aslan

James-Simon-Galerie
Building community
Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and life 12,000 years ago

06.02.2026 to 19.07.2026

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

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 10.01.2027

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 14.03.2027

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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