Museumsinsel Berlin: Current

Currently, only selected museums, exhibitions and institutions of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are open to the public. Visits to any of these venues require a time-slot ticket. You can purchase these online or at the ticket counters in the museums. Read more

Current exhibitions

Travelling in the Second Cataract region on camelback (Ph. 5894) — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Fotoarchiv.

Neues Museum
Photographic Memories – Nubia around 1900

06.03.2020 to 30.08.2020

Bronze jewellery in figure of a ram, bronze, Marzahn, ca. 100 BCE — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Cl. Klein

Neues Museum
Berlin’s Largest Excavation
Research Area Biesdorf

02.10.2019 to 04.01.2021

Bildnis des griechischen Philosophen Sokrates — © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München / Renate Kühling

Altes Museum
Tough Types. Portraits of Ancient Greeks

19.06.2019 to 27.09.2020

Prometheus group — © 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 CE. — © Römisch-Germanisches Museum/Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne

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

19.10.2017 to 25.09.2022

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

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

20.12.2016 until further notice

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

Neues Museum
Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age

29.06.2014 until further notice

Raumansicht mit dem Betenden Knaben — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung / Johannes Laurentius

Altes Museum
Ancient Worlds. Greeks, Etruscans and Romans

24.02.2011 until further notice

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

Neues Museum
Ancient Egypt

17.10.2009 until further notice

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

17.10.2009 until further notice

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

Until further notice