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Current Exhibitions

Duvivier, Benjamin: George Washington ca. 1820-1835 — Image files are licensed as Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett of the Staatlichen Museen, 18321891. Photography by Karsten Dahmen. Medailleur: Pierre Simon Benjamin Duvivier.

Bode-Museum
Collection Intervention on the 250th anniversary of U. S. Independence

04.07.2026 until further notice

Portrait of former German chancellor Angela Merkel — © Jérémie Queyras / Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Charlen Christoph

Bode-Museum
The Portrait of the German Chancellor
First Unveiling of the Official Portrait of Former Chancellor Angela Merkel

01.07.2026 to 03.01.2027

View into the columned hall of the National Gallery, 1879 — © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv

Alte Nationalgalerie
Door to History

18.06.2026 until further notice

Jacek Malczewski, The Polish Hamlet – Portrait of Aleksander Wielopolski, 1903 — © Photo: Piotr Ligier / Muzeum Narodowe w War

Alte Nationalgalerie
InterNationalgalerie 1
National Museum in Warsaw

18.06.2026 to 17.01.2027

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

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

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