An exclusive guided tour through the highlights of the Museums für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in the Neues Museum with Matthias Wemhoff himself? No problem!
With subtitles.
Length: 11:04 minutes
The fourth video in our series Kleine Kulturgeschichten des Alten Ägypten (Short Cultural Histories about Ancient Egypt; in German with English subtitles) is dedicated to “Einwegware” (Disposable Goods). This segment features pottery vessels – by far the largest collection of objects to have survived from ancient Egypt. Some types of this pottery have remained ubiquitous and can still be found in large quantities throughout the country.
Length: 4:43 minutes
In the film series A Little Cultural History of Ancient Egypt, the director of the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Friederike Seyfried, presents selected objects from the exhibition at the Neues Museum and provides interesting background information, helping our visitors at home to get ready for their next trip to the museum.
Spring has well and truly sprung and nature is showing off its most beautiful colours and floral forms. In Ancient Egypt, flowers were not just pretty to look at but also imbued with religious symbolism and powers. In ‘Flower Magic’, the second episode in the series A Little Cultural History of Ancient Egypt, Friederike Seyfried presents a number of floral exhibits from the collection of the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung Berlin.
Length: 3:13 minutes
The second episode, “Cityscapes”, looks into the capital of Tell el-Amarna, which was founded by Akhenaten.
Length: 4:37 minutes
For the first time, the Germanic tribes will be the focus of a large-scale archaeological exhibition. In collaboration with the LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte is showing the special exhibition The Germanic Tribes: Archaeological Perspectives on Berlin’s Museumsinsel. The Neues Museum will present the shifting history of research into the Germanic tribes and its reception, while in the James-Simon-Galerie – which is reopening its doors to host the exhibition – more than 700 exhibits will be on display, including numerous new finds and outstanding loans from across Germany, Denmark, Poland and Romania.
Length: 19:40 minutes
Music: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
Length: 0:45 Minutes
Concept: polyform / studio edgar kandratian
Installation and grading: Willan Octave-Emile
Music: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
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Length: 25:32 Minutes
Production: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Christof Hannemann
What are the exhibition highlights in the eyes of our curators? Our special exhibition curator Susanne Kuprella gets the series off and running by presenting her own personal highlight.
Sometimes, the most inconspicuous objects can conceal the most remarkable stories. The perfect example of this is provided by two wooden idols from the Thuringian sacrificial bog of Oberdorla. If your first thought when it comes to Germanic gods is the hammer-wielding Thor or the omniscient Odin, father of the gods, you’ll probably be sorely disappointed…
Length: 3:09 minutes
Photo: Two anthropomorphic wooden idols from the sacrificial bog of Oberdorla, Vogtei, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis district. Height: 124 cm and 150 cm. © Thuringian State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments – Thuringian Museum of Pre- and Ancient History/Hauke Arnold music during credits: Fornnordiska Klanger. Research and production by Casja S. Lund
Next up in our favourite objects series is not so much an object as an entire project. Curator Dr Heino Neumayer’s highlight is a graphic reconstruction of the abandoned Germanic settlement of Klein Köris, some 30 km south of Berlin. While the region of contemporary Brandenburg with its plentiful rivers and lakes was a popular area for human settlement between the 1st and 3rd century, in the 4th century, things changed dramatically.
The region was virtually deserted and came to resemble a wasteland. The former settlements were left as they were, and the communities likely moved to the south-west, to what today is Baden-Württemberg. The Migration Period began, completely recasting the maps of Europe. For archaeologists, however, the subterranean remains of such deserted settlements are a veritable treasure trove. The traces they harbour allow us to reconstruct entire villages and, as in the case of today’s open-air museum Germanische Siedlung Klein Köris e.V., to truly bring them back to life.
Length: 2:33 minutes
Photo: Reconstruction of daily life in the abandoned settlement of Klein Köris from the 4th century AD based on archaeological findings. © Mikko Kriek, 2020
The shield buckle from the princely tomb at Gommern
Length: 6:12 minutes
Opening and closing credits: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
Length: 13:40 minutes
Music: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
The Roman historian Tacitus said that there was nothing worthwhile in Germania. But what exactly did the Germanic tribes trade in and what appealed to Roman interests?
Our academic trainee at the Museum für Vor und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History), Sebastian Olschok, shows you in this video using examples from our Germanic exhibition.
Length: 5:28 minutes
Music: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
Odin, Thor, Loki and the entire pantheon of the gods: Who doesn’t know them all? But were they really the gods of the Germanic peoples from the 1st to the 4th century AD, the period in which we speak of Germanic peoples? Or is this perhaps a romanticised association with the Old Norse pantheon, which was first handed down to us in the 12th century , i.e. the Middle Ages? What can we actually grasp from the cultic and religious beliefs of the Germanic societies and what did they look like?
In our new video, Sebastian Olschok separates myths from verifiable facts. Roll the film!
Length: 9:29 minutes
Music: Old Fashioned Parlour Piano. Domansed; Ritt der Walküren. Richard Wagner
Opening and closing credits: Fornnordiska Klanger. Recherchiert und produziert von Casja S. Lund
Length: 8:07 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 6:06 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 9:22 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 6:44 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 5:43 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 5:43 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 6:49 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
Length: 5:45 minutes
Video: Kaptorga - Visual History
The cultures of Egypt and China are distinguished by a long history spanning several millennia. In the exhibition China and Egypt. Cradles of the World at the Neues Museum, treasures of Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Chinese art can be seen side-by-side. For the first time the show features scores of exhibits from China that have never gone to Europe before.
Lenght: 0.32 minutes
Länge: 3:12 Minuten
Produktion: Sammler und Jäger Filmproduktion GmbH
More Information: www.smb.museum/in-the-light-of-amarna