Big opening weekend for 200 years of Museumsinsel Berlin (30. May – 1. June 2025): Ticket sales started! With the Island Festival Ticket you can visit all the museums on Museum Island for one day!

Past exhibitions

Terracotta of a saddled donkey
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Andreas Schröder

Neues Museum
Utterly Indispensable
The Donkey in the Ancient World

05.12.2024 to 04.05.2025

Demotischer Brief des Persischen Satrapen Pherendates an die Priester des Gottes Chnum von Elephantine wegen möglicher Stellenbesetzungen, Detail
© Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Sandra Steiß

James-Simon-Galerie
Elephantine
Island of the Millennia

26.04.2024 to 27.10.2024

Detail of the wall painting in the tomb of User, tomb lord with consort
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptischen Museums und Papyrussammlung / Sandra Steiß

Neues Museum
Robbed – Ransacked – Rescued [?]
The Tombs of the Qubbet el-Hawa North

15.09.2023 to 10.03.2024

“Archaeological Treasures of Uzbekistan. From Alexander the Great to the Kushan Empire”, exhibition view James-Simon-Galerie + Neues Museum, 2023
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

James-Simon-Galerie
Archaeological Treasures of Uzbekistan
From Alexander the Great to the Kushan Empire

04.05.2023 to 14.01.2024