Please note: The Pergamonmuseum closes completely to visitors on 23 October 2023. (Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama will remain opened.) Longer opening hours at the Pergamonmuseum have been in effect since 1 July 2023. They will be extended again from 10 October until the museum closes for renovations. More

Past exhibitions

The Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–27) with his wife  on an imperial carpet with a lattice and flower pattern, probably from Kashmir, India or Lahore, present-day Pakistan, early 17th century, opaque watercolour and gold on paper
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Ingrid Geske

Pergamonmuseum
Pictures of Comfort and Design: Carpets in Indian Miniature Painting

20.10.2017 to 26.01.2018

Coptic papyrus codex containing the Book of Proverbs (copied in Egypt at the end of the 4th century, SB Oriental Department, Ms. or. oct. 987)
© Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK, Fotostelle

Pergamonmuseum
Testimonies of Faith. Biblical Traditions in the Islamic World

14.07.2017 to 15.10.2017

Die Staatsmänner Mahdi Quli Khan Majid ad-Dawla und Akbar Khan Nayeb Nazer spielen Schach in Gesellschaft von Mitgliedern des qadscharischen Hofs, 1893
© Nationalarchive Irans, Teheran

Pergamonmuseum
Iran. Moving into Modernity

05.05.2017 to 30.06.2017

Hunting bowl, 7th/8th AD, Gilt silver
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Foto: Ingrid Geske

Pergamonmuseum
The Heritage of the Old Kings. Ctesiphon and the Persian Sources of Islamic Art

15.11.2016 to 23.04.2017