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

Shadi Ghadirian, Qajar #3, detail, 1998
© Shadi Ghadirian, courtesy of the Silk Road Gallery

Pergamonmuseum
Capturing Iran’s Past
Fotokunst – PhotoArt – هنر عکاسی

07.11.2019 to 26.01.2020

Friedrich Delitzsch (1850‒1922)
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Fotoarchiv Vorderasiatisches Museum

Pergamonmuseum
The Babel/Bible Conflict
Politics, Theology and Science around 1900

05.11.2019 to 13.03.2020

Enzyklopädie des Qazwini: Personifikation des Planeten Mond, I. 9493 fol. 29
© Museum für Islamische Kunst, Foto: Martina Müller-Wiener

Pergamonmuseum
Qazwini
Global Images – Images of the World 750 Years Ago

16.08.2019 to 27.10.2019

Mughal school, Emperor Akbar riding his favourite elephant, detail, 1609–1610, opaque watercolour and gold on paper
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Christian Krug

Pergamonmuseum
Elephant Stories
Miniature Paintings from Mughal India

14.06.2019 to 11.08.2019

The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus, overlooking the sea of houses of the historic Old City, the entirety of which is recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
© Issam Hajjar, 2007

Pergamonmuseum
Cultural Landscape Syria
Preservation and Archiving in Times of War

28.02.2019 to 26.05.2019

Zsanett Szirmay, Soundweaving 1.0, Vienna 2014
© Sándor Fövényi

Pergamonmuseum
Soundweaving 7.0 – Pergamon Edition
The Sound of the Carpets

27.10.2018 to 07.01.2019

Lime vessel as a human figure, Colombia, 500-700 AD
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, digital reproduction: Philipp Jester | Jens Blank

Museumsinsel Berlin
Humboldt Forum Highlights

23.10.2018 to 29.09.2019

Sechseckige Fliesen mit Blüten und Ranken
aus dem Fort Kalan Kot bei Thatta/Pakistan, 17. Jh.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Islamische Kunst / Johannes Kramer

Pergamonmuseum
The Colours of Sindh. Architectural Decor and Historic Photographs from Southern Sindh

19.10.2018 to 10.02.2019