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Objects from the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Zentralarchiv / Christine Howald

Zentralarchiv
Symposium “Provenance and Asian Art: Sharing Stories, Building Connections” from 11 to 13 November 2026 on Museumsinsel Berlin

13.07.2026

Helen Ernst, student at the Reimannschule Berlin, fashion illustration, 1928 / Fashion class at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zurich, 1961 / Samples of work, hangers and stamps from the Meisterschule für Mode and the Werkkunstschule Hamburg, 1950s–60s.
Image credits: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek; Photo: Dietmar Katz / Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Archiv ZHdK; Photo: Stefanie Knapp-Länzlinger / Archiv Armgartstraße, HAW; Photo: Julia Bausenhardt

Kunstbibliothek
Call for Papers: “Fashion as a Profession” Symposium on 18 and 19 February 2027

09.07.2026

Graphic design: studio ad, Holger Stüting; the key visual is based on the ballad illustration / minstrel picture ‘The Seven Poor Orphaned Children from Bohemia Who Went to America’, oil on canvas, c. 1900
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum Europäischer Kulturen / Ute Franz-Scarciglia

Gemäldegalerie
“We the People”: Programme Initiative to Mark the 250th Independence Day of the USA on 4 July 2026

19.06.2026

Reference collection at the Rathgen-Forschungslabors
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Rathgen-Forschungslabor / David von Becker

Rathgen-Forschungslabor
International Fellowship Programme for Research Stays at the Rathgen-Forschungslabor 2026

27.05.2026

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften (Long Night of the Sciences) key visual
© Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften e. V.

Forschungscampus Dahlem
Long Night of the Sciences at the Forschungscampus Dahlem on 6 June 2026

22.05.2026

Banquet in the Open Air, glass negative of a work by Frans Hals (attributed), 1610/1624
Photo: Eva Gudermann

Gemäldegalerie
Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie Uses High Resolution to Make Lost Masterpieces Viewable Again

21.05.2026

Logo zum Tag der Provenienzforschung 2024
© Arbeitskreis der Provenienzforschung e. V.

Neue Nationalgalerie
8th International Provenance Research Day on 8 April 2026 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

25.03.2026

Call for papers for the conference “Museums Between Facts and Fiction” (12 and 13 October 2026)
© BKGE

Museum Europäischer Kulturen
Call for Papers: “Museums Between Facts and Fiction” Conference, 12 and 13 October 2026

11.03.2026

The mammoth figurine from Vogelherd Cave is approximately 40,000 years old and features several rows of crosses and dots on its surface.
© University of Tübingen / Hildegard Jensen

Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Museumsinsel Berlin: Research by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte reveals 40,000-year-old writing-like systems

26.02.2026

Viewing and evaluating slides from the Nuba photo collection on a light table
© Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Thomas Imo

Museum für Fotografie
New Website Presents Initial Research Findings on Leni Riefenstahl’s Estate

30.01.2026

Carl Blechen, Storms in the Roman Campagna, detail, 1829
Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie

Rathgen-Forschungslabor
Workshop “Erbe erhalten, Zukunft sichern – Neue Wege der Klimaanpassung“ on 8 and 9 December 2025

03.12.2025

Kerstin Krainer and Sandra Stelzig in the Gemäldegalerie's restoration workshop
Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Fabian Fröhlich

Gemäldegalerie
Eighth European Day of Conservation-Restoration on 19 October 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

02.10.2025

Edison home phonograph and a selection of cylinders
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken; CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Ethnologisches Museum
Sharing Sound Archives: A Conference to Mark the 125th Anniversary of the Phonogramm-Archiv on 7 October 2025

30.09.2025

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Kunstbibliothek
International Symposium “Tenacious Tropes: Colonial Narratives in Visual Advertising” on 21 and 22 November 2025

23.09.2025

European Conference “Democratization of the Arts? Through the Arts? New Strategies for Arts and Culture Education in Europe” on 9 October 2025
Image credit: Genshagen Foundation, European Network of Observatories in the field of arts and cultural education (ENO); Institut for Museumsforschung – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Representation of the European Commission in Germany

Institut für Museumsforschung
European Conference “Democratization of the Arts? Through the Arts? New Strategies for Arts and Culture Education in Europe” on 9 October 2025

15.09.2025



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