© Veröffentlicht in aktuell 8/1971, S. 3, Foto: Wolfgang Bachmann.
Charter flight into the past
50 years of the Berlin Senate's visiting program for victims of Nazi persecution. moreabout: Charter flight into the past
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West!
Since 2012, the museum has been presenting its art historical research as well as its urban and everyday history collection in the Villa Oppenheim near Charlottenburg Palace. moreabout: West!
© Erbengemeinschaft Ruge
Photography Matters
Photography can amaze us, make us doubt, or make us believe. It’s not just the image that plays a role in our response, but also photography’s materiality. moreabout: Photography Matters
© dpa
Culinarium: From the field to the plate
How many people eat with knife and fork worldwide, how many use fingers and hands? When and where was the can invented – or margarine? How is the typical life of a pig in an industrialized farm vs. a pig in an organic farm? And in what month is actually... moreabout: Culinarium: From the field to the plate
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Locating things. Stories of Movement and Transformation from the DHM collection (Working title)
For May 2026, the Deutsches Historisches Museum is planning an exhibition about the collection history of the house, to be shown on the ground floor of the Pei Building. We are used to thinking about history as perception in time and linear sequence.... moreabout: Locating things. Stories of Movement and Transformation from the DHM collection (Working title)
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Nice views!
The ascent to the battlement of the Flatow Tower in Park Babelsberg leads through museum-like castle rooms and through the permanent exhibition "Beautiful Views".It invites you to linger and provides interesting information about the construction history... moreabout: Nice views!
© Stephan Klenner-Otto
Inventing E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–2026)
Few writers have been as completely transformed by their reception as E.T.A. Hoffmann (*1776, †1822). For more than two hundred years, his works have been translated into new languages and cultures, his texts illustrated and adapted into a diversity of... moreabout: Inventing E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776–2026)
© Fotonachweis: Timo Ohler
Museum in Motion
The presentation of the collection as part of the reopening of the Rieckhallen shows ten large-format works from the last 25 years, including several new acquisitions that are being presented to the public for the first time. These works raise questions... moreabout: Museum in Motion
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Harry Schnitger
Videopanorama - History of the place
Embark on a visual journey through time over eight centuries. A collage of images and films shows the buildings that once stood here, their uses and important events that took place here. It makes clear that for centuries the site was a representative... moreabout: Videopanorama - History of the place
© (c) SIMPK/Anne-Katrin Breitenborn
The Accordion
The accordion is a well-known instrument in many genres: folk and popular music, jazz and dance music, as well as contemporary music. Yann Tiersen's soundtrack for the film Amélie made its sound familiar to millions of listeners. The notes are produced... moreabout: The Accordion
© Maximilian Prüfer
Maximilian Prüfer: Ein Bild findet Gnade (An Image is granted Mercy)
The Nazi book burnings are well known. Less widely known is that on March 20, 1939, paintings from German museums were also burned at the main fire station on Lindenstraße in Berlin. The exact circumstances remain not fully clarified to this day. moreabout: Maximilian Prüfer: Ein Bild findet Gnade (An Image is granted Mercy)
© SDTB / Foto: C. Kirchner
The network
How do information and communication networks work? How do they change our everyday lives? And: Why do we actually network? With many exhibits, the exhibition shows how we realize our desire for networking. These include, for example, the desk telephones... moreabout: The network
© Cornelia Parker, Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London
Cornelia Parker: Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
Parker is creating a site-specific, immersive installation for the monumental boiler house—a powerful fictional event with an immediate physical presence. moreabout: Cornelia Parker: Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
© Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Bauhaus Infinity Archive
The Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung is home to the world’s largest Bauhaus collection with around one million objects. Though only few of these objects have been exhibited so far, numerous digital images of them exist. How can we bring these unknown... moreabout: Bauhaus Infinity Archive
© Grafik: Bernd Rose © Kulturamt Spandau
Whatever shape your heart is in
The exhibition, whose title is based on a song from the 2020 album "Hermitage" by Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith, is intended to subtly but clearly demonstrate that it is worth pursuing one's own perspective in every life situation, every social... moreabout: Whatever shape your heart is in
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