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Museum of European Cultures (Museum der Europäischen Kulturen)
The Museum of European Cultures opened in June 1999 and includes the merged collections of the Museum of Folklore (Museum für Volkskunde) and the European holdings in the Museum of Ethnology (Museum für Völkerkunde) in Berlin.
The concept of a museum of the history of European cultures takes account of increased collaboration within the European community. In the future, collecting, research projects and exhibitions in the Museum of European Cultures will explore cultural experiences common to all European countries and will start to identify their particular ethnic, regional and national characteristics.
Cultural highlights are the Ethnological Museum, the Museum of East Asian Art and the Museum of Indian Art.
The collection which has the time focus on the era of the 18th century to present deals with the European everyday culture.
Visitors of the exhibition can see how the range of images and motifs increased, and compare similarities and differences between European cultures. Amongst others the exhibition includes painted furniture, magic lanterns, camera obscura, images from churches and people's homes as well as films and digital images.
Today the aim is to show more about the lives of the people whose objects are held in the museum. Future exhibitions will be more collaborative, inviting members of different cultures to be involved, thereby giving greater depth to the exhibits and ensuring that the museum participates in dialogue with different social groups.
There are a lot of interesting temporary exhibitions as well as events. For further information please have view on the website.
Opening times:
Tue - Fr 10am - 6pm
Sat - Sun 11am - 6pm
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Arnimallee 25
14195
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 83901438
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| www.smb.spk-berlin.de |
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Museum of Pre- and Early History
The museum buildings in Charlottenburg are grouped in and around Charlottenburg Palace. The Baroque palace was built during the 17th and 18th century and is now the home of the Gallery of Romantic Art and the Museum of Pre- and Early History in the adjacent Langhans building.
The collection is one of the largest of the world. Dip in the world of movement – from prehistoric cultures of Europe above Ancient Near East to Middle Ages.
Directly opposite the domed palace entrance hall, at the beginning of Schloßstrasse, two impressive buildings are found. They were built in 1851 to designs of the German architect Stüler. These two buildings contain the Egyptian Museum and the Berggruen Collection. A short walk away, in Sophie-Charlotten-Straße, lies the Replica Workshop which completes the museum complex in Charlottenburg. Copies of Ancient Greek sculptures are housed here.
For further information please have a look on the website.
Opening times:
Mo - Fr 9 am - 5 pm, Sat - Sun 10 am - 5 pm, closed on Tue
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Location:Charlottenburg Palace
Spandauer Damm
14059
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 32674840
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| www.smb.spk-berlin.de |
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Bauhaus Archiv - Museum for design
This is an excellent place to find out about German design at the start of the 20th Century. There are extensive exhibitions about the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), one of the most important European schools of architecture, design, and art of the 20th Century. The collection is housed in a building designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus School. Based on the idea that ''form follows function'', the layout, drawings and objects have an appealing simplicity. Work includes a beautiful 1924 Brass, silver, ebony Tea-extract pot, by Marianne Brandt and a substantial collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures by the masters and students of the Bauhaus. This includes works by Albers, Feininger, Itten, Klee, Kandinsky, Muche, Moholy-Nagy and Schlemmer. There are also examples of graphic design, such as posters and a massive collection of influential photographs, many of Walter Gropius himself.
In addition to the permanent Bauhaus exhibition special temporary shows are dedicated to individual artists, or to current themes in the fields of art, architecture and modern design.
Opening times:
Wed - Mo 10 am - 5 pm, closed on Tues (except public holidays)
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Klingelhöferstraße 14
10785
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 25400278
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| www.bauhaus.de |
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The Bridge (Die Brücke)
This museum has an impressive collection of paintings by the Expressionist group of artists (students of architecture) known as "Die Brücke". They had the demand to make art and style of pure expression through colour and form. The collection includes many colourful paintings by Kirchner, and other German artists as well as Emil Nolde who joined later. This small, well-designed museum is set in a beautiful location and offers some quiet respite from the bustle of central Berlin.
Opening times:
Wed - Mo 11 am - 5 pm, closed on Tue
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Bussardsteig 9
14195
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 831202
Fax: +49 (0)30 8315961
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| www.brueke-museum.de |
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Martin Gropius Bau
In 1881 the impressive building was arise after the plans of Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden. Originally it was built up to be a museum of crafts. Today it is used as an exhibition hall with different kinds of temporary expositions with international rank.
The building has a style of Italian renaissance construction with an impressing atrium. Inside mosaics with symbols of all times of German towns decorate the walls. Before the building was bombed in the Second World War it housed the prehistoric museum and the East Asian art collections. Since 1978 to 2000 the building is constantly restored.
For the famous and interesting temporary exhibitions please look on the website!
Opening times:
Wed - Mo 10 am - 8 pm, closed on Tue
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Niederkirchnerstraße 7 / corner Stresemannstr. 110
10963
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 25486112
Fax: +49 (0)30 25486107
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| www.gropiusbau.de |
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Käthe-Kollwitz Museum and Graphic Collection Hans Pels-Leusden e.V
This small but very nice museum contains 200 drawings and graphic works by the remarkable German artist which is one of the most famous woman of the last centuries. After having lived and worked more than 50 years in Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz died in 1945 in Moritzburg near Dresden. The unique collection of her work includes a lot of original posters, woodcuts and some humane sculptures. Twice a year special exhibitions showing works of other artists which were in various ways connected to her. Not far away you can find the Literature house where you can relax and drink something in the nice cafe .
Opening times:
Wed - Mo 11 am - 6 pm, closed on Tue
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Fasanenstraße 24
10719
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 8825210
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| www.kaethe-kollwitz.de |
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Museum for the Present in the Hamburger Bahnhof - Berlin (Tiergarten)
After a long reconstruction this former railway station was opened in 1996. Today the exhibition area of about 10.000m² offers a lot of exhibition of modern art. The permanent collection contain works from ‘National Museums in Berlin’ (staatliche Museen zu Berlin) as well as from private collectors like Erich Marks with his quality collection. The collection from ‘National Museums’ include internationally renowned artists such as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Roy Lichtenstein and more.
The contemporary artists and the theme shows make the exhibitions to highlight and so it gets a very lively character.
The themes of the exhibitions deal with modern subjects with the aspects of visual arts, media, the culture of everyday life, discussions as well as music and performances and a lot of more aspects.
Between the opening and now the character of the exhibitions changed in their structure so their getting more fresh and impressive.
For the temporary exhibitions please have a look on the website!
Opening times:
Tue - Fr 10 am - 6 pm, Thur 10 am - 10 pm (2pm - 6 pm entree free),
Sa - Sun 11 am - 6 pm
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Location:Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstraße 50-51
10557
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 39783411
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Pergamon Museum (Collection of Antiques)
The Collection of Classical Antiquities contains Greek and Roman works including not only architectural remains, sculptures and vases, inscriptions and mosaics but also bronzes and jewellery. It is on display in two locations: the Pergamon Museum and the main floor of "Altes Museum".
With an annual figure of 850,000 visitors the Pergamon Museum is among one of the most popular museum destinations for visitors. Its main attraction is the Pergamon Altar (2nd century BC). The frieze depicting the battle between the Gods and Giants is regarded as a masterpiece of Hellenistic art. The next room contains the market Gate of Miletus, an outstanding example of Roman architecture. Inside the building there is also the Museum of Ancient Near Eastern Art.
Examples of Greek architecture can be found in the hall of Hellenistic architecture adjoining the great hall to the north. The northern wing of the Pergamon Museum contains classical sculptures from the Archaic age to the Hellenistic period, ancient copies of Greek originals as well as Roman art. This is a very traditional museum, and perhaps could be made more interesting if considered in the light of Germany''s history during the past two hundred years. This social and historical context of collecting adds another dimension to these relics from a previous era. On the first floor there is the Museum for Islamic Arts which includes an exquisitely carved façade of an eighth century Caliph''s Palace from Mschatta in present-day Jordan.
Greek and Roman art and sculptures can be found in the Altes Museum. The main highlight, the art of the Etruscans, will go on show when major restoration work on the building has been completed. Until then an exhibition of Greek works of art is open to the public on the newly designed main floor of the building. This thematically arranged exhibition includes stone sculptures, clay and bronze figures, friezes, vases, gold jewellery and silverware. Three information displays provide details on additional topics such as Greek myths, ancient city culture and the archaeological sites investigated by the Berlin museums.
The post-war division of Germany led to a division of the Graeco-Roman collection, and now the collections are being united. In the eastern part of the city the Pergamon Museum was re-opened in 1959. In the west of the city smaller art treasures which had been stored for safekeeping in West Germany were exhibited in the western Stüler building opposite Charlottenburg Palace from 1960 to 1995. Vases, bronze figures and other small objects are now on exhibition in the Altes Museum to mark the reunification of the long-divided collection.
Plaster models of antique art are on display in the Replica Collection in Berlin-Charlottenburg near the Egyptian Museum. In the nearby Replica Workshop replicas are available for sale.
Opening times:
Tue - Sun 10 am - 6 pm, Thur until 10 pm
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Am Kupfergraben 5
10117
Berlin
Tel: +49(0)30 20905577
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Museum of Ethnology, Dahlem
This Museum is housed in an exciting modern building which contains a lot of permanent exhibitions with arts from Latin America, Africa and Japan as well as the history of the American Indians and more interesting themes. Nearly 500,000 objects from throughout the world and a huge number of sound recordings and documentary photographs and films are located in this very fascinating Museum.
It contains collections about preserves and researches into cultural goods from pre-industrial societies with the main focus of outside Europe.
Every Sunday is a guided tour through the Junior Museum where children can discover and explore other destinations for example Australia’s aborigines. Furthermore there is an extra museum for blind people.
Opening times:
closed on Mo, Tue - Fr 10 am - 6 pm, Sat - Sun 11 am - 6 pm
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Location:Dahlem Museum Complex
Lansstraße 8
14195
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 8301438
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Jewish Museum
Designed by Daniel Libeskind, this quite extraordinary building is an important monument to the past and current lives of the many Jewish people in Germany. The museum attempts to highlight the similarities and the differences between Jewish and German lifestyles, exploring traditions and progression from the Middle Ages to the present and offers insights into German-Jewish life in the diverse displays of individual and private documents and objects. In addition to the permanent exhibitions the museum contains historic special exhibitions, contemporary art and a lot of multi-media based stories. So there are very personal things included.
The museum owner felt it was especially important to document the lives of ordinary people so curators have recently focussed on collecting mementos from Jewish families.
The zig-zagging layout and the garden can be confusing for some people however Libeskind felt that this was appropriate to the history of the German Jews.
You can do different actions and feel empathy with some situations of the Jewish-life!
Opening times:
Mo 10 am - 10 pm, Tue - Sun 10 am - 8 pm
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Lindenstraße 9-14
10969
Berlin
Tel: +49 (0)30 25993300
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