“Locating things — stories of objects and spaces in the Deutsches Historisches Museum”
From May 2026, the German Historical Museum in Berlin’s Pei-Bau will be inviting visitors on a fascinating search for clues through its own collection with the exhibition “Locating Things”. The show presents history not only as a sequence of time, but also as movement and change in spaces. The focus is on objects and collections […]
Nature, power and faith: a look at the exhibition at the Deutsches Historisches Museum
The exhibition “Nature and German History. Faith — Biology — Power”, which can be seen at the German Historical Museum in Berlin from 14 November 2025, takes visitors on a journey through 800 years of German history. From the spiritual concepts of nature of Hildegard von Bingen to the ideological appropriations of the Nazi era […]
Feliciano Lana — The history of the whites in the Humboldt Forum
With the exhibition “Feliciano Lana — The History of the Whites”, the Humboldt Forum in Berlin offers an extraordinary insight into the life and perspective of the indigenous artist Feliciano Lana from Brazil. His watercolours illuminate the eventful history of contact between indigenous people and whites on the upper Rio Negro. From a local and […]
Stories of Tanzania: An exhibition with a critical view at the Humboldt Forum
The exhibition “History(s) of Tanzania” at the Humboldt Forum provides a multifaceted insight into the past and present of a country that has been shaped by trade networks and colonialism like no other. Early on, transregional trade routes connected Tanzania’s present-day societies with the world. The colonial era in particular, first under German and then […]
Between worlds — The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg
In March 2026, the State Museum of Prehistory is hosting a major special exhibition entitled “The Shamaness”. It is dedicated to one of the most fascinating discoveries in European prehistory: the burial of a Middle Stone Age woman from Bad Dürrenberg who lived around 9,000 years ago and is considered a shaman according to the […]
Painting as an event — Bernhard Heisig on his 100th birthday at the Angermuseum Erfurt
With the exhibition “Bernhard Heisig. Painting as an Event”, the Angermuseum Erfurt is honouring the 100th birthday of one of Leipzig’s most influential painters of the post-war period. From 12 October 2025 to 1 March 2026, around 75 paintings, including numerous key works and rarely exhibited paintings from private collections, will be on display. Heisig […]
Gold lacquer and cacti — a new view of Erfurt’s art history
With the exhibition “Gold lacquer and cacti. New beginnings, upheavals and art in Erfurt. Collection presentation from 1700 to the present day”, the Angermuseum Erfurt is opening a newly conceived permanent exhibition. The presentation breaks with classical classification systems and creates an exciting dialogue between paintings, sculptures, graphics and objects of applied art. Works from […]
Freedom in motion: Sport as a mirror of society in the Weimar Republic
The special exhibition “Freedom in Motion — Sport in the Weimar Republic” in the House of the Weimar Republic sheds light on how sport became a mass phenomenon in the 1920s. With the breaking down of old social taboos, more leisure time and democratic structures, sport developed from a privilege of the upper classes to […]
Between ideal and reality: the “Stranger Friends” exhibition at the Utopia and Everyday Life Museum
The exhibition “Foreign Friends. International Friendship between Ideal and Reality” at the Museum Utopia and Everyday Life takes a critical look at the much-cited concept of international friendship in the GDR. Friendship was a frequently used term in official language — an expression of a socialist utopia that was both an ideology and a promise […]
Last shift: memories of Brandenburg’s industrial past
The special exhibition “Last Shift: Brandenburg 1994” at the Utopia and Everyday Life Museum invites visitors to take a look at three abandoned fossil fuel power generation sites in the state of Brandenburg. The 1990s were characterised by far-reaching changes in the East German industrial landscape: closures, demolitions and the loss of architecturally and historically […]
After Hitler — Generations in the mirror of Germany’s coming to terms with the past
The exhibition “After Hitler. The German Confrontation with National Socialism” at the Haus der Geschichte Bonn provides a multi-layered insight into the way in which different generations in Germany have come to terms with the Nazi past. The spectrum ranges from the repression and silence of contemporary witnesses of the Third Reich, to the critical […]
Urban lifestyle on four wheels — skaters & rollerboarders before and after German reunification
The exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte Bonn shows how skateboarding gained a foothold as a sporting trend and rebellious lifestyle in both German states from the 1980s onwards. In the GDR, skaters were known as “rollerboarders” and had to improvise — professional equipment was almost never available. Skating meant freedom, risk and community and […]