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Time travel in Berlin

Numerous museums in Berlin take you on a journey through time from the Middle Ages to the present day. A medieval village has been brought back to life at the Düppel Open-Air Museum. The Berlin Wall Memorial provides information about the division of Germany and the peaceful revolution. The GDR Museum takes you back to former East Germany with original objects and a replica of a typical prefabricated apartment.

Delve deep into Berlin's history at PETRI Berlin – an open archaeology laboratory that offers insights into the exciting world of archaeological research.

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16/03/2026 – 30/04/2026

Education through work. “Asocials” as enemies of the state in the GDR

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16/03/2026 – 30/04/2026

“Education through work. ‘Asocials’ as enemies of the state in the GDR” is dedicated to a largely forgotten chapter of GDR history: the systematic exclusion, disciplining and criminalization of people who were considered “asocial”.

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Various venues Ruschestraße 103
10365 Berlin

09:00 am

https://www.bundesarchiv.de/ausstellungen/ausstellung/erziehung-durch-arbeit-asoziale-als-staatsfeinde-in-der-ddr-berlin-16-03-2026-bis-30-04-2026-1/
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18/03/2026

Opening: Missing St. Moritz

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18/03/2026

St. Moritz Church in Spandau was possibly the oldest church in what is now Berlin. A wooden church with a churchyard existed there as early as 1180, which was replaced by a stone building in the 13th century and later remodeled.

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Gotisches Haus Gotisches Haus

17:00 pm

https://www.gotischeshaus.de/veranstaltungen/
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The Century of Displacement

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Why do people have to flee or are expelled? What do they experience? The Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation looks at politically, ethnically and religiously motivated forced migrations in the 20th century in Europe and beyond.

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Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung Stresemannstraße 90
10963 Berlin

https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/besuchen/staendige-ausstellung/?source=bde

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19/03/2026 + 3 additional dates

Parental leave cultur

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19/03/2026 + 3 additional dates

Taking your baby to the museum: This offer makes it child's play for parents to explore the exhibition on Berlin's city history.

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Museum Ephraim-Palais Museum Ephraim-Palais

10:00 am – 13:00 pm

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/elternzeit-kultur
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26/03/2026

Hélène Fauriat | From the Resistance to forced labor in Schönefeld

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26/03/2026

Pupils from the Amy-Johnson-Gymnasium in Schönefeld created the exhibition in cooperation with the Documentation Center for Nazi Forced Labor.

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Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit Berlin-Schöneweide

17:00 pm

https://www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de/veranstaltungen
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To 19/07/2026

Built community Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and life 12,000 years ago

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12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in present-day Türkiye built monumental structures that archaeologists are still studying today. In cooperation with Türkiye, spectacular finds from Göbeklitepe and the surrounding region are coming to Berlin’s Museum Island.

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James Simon Galerie Bodestraße 1-3
10178 Berlin

https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/gebaute-gemeinschaft/?source=bde

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05/04/2026

Action day at the Ephraim-Palais Museum

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05/04/2026

Discover BerlinZEIT! On the first and second floors of the Ephraim-Palais Museum, the exhibition offers an entertaining journey of discovery through the centuries and, at the same time, a comprehensive overview of the sometimes revolutionary events in this…

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Museum Ephraim-Palais Museum Ephraim-Palais

08:00 am – 16:00 pm

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/aktionstag-im-museum-ephraim-palais
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05/04/2026

Action day at the Knoblauchhaus Museum

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05/04/2026

Head to "Sunday in the Nikolaiviertel"! A varied program awaits you on the day of the event at the regular admission price. Admission is free for many.

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Museum Knoblauchhaus Museum Knoblauchhaus

08:00 am – 16:00 pm

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/aktionstag-im-museum-knoblauchhaus
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05/04/2026

Day of Action at the Museum Nikolaikirche

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05/04/2026

Discover eight hundred years of history and culture! Berlin's oldest surviving church building has shaped the Nikolaiviertel and the city center since the Middle Ages: once a place of worship, now a museum of church, architectural, and urban history.

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Museum Nikolaikirche Museum Nikolaikirche

08:00 am – 16:00 pm

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/aktionstag-im-museum-nikolaikirche
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17/05/2026

Finissage | Spandau Prison. 1877 – 1987

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17/05/2026

Admission to the exhibition is free for the closing event on International Museum Day. The closing event program will be available here a few weeks before the event.

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Zitadelle Berlin Zitadelle Berlin

08:00 am – 15:00 pm

https://www.zitadelle-berlin.de/ev_event/finissage-spandau-prison-1877-1987/
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‘Faith, power and the military’ exhibition

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Potsdam's newly opened attraction, the rebuilt tower of the Garrison Church, is hosting an exhibition on the history of the site. The exhibition ‘Faith, Power and the Military’ provides a critical examination of the history of the Garrison Church in the…

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https://garnisonkirche-potsdam.de/
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"… bisschen anders, aber genauso.“

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Until 1989, around 30,000 Cubans came to the GDR to work, study or receive training. In the temporary exhibition, ten women, men and their children talk about everyday life in the socialist GDR.

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Museum in der KulturBrauerei Knaackstraße 97
10435 Berlin

https://www.hdg.de/museum-in-der-kulturbrauerei/ausstellungen/bisschen-anders-aber-genauso-kubanisch-deutsche-geschichte-in-ddr-und-brd
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To 10/05/2026

"Struggles for reappraisal, recognition and remembrance from the perspective of Roma and Sinti after 1945" (AT)

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To 10/05/2026

German society and politics ignored the Samudaripen, the Nazi genocide of Roma and Sinti in Europe, for a long time and sometimes even actively suppressed a reappraisal of the discrimination, persecution and murder.

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FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum Adalbertstraße 95A
10999 Berlin

10:00 am

https://www.fhxb-museum.de/news-detail/ausstellungsankuendigung-widerstand-und-wuerde-verbundene-kaempfe-von-romnja-und-sintizze-nach-1945
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“Gegenentwürfe” (Alternative concepts)

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The Prenzlauer Berg before, during, and after the fall of the wall. Distributed on an area of about 100m2 the continuities and discontinuities in East Germany compared to before and after the reunification are evident in concrete examples in the seven…

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Museum Pankow Prenzlauer Allee Prenzlauer Allee 227/228
10405 Berlin

10:00 am

https://www.berlin.de/museum-pankow/aktuelles/ausstellungen/artikel.338956.php
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“Together we are unbearable” The independent women’s movement in the GDR

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Since the beginning of the 1980s, women in the GDR have come together in informal circles to express themselves politically. They openly opposed the GDR's rearmament policy, while others complained about the discrimination experienced by lesbians. From the…

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https://www.havemann-gesellschaft.de/veranstaltungen/240111-gemeinsam-sind-wir-unertraeglich/
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[🇫🇷🤝🇩🇪] Deutsch-Französische Woche 2025 | Das Leben im ehemaligen französischen Sektor | Ausstellung, Abendessen, Podiumdiskussion, Spaziergänge,...

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An exhibition in the heart of the former French sector! Once again this year, the Centre Français de Berlin invites you to celebrate Franco-German friendship! On the occasion of Franco-German Day 2025 and in cooperation with the Leibniz Gymnasium, we are…

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1961 bis 1989. The Berlin Wall

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Why was the Wall built? Why did the Wall stay up so long? Why did it fall in 1989?

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Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer Bernauer Straße 111
13355 Berlin

http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/de/dokumentationszentrum-213.html
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20 YEARS OF MEET THE MENDELSSOHNS IN JÄGERSTRASSE!

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Using German-Jewish stories to combat ignorance and anti-Semitism, for dialogue and civic responsibility: Congratulatory evening on the occasion of the opening of the permanent exhibition in the Remise on February 22, 2006 – with music, photos, memories…

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Mendelssohn-Remise Jägerstraße 51
10117 Berlin

http://www.mendelssohn-remise.de/gesellschaft/veranstaltungen
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200 years of German immigration in Brazil

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A 3-day cultural programme that sheds light on 200 years of German-Brazilian migration history - from the first German immigrants in 1824 to today's Brazilian community in Germany. With a language-sound installation, lectures and live performances.

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Forum Brasil Möckernstraße 72
10965 Berlin

https://forum-brasil.de/

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80 Years Ago – Displacement and Expulsion of the Germans

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On this anniversary we will focus on 14 million Germans who were displaced or expelled from the former Eastern territories or from where they had lived as ethnic German minorities in Eastern Europe. They had to leave their homeland under extraordinary…

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- Guided tours of the museum
https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/80-jahre-kriegsende-flucht-und-vertreibung-anhand-persoenlicher-schicksale

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80 Years Ago – Displacement and Expulsion of the Germans

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At the end of the Second World War, millions of civilians had to flee from East and West Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, and Silesia. After the war, those still left in those territories were subsequently expelled, as were ethnic German minorities from…

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- Guided tours of the museum
https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/veranstaltung/vor-80-jahren-flucht-und-vertreibung-der-deutschen