Long Night of the Museums at the Museum of Decorative Arts

PROGRAM

Short Tours

Love Things 6:00 PM to Midnight

Binge-watching at the Kunstgewerbemuseum!

Discover the objects of love! Here you'll learn what it takes to win the heart of your loved one – and what remains when love is over, as well as much in between. Each episode tells its own touching love story. Big emotions guaranteed!

• Episode 1 | 6:00 PM | Venus and Cupid. The Gods of Love
  
• Episode 2 | 6:30 PM | Cupid and Psyche. Love Between Heaven and Earth
  
• Episode 3 | 7:00 PM | Hercules. Love and Strength
  
• Episode 4 | 7:30 p.m. | Pygmalion and Galatea. Lovers Through the Ages
  
• Episode 5 | 8:00 p.m. | Minnekästchen. Love in the Middle Ages
  
• Episode 6 | 8:30 p.m. | Kissing Hands, Love Letters, and Marriage. Love in Porcelain
  
• Episode 7 | 9:00 p.m. | The Cardinal Virtues at the Walbaum Cabinet. Charity
  
• Episode 8 | 9:30 p.m. | Stories from Kronos to Aeneas to Mary. Family Love
  
• Episode 9 | 10:00 p.m. | Orpheus and Eurydice. Love That Risks Everything
  
• Episode 10 | 10:30 p.m. | Medusa and Apollo. Love That Is Unrequited
  
• Episode 11 | 11:00 p.m. | Unicorns, Sacrificial Lambs, and Funeral Crowns. Love in the Christian Faith
  
• Episode 12 | 12:00 AM | Embroidered suspenders as a sign of affection. Love in small details
  

Guided tours in English
For English speakers 6:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 pm, 12:30 am
Come with me. I'll show you some love secrets.


Drop-in workshop
Love in small embroideries 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Let your creativity run wild and create loving little works of art! The workshop is all about love – and in a very special way: with delicate embroidery. Whether you're a beginner or already experienced, you are cordially invited to create your own little love messages, symbols, or memories.


Light installations on the facade
The large-scale video installation on the facade of the Museum of Decorative Arts shows surface constructions, grids, color rotations, and architectural elements. In the "Light Fabric," Wolfgang Horn and Barbara Esser intertwine motifs from the Museum of Decorative Arts with their digital oeuvre.


The Café am Kulturforum is open until midnight.

The following institutions of the Berlin State Museums are participating in the Long Night:

Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie, James-Simon-Galerie, Bode-Museum, PETRI Berlin, Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum, Gemäldegalerie, Kunstbibliothek, Museum of Decorative Arts, Baumschule Kulturforum, Neue Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Photography, and the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection.


The complete program for the Long Night of Museums 2025 can be found on the Long Night of Museums website.

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Discount ticket sales for €15 instead of €23 run from August 4, 2025, to August 17, 2025


discount ticket sales from August 4, 2025

Regular ticket sales from August 17, 2025