Kurzführungen in der Ausstellung »Berliner Kontraste« mit Kuratorin oder Fotograf

Während die Erwachsenen unseren Büchertisch durchstöbern, können die Kinder gemeinsam Bücher lesen und sich vorlesen lassen.

Various DJs provide cool sounds for the Long Night of Museums in the Museum Ephraim Palais – alternating with the band ASK GONZALO.

In Berlin trifft Herz auf Berliner Schnauze, Jetset auf Lokalpatriotismus und Geschichte auf Zukunft. Auf diese Stadt der Kontraste gibt es viele Perspektiven. Erleben Sie die Ausstellung »Berliner Kontraste« begleitet von einer Livespeakerin.

Jazz music – but wait, is that actually jazz? Or maybe indie? Or a bit of both? Or maybe it’s just a heavily improvised, undogmatic approach combining different musical styles such as jazz, dub, Krautrock and funk. Come along and discover a new genre with ASK GONZALO!

The museum library is giving away books it doesn’t need, ranging from Berlin literature to books on Asia to catalogues from art and cultural exhibitions. The books are free, though we ask for donations.

In Zusammenarbeit mit einer ukrainischen Kuratorin beauftragte das Stadtmuseum Berlin 2022 zehn ukrainische Künstler*innen damit, Kunstwerke zum Thema Heimat (engl. Motherland) zu erstellen. Die Werkschau präsentiert nun diese künstlerischen Arbeiten. Erfahren Sie bei einer Kurzführung noch mehr über unsere aktuelle Ausstellung.

They used to live in Ukraine. Now, uprooted from their homes, many find their lives in a state of flux, working here and living there. In an exhibition by Stadtmuseum Berlin created in collaboration with Ukrainian curator Valeria Schiller, ten Ukrainian artists respond to the question: "What does home mean?" The exhibition "Motherland" can be seen on the first floor of Museum Ephraim-Palais. The paintings, photographs and videos on exhibit were created in late 2022 against a backdrop of war and flight. They focus on the concept of 'home' from two different angles: as experienced reality, feelings of duty, and associations with a country on the one hand, and as subconscious wishes, fears, and longings on the other. By assembling expressions of these complicated and multifaceted relationships to 'home' and to 'homeland', the exhibition places this subjective lived experience within a global context.

In Berlin, heart meets hardness, jet set meets local patriotism and history meets the future. There are many perspectives on this city of contrasts. We are showing two of them in a special exhibition. The photographers Frank Silberbach and Nikolas von Safft created their Berlin images in very different ways. While one immersed himself in the bustle of the streets and squares, the other explored the outskirts of the city. Both used analogue black-and-white photography to compose their visual worlds. The dialogue between the two perspectives encourages one to trace the essence, history and challenges of the city, but also one’s own attitude to life in Berlin.