The Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité has been showing an extensive permanent exhibition since 2007. The presentation takes its visitors - in the spirit of Rudolf Virchow - on a "journey under the skin". The tour begins in the early 18th century with a visit to the Berlin Anatomical Theatre. Via the Anatomical […]
Robot humans, green skyscrapers, collaborative economies: There are endless possibilities for thinking about the future. The exhibition in the Futurium presents and discusses different concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies do we use and how do we use them? How do we meet our […]
The Endless Exhibition now includes 23 artworks from the Hamburger Bahnhof collection displayed indoors and outdoors. The microsite and booklet guide visitors through the museum, garden, and surrounding areas, connecting the collection with history, architecture, and the neighborhood. The tour includes Dan Flavin’s light installation (1996), historic sites such as the former border crossing at […]
As microcosm of Berlin, the Hamburger Bahnhof has many stories to tell. Forum Hamburger Bahnhof presents objects and archival materials from 1848 to the present. Chapter by chapter it reappraises and retells the station’s history. An era-defining railway station in the mid-19th century, the building has continually adapted to changing historical circumstances. Having served as […]
Pollinator Pathmaker is a living artwork for pollinating insects by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg located on the forecourt of the museum. She invites us to look at the world from the viewpoint of pollinators and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to their conservation.
Please note: From 26 January through 26 March 2026 the exhibition will remain closed due to installation work in the Kleihueshalle. The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle. Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle explores the artist’s complex […]
Discover new exhibits, exciting talks, workshops and events for the family. All around raw materials. At Futurium. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them; we power our cars and machines with their energy; we bake our bread with them and use them in our smartphones […]
Our bird collection has to be partially relocated due to renovation. We have taken this as an opportunity for a one-off special exhibition focusing on the historical bird specimens and input from our visitors. The collection room with the historical bird specimens is currently being renovated as part of the Future Plan. For the approximately 11,500 historical mounted […]
Over the next few years, we will be working on our Future Plan and turning our building upside down: the museum will be renovated, the scientific collection objects will be catalogued and digitized and new exhibitions will be created with the participation of the public. Large transport boxes are stacked in four places in the museum space […]
What do you associate with the word “ocean”? The boundlessness of the water? Bizarre deep-sea creatures? The ideal wave for surfing? Oceans have shaped our planet for billions of years and are the basis of all life. They determine our climate, provide us with oxygen and food. And they connect us – our histories, cultures […]
A Journey Through Time into the World of Dinosaurs – and of T. rex Tristan Otto The special exhibition presents original fossils, current research, and new perspectives on dinosaurs. The “giant lizards” in the gallery demonstrate how our understanding continues to change through scientific discoveries.
Starting point of Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is the monumental work TRUTH, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. As visitors move through the oversized letters within the exhibition space, the artwork questions the mechanisms that preserve or obscure truth. The sculptural installation reveals how collective progress depends on protecting […]
Lina Lapelytė’s performance We Make Years Out of Hours transforms the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof into a space for collective action and singing as part of the second CHANEL Commission. The exhibition transcends boundaries between sculpture and performance, the individual and the collective: 400,000 wooden cubes spread across the floor, stack into piles, connect into […]
There is nothing we associate more with being sick than lying in bed. This special exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our connection to the world change when the bed becomes the center of our lives. Historical objects and archival materials, artworks, activist positions, and stories of lived experience enter […]
Berlin is a place of ongoing movement and negotiation, where artistic, political, and migratory trajectories intersect. For its 30th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof presents its new iteration of the collection in the west wing, focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, […]
[ materialistin ] presents sculptures and site-specific installations at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, which engage with social and cultural-political questions. The group exhibition of eight sculptors working in Leipzig – Laura Eckert, Enne Haehnle, Elisabeth Howey, Lucy König, Agnes Lammert, Wibke Rahn, Theresa Rothe, and Sophie Uchman – highlights new forms of collective […]
„Hi there, how can I simplify your life today?“ We turn to AI with prompts, tasks and requests for analyses, hoping for recommendations, ideas and answers in return. But if we hand over more and more competences to our new assistants, will this really simplify our everyday lives in the long term? New kinds of roommates […]
The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the composer and artist in Europe. Ryuichi Sakamoto is regarded as a pioneer of electronic and experimental music who continually redefined the boundaries between sound, film, performance and visual art. Since the 2000s Sakamoto developed three-dimensional sound environments, often in collaboration with international artists such as Shiro Takatani […]
Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno return to Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart: The Rieckhallen were once part of a larger complex of industrial warehouses extending towards Invalidenstraße. Between 2002 and 2013, the five artists had studios here, directly next to Hamburger Bahnhof. Ideas, experiments and works developed in […]
How can we make invisible climate data tangible? At this Open Lab evening, we’ll explore the relationship between people, machines, and the environment. After gaining an insight into electrical engineering and human-computer interaction, you’ll work in small groups to build your own prototypes that translate climate data—such as temperature or air pressure—into light, movement, or […]
In conversation with the curator and the conservators, participants will have a rare opportunity to see Niele Toroni’s large-scale mural on the museum’s footbridge up close and learn how it is being restored. Book a tour The conservation project is funded by the Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz and the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin. The outreach program is organized […]
The Tandem Tour is designed for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing individuals who use German Sign Language (DGS) and invites visitors to discover the museum and its art anew, together. At the heart of each tour is a shared conversation about selected artworks and the building itself. The focus in this tour lies on individual works […]
The Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité has been showing an extensive permanent exhibition since 2007. The presentation takes its visitors - in the spirit of Rudolf Virchow - on a "journey under the skin". The tour begins in the early 18th century with a visit to the Berlin Anatomical Theatre. Via the Anatomical […]
Robot humans, green skyscrapers, collaborative economies: There are endless possibilities for thinking about the future. The exhibition in the Futurium presents and discusses different concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies do we use and how do we use them? How do we meet our […]
The Endless Exhibition now includes 23 artworks from the Hamburger Bahnhof collection displayed indoors and outdoors. The microsite and booklet guide visitors through the museum, garden, and surrounding areas, connecting the collection with history, architecture, and the neighborhood. The tour includes Dan Flavin’s light installation (1996), historic sites such as the former border crossing at […]
As microcosm of Berlin, the Hamburger Bahnhof has many stories to tell. Forum Hamburger Bahnhof presents objects and archival materials from 1848 to the present. Chapter by chapter it reappraises and retells the station’s history. An era-defining railway station in the mid-19th century, the building has continually adapted to changing historical circumstances. Having served as […]
Pollinator Pathmaker is a living artwork for pollinating insects by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg located on the forecourt of the museum. She invites us to look at the world from the viewpoint of pollinators and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to their conservation.
Please note: From 26 January through 26 March 2026 the exhibition will remain closed due to installation work in the Kleihueshalle. The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle. Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle explores the artist’s complex […]
Discover new exhibits, exciting talks, workshops and events for the family. All around raw materials. At Futurium. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them; we power our cars and machines with their energy; we bake our bread with them and use them in our smartphones […]
Our bird collection has to be partially relocated due to renovation. We have taken this as an opportunity for a one-off special exhibition focusing on the historical bird specimens and input from our visitors. The collection room with the historical bird specimens is currently being renovated as part of the Future Plan. For the approximately 11,500 historical mounted […]
Over the next few years, we will be working on our Future Plan and turning our building upside down: the museum will be renovated, the scientific collection objects will be catalogued and digitized and new exhibitions will be created with the participation of the public. Large transport boxes are stacked in four places in the museum space […]
What do you associate with the word “ocean”? The boundlessness of the water? Bizarre deep-sea creatures? The ideal wave for surfing? Oceans have shaped our planet for billions of years and are the basis of all life. They determine our climate, provide us with oxygen and food. And they connect us – our histories, cultures […]
A Journey Through Time into the World of Dinosaurs – and of T. rex Tristan Otto The special exhibition presents original fossils, current research, and new perspectives on dinosaurs. The “giant lizards” in the gallery demonstrate how our understanding continues to change through scientific discoveries.
Starting point of Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is the monumental work TRUTH, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. As visitors move through the oversized letters within the exhibition space, the artwork questions the mechanisms that preserve or obscure truth. The sculptural installation reveals how collective progress depends on protecting […]
Lina Lapelytė’s performance We Make Years Out of Hours transforms the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof into a space for collective action and singing as part of the second CHANEL Commission. The exhibition transcends boundaries between sculpture and performance, the individual and the collective: 400,000 wooden cubes spread across the floor, stack into piles, connect into […]
There is nothing we associate more with being sick than lying in bed. This special exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our connection to the world change when the bed becomes the center of our lives. Historical objects and archival materials, artworks, activist positions, and stories of lived experience enter […]
Berlin is a place of ongoing movement and negotiation, where artistic, political, and migratory trajectories intersect. For its 30th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof presents its new iteration of the collection in the west wing, focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, […]
[ materialistin ] presents sculptures and site-specific installations at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, which engage with social and cultural-political questions. The group exhibition of eight sculptors working in Leipzig – Laura Eckert, Enne Haehnle, Elisabeth Howey, Lucy König, Agnes Lammert, Wibke Rahn, Theresa Rothe, and Sophie Uchman – highlights new forms of collective […]
„Hi there, how can I simplify your life today?“ We turn to AI with prompts, tasks and requests for analyses, hoping for recommendations, ideas and answers in return. But if we hand over more and more competences to our new assistants, will this really simplify our everyday lives in the long term? New kinds of roommates […]
The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the composer and artist in Europe. Ryuichi Sakamoto is regarded as a pioneer of electronic and experimental music who continually redefined the boundaries between sound, film, performance and visual art. Since the 2000s Sakamoto developed three-dimensional sound environments, often in collaboration with international artists such as Shiro Takatani […]
Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno return to Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart: The Rieckhallen were once part of a larger complex of industrial warehouses extending towards Invalidenstraße. Between 2002 and 2013, the five artists had studios here, directly next to Hamburger Bahnhof. Ideas, experiments and works developed in […]
Less light. Less noise. Less hustle and bustle. For two hours, things will be noticeably quieter at Futurium—for anyone who wants a low-stimulus environment to help them focus on what really matters. We invite you to the “Quiet Hour”—a particularly peaceful time to visit the exhibition and the Lab. During this time, we dim bright […]
As part of the ‘Science in the Dinosaur Hall’ series of events, the Faculty of Life Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin invite you to be transported into the fascinating world of science within the setting of the Dinosaur Hall. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to visit the museum’s exhibitions. […]
The Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité has been showing an extensive permanent exhibition since 2007. The presentation takes its visitors - in the spirit of Rudolf Virchow - on a "journey under the skin". The tour begins in the early 18th century with a visit to the Berlin Anatomical Theatre. Via the Anatomical […]
Robot humans, green skyscrapers, collaborative economies: There are endless possibilities for thinking about the future. The exhibition in the Futurium presents and discusses different concepts for the future: How do we want to work and live in the future? What technologies do we use and how do we use them? How do we meet our […]
The Endless Exhibition now includes 23 artworks from the Hamburger Bahnhof collection displayed indoors and outdoors. The microsite and booklet guide visitors through the museum, garden, and surrounding areas, connecting the collection with history, architecture, and the neighborhood. The tour includes Dan Flavin’s light installation (1996), historic sites such as the former border crossing at […]
As microcosm of Berlin, the Hamburger Bahnhof has many stories to tell. Forum Hamburger Bahnhof presents objects and archival materials from 1848 to the present. Chapter by chapter it reappraises and retells the station’s history. An era-defining railway station in the mid-19th century, the building has continually adapted to changing historical circumstances. Having served as […]
Pollinator Pathmaker is a living artwork for pollinating insects by the artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg located on the forecourt of the museum. She invites us to look at the world from the viewpoint of pollinators and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to their conservation.
Please note: From 26 January through 26 March 2026 the exhibition will remain closed due to installation work in the Kleihueshalle. The Hamburger Bahnhof is presenting its extensive holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys (1921–86) in the Kleihueshalle. Comprising 15 key works by Joseph Beuys, the new presentation in the Kleihueshalle explores the artist’s complex […]
Discover new exhibits, exciting talks, workshops and events for the family. All around raw materials. At Futurium. Raw materials determine our lives. Our whole existence rests upon them: we build our houses with them; we power our cars and machines with their energy; we bake our bread with them and use them in our smartphones […]
Our bird collection has to be partially relocated due to renovation. We have taken this as an opportunity for a one-off special exhibition focusing on the historical bird specimens and input from our visitors. The collection room with the historical bird specimens is currently being renovated as part of the Future Plan. For the approximately 11,500 historical mounted […]
Over the next few years, we will be working on our Future Plan and turning our building upside down: the museum will be renovated, the scientific collection objects will be catalogued and digitized and new exhibitions will be created with the participation of the public. Large transport boxes are stacked in four places in the museum space […]
What do you associate with the word “ocean”? The boundlessness of the water? Bizarre deep-sea creatures? The ideal wave for surfing? Oceans have shaped our planet for billions of years and are the basis of all life. They determine our climate, provide us with oxygen and food. And they connect us – our histories, cultures […]
A Journey Through Time into the World of Dinosaurs – and of T. rex Tristan Otto The special exhibition presents original fossils, current research, and new perspectives on dinosaurs. The “giant lizards” in the gallery demonstrate how our understanding continues to change through scientific discoveries.
Starting point of Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is the monumental work TRUTH, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. As visitors move through the oversized letters within the exhibition space, the artwork questions the mechanisms that preserve or obscure truth. The sculptural installation reveals how collective progress depends on protecting […]
Lina Lapelytė’s performance We Make Years Out of Hours transforms the Historic Hall of Hamburger Bahnhof into a space for collective action and singing as part of the second CHANEL Commission. The exhibition transcends boundaries between sculpture and performance, the individual and the collective: 400,000 wooden cubes spread across the floor, stack into piles, connect into […]
There is nothing we associate more with being sick than lying in bed. This special exhibition Horizontal: Politics and Poetics from the Sickbed explores how perception and our connection to the world change when the bed becomes the center of our lives. Historical objects and archival materials, artworks, activist positions, and stories of lived experience enter […]
Berlin is a place of ongoing movement and negotiation, where artistic, political, and migratory trajectories intersect. For its 30th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof presents its new iteration of the collection in the west wing, focusing on Berlin’s art scene in global dialogue from 1989 to today. Over 70 works by more than 50 artists, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, […]
[ materialistin ] presents sculptures and site-specific installations at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, which engage with social and cultural-political questions. The group exhibition of eight sculptors working in Leipzig – Laura Eckert, Enne Haehnle, Elisabeth Howey, Lucy König, Agnes Lammert, Wibke Rahn, Theresa Rothe, and Sophie Uchman – highlights new forms of collective […]
„Hi there, how can I simplify your life today?“ We turn to AI with prompts, tasks and requests for analyses, hoping for recommendations, ideas and answers in return. But if we hand over more and more competences to our new assistants, will this really simplify our everyday lives in the long term? New kinds of roommates […]
The exhibition is the first major retrospective of the composer and artist in Europe. Ryuichi Sakamoto is regarded as a pioneer of electronic and experimental music who continually redefined the boundaries between sound, film, performance and visual art. Since the 2000s Sakamoto developed three-dimensional sound environments, often in collaboration with international artists such as Shiro Takatani […]
Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson, and Tomás Saraceno return to Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart: The Rieckhallen were once part of a larger complex of industrial warehouses extending towards Invalidenstraße. Between 2002 and 2013, the five artists had studios here, directly next to Hamburger Bahnhof. Ideas, experiments and works developed in […]