At the weekend, Berlin invites you again to a “Long night of the museums”. Such Events are now available in more than 120 cities worldwide. But Berlin nights is the “mother of all the Museum”.
The Long night of the museums is a visitor magnet
It’s a balmy summer promises to be night. Perfect conditions for the “Long night of the museums” on may 31. August for the 39. Time in Berlin. From 18 o’clock in the evening until 2 o’clock in the Morning will again be tens of thousands of people on the go. You can stroll from Museum to Museum, or climb into the Shuttle buses that bring you to the next place. Smaller houses and galleries also open their doors to as many of the major museums and memorials in the capital.
The cultural night is traditionally on the “Museum island”, this time with a dance performance on the Grand staircase of the recently opened James-Simon-Galerie. A total of 75 museums in Berlin open their doors. 750 events are on the programme: special guided tours, lectures, films, Workshops, a culinary and Musical.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinTopography of terror: 1.3 million visitors
The most visited memorial in Berlin since years, the NS-documentation centre not far from the Potsdamer Platz. 1.3 million visitors here in the past year over the extent of a Europe-wide crimes of the Nazis. This is the place the most important centres of national socialist terror were located from 1933 to 1945 the Gestapo and SS.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinBerlin Wall Memorial: 1.1 Million Visitors
Where was the Berlin wall? How did the Berlin from 1961 to 1989, in the divided city? Place of visitor interest, the Berlin wall memorial located on Bernauer Strasse. You informed about the background of the Berlin wall, and is reminiscent of a tragic Escape fates.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinPergamon Museum: 780.000 Visitors
It is a treasure trove of ancient, Islamic, and near Eastern art. Although the Pergamon Altar, the heart of the house, is not due to construction at the time, the Museum on place three of the most visited museums in Berlin. Because continuous access to treasures such as the Ishtar gate velvet procession street of Babylon (see photo). It is one of the “Seven wonders of the world ancient times”.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinGerman Historical Museum: 775.000 Visitors
A journey through 2000 years of German history, the German Historical Museum on the Boulevard promises to unter den Linden. The arc stretches from the conquests of Charlemagne over Luther’s theses to the German reunification. The Museum’s collection includes about one Million objects. But fear not, it will be always issued only about 7,000.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinNew Museum: 770,000 Visitors
The mysterious Egyptian Queen Nefertiti is one of the most famous art treasures in the world, and to the outstanding exhibits in the New Museum. The house is part of Berlin’s Museum island, and not only houses treasures from the time of the pharaohs, but also from the stone and bronze age.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinMuseum of natural history: of 734,000 visitors
The Brachiosaurus is 13.27 meters in height, the world’s largest skeleton of a dinosaur and the favorite of the visitors to the natural history Museum. The collections were founded in 1810 as part of the Berlin University, and now include around 30 million objects.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinJewish Museum: 620.000 Visitors
The architect Daniel Libeskind had chosen a dramatic architecture, viewed From above, the building looks like a broken star of David. The Jewish Museum in Berlin-Kreuzberg is an Overview of 1700 years of German-Jewish history.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinGerman Museum Of Technology: 593.000
A raisin bomber as a reminder of the Berlin airlift by the allies – that is the visible figurehead of the Museum of technology, close to the Potsdamer Platz. The exhibits include wind mills, steam engines, ships, and also the first Computer in the world, built in 1936 from the Berlin inventor Konrad Zuse.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinDDR Museum: 585.000 visitors
What was life like in the GDR, such as the everyday life of the people felt? A sense of wants to convey to the GDR-Museum in Berlin-Mitte. Visitors can put there, for example in the East German car Trabant, or by a original furnished housing apartment to go and take a look in the Stasi-the listening Room just next door.
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Top 10: The most visited museums in BerlinCharlottenburg Castle 548.000 Visitors
On the tenth place of the Berlin Museum, the ranking of a masterpiece of Prussian Rococo is located:, the former summer Palace of Sophie Charlotte, the first Queen of Prussia. To admire the full Ballrooms and living are magnificent rooms, precious porcelain, paintings, silver work and the Prussian crown insignia.
A Marketing idea is to export
The Start in the Winter of 1997 was much more modest: 18 homes participated in the first Long night of the museums, including the Museum of natural history, the German Historical Museum, the berlinische Galerie, the Gropius-Bau and the castle Charlottenburg. The idea of the unusual opening Hours came from Marketing experts. The goal was, the Locals and the guests stepping in the museums of the city of lure.
The action became an instant success. Over 30,000 visitors flocked to that first Long night in the museums. At the second Berlin edition in August 1997, 27 houses have been involved already. Prompt, the next record number of visitors: 50.000 experience hungry.
The Marketing Hit soon made international the round. Today, there are the long Museum nights in more than 120 cities worldwide: in London, Paris and Amsterdam as well as in Bratislava or Buenos Aires.
Program for regulars and newcomers
Also in Berlin, the concept has redeemed none of its appeal. On the contrary, the Long night of the museums of new Fans reveals always. Surveys showed that in the past year, 54 percent of the visitors were there for the first Time.
This summer, a rise of ten new museums to the program, including the newly opened Pergamon-Panorama, the New synagogue of Berlin, the castle Biesdorf, the Heimatmuseum Zehlendorf and the Open-Air exhibition “The war and I”.
Bauhaus for everyone
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On the traces of the Bauhaus in Berlin
The Long night of the museums this year, at the same time, the opening of the festival “Bauhaus week” with a showcase exhibition on the history of the famous art and design school, with yoga classes on roof terraces and an Open-Air film series. In the Long night you can, for example, in the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, a famous designs of the Bauhaus masters and students show, in the work of the Federal archives about the authenticity of the Bauhaus-lamps a fight, or on the forum of culture and test, whether it be a Design classic such as the tubular steel chairs of Marcel Breuer are also convenient.