About us

Berlin is unique in the world for the sheer range of museums on offer. The city’s museums not only preserve treasures of world cultures and outstanding art from the Middle Ages to the present day, but also display extraordinary finds from the field of natural history as well as objects that bear testimony to historical developments in the field of technology. The history of National Socialism and the division of Germany is conveyed at locations where significant happenings originally occurred. Numerous museums throughout the city are dedicated to individual artists or to specialised themes of cultural history.

Once a year, when the summer is drawing to a close, this museum landscape shines like a star in the sky, namely, during the Long Night of Museums. On this night, 70 to 80 museums, memorials, exhibition centres and planetariums open their doors and welcome everyone: children, young and old people, Berlin natives and new Berliners, art fans and technology nerds, culture vultures and those who want to discover Berlin’s museums in a whole new light. Guided tours at the venues provide visitors with their first insights, entertain them and establish connections of relevance to their everyday lives. It is the night when Berliners find their new favourite museums and discover their city’s wealth of cultural treasures, original historical sites and stories preserved in collections.

  • Lustgarten
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin
  • Opening speech in front of the Altes Museum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Anna Tiessen
  • ‘Beating the Drum’ in front of the Humboldt Forum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Alexander Rentsch
  • ‘Eva Fàbregas: Devouring Lovers’ at Hamburger Bahnhof
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Melanie Sapina
  • ‘Museum Island Hub’ at the Lustgarten
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Anna Tiessen
  • Tango at the Jewish Museum Berlin
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Melanie Sapina
  • Deutsches Technikmuseum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Marion Borriss
  • C/O Berlin
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Katinka Schuett

To this day, the Long Night of Museums, invented in Berlin in 1997 and since then imitated throughout the world, continues to attract tens of thousands of visitors – with numbers constantly increasing in recent years. Berlin’s museums closely cooperate with us – Kulturprojekte Berlin (a company owned by the federal state of Berlin) – to bring the city’s museum landscape into focus once a year. Each museum provides an attractive programme tailored to its premises and collection, takes visitors behind the scenes, and invites guests and experts to offer their insights. Out of these scattered 75 locations and hundreds of separate events, we create a whole that we promote with vibrant creativity and transform into a major summer event that has become an annual highlight for many Berliners.

  • Opening show in front of the James-Simon-Galerie
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Oana Popa
  • Bauhaus photo studio at the Kulturforum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Oana Popa
  • Museum Berggruen Foyer
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Melanie Sapina
  • Dance performance in the Schlüterhof of the Deutsches Historisches Museum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Marion Borriss
  • Futurium
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Peter-Paul Weiler
  • ‘Covergirls’ at the Kulturforum Berlin
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Oana Popa
  • Opening show in front of the Altes Museum
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Christian Kielmann
  • Neue Nationalgalerie
    © Kulturprojekte Berlin, Photo: Katinka Schütt

In figures

1997

120

50.000