The Long Night of Museums 2024

On 24 August, 45,000 visitors explored 75 Berlin museums, which offered express tours and talks, workshops and demonstrations, rallies and vintage car rides. The new Museo-Mat – a playful online tool that recommended events based on a short personality test – on the website proved a helpful guide through the vast programme.

Many began their evening at the Museumsinsel meeting point, enjoying Scottish folk music and traditional Indian sounds in the warm summer twilight. Ensembles from Young Euro Classic also took part in the Long Night of Museums.

The theme of this year’s Long Night was “Berlin Secrets”. Night owls marvelled at curious recent discoveries in the Samurai Museum and the Stasi Museum, cracked codes and learned secret scripts, thrilled to crime stories and ghost tales, and explored crypts and bunkers.

Around midnight, the Late Night Specials drew in thousands more: people danced salsa with abandon at the German Historical Museum, sang karaoke outside the Futurium, and watched the voguing ball shake the Museum for Communication. Meanwhile, the Berlin Museum of Medical History hosted a haunting musical performance in its ruined lecture hall.

Participating Museums 2024

From classical art to mysterious natural phenomena, from hidden stories to the vibrant diversity of Berlin’s urban culture – 75 museums across the city opened their doors and showcased their programmes. Here you can see which museums took part in the Long Night of Museums 2024, organised according to the event’s four themes.

• Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik
• Akademie der Künste
• Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung
• Berlinische Galerie
• Bildgießerei Hermann Noack
• Bröhan-Museum
• C/O Berlin
• f³ – freiraum für fotografie
• Fotografiska Berlin
• Gemäldegalerie
• Gropius Bau
• Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
• Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
• Kunstgewerbemuseum
• Kupferstichkabinett
• Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum
• KW Institute for Contemporary Art
• Museum für Fotografie
• Neue Nationalgalerie
• PalaisPopulaire
• Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
• Stiftung Brandenburger Tor

• Archenhold-Sternwarte
• Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum
• Berliner U-Bahn-Museum
• Deutsches Technikmuseum
• Energie-Museum Berlin
• Futurium
• Gaslicht-Kultur e.V.
• Hanf Museum Berlin
• Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
• Trabi Museum Berlin
• Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte
• Zeiss-Großplanetarium

• Altes Museum
• Anne Frank Zentrum
• Anti-Kriegs-Museum
• asisi Panorama Berlin
• Berliner Unterwelten e.V.
• Bundesnachrichtendienst
• Deutsches Historisches Museum
• Deutsches Spionagemuseum
• Deutschlandmuseum
• Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
• Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen
• Hugenottenmuseum Berlin
• James-Simon-Galerie
• Mitte Museum
• Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
• Museum Ephraim-Palais
• Museum Knoblauchhaus
• Museum Nikolaikirche
• Musikinstrumenten-Museum
• Neues Museum
• Polizeihistorische Sammlung
• Samurai Museum Berlin
• Schloss Charlottenburg
• Stabi Kulturwerk
• Stasi-Zentrale
• Topographie des Terrors

• Computerspielemuseum
• DDR Museum
• Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen
• Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• Humboldt Forum
• Jüdisches Museum Berlin
• Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin
• MACHmit! Museum für Kinder
• Museum der Unerhörten Dinge
• Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
• Puppentheater-Museum Berlin
• Schwules Museum
• SpencerHill World Berlin
• Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge