ART 02 ACADEMY OF ARTS PARISER PLATZ
The Berlin Academy was founded in 1696 and is one of Europe‘s oldest cultural institutions. Take a guided tour to find out more about its eventful history and modern glass architecture designed by Günter Behnisch. Or just enjoy a drink on the roof terrace and watch the sun go down with Victoria.
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STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN
Once it caused a scandal – now it’s history. The avant garde pushed the envelope for freedom in subject matter and freedom from institutions when it broke through into the Modern Age. A dazzling exhibition featuring more than 200 works looks at the Secessions in Berlin, Munich and Vienna. Take a seductive tour through this sensual art experience.
14 BERLINISCHE GALERIE “Armoured cruiser”, “mouse bunker”, “Bierpinsel” (“beer brush”) – the more popularity the building has gained, the more creative the nicknames have become. An expert discussion panel looks at the current debates around preserving Berlin’s legendary big buildings and changing the ways they are used. A photo rally through the gallery’s displays conjures up visions for the future.
15 BILDGIESSEREI HERMANN NOACK The Noack Foundry has made its mark on Berlin from the Quadriga to “Golden Else” to the Berlin bear. It has been giving shape to the designs of the world’s most renowned artists for more than 125 years. Take an exclusive tour of the workshop and see for yourself how the Foundry is continuing the rich tradition of craftsmanship and facing the challenges of contemporary art.
19 C/O BERLIN Mass media, advertising and everyday theatricality: Daido Moriyama’s blurry and grainy black-and-white photographs sum up the style of an entire generation. Take a selfie in Moriyama’s “Are, Bure, Bokeh” style or get in the mood for the warm summer evening with the soulful sounds of singersongwriter Aka Kelzz.
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The bluntness of the Berlin Schnauze, it’s heart, history and future – take in the photo exhibition “Berliner Kontraste” (Berlin Contrasts) with a live narrator. Later, DJ sets and Ask Gonzalo’s jazz improvisations will drop some cool sounds.
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Ever wanted to make your own instruments with the Berlin Philharmonic and then try them out on stage? Now’s your chance to make your dream come true. The night also features word artists pitting themselves against each other in a poetry slam on the VeloStage, and the exhibition “The Struggle of Memory” telling of origins and community, colonialism and violence.
DJ Oda Haliti is a major figure in the Balkans electronic music scene and an international sensation far beyond her native Kosovo. She creates her unmistakable style with a masterful combination of disco, techno and acid with experimental industrial electronic music. An unmissable highlight of the summer concert season – just dance!
37 HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT Under new management, the House is exploring Africa’s educational and knowledge practices in its School of Quilombismo. The Middle Ground series focuses on a literary festival founded in Jamaica with readings and discussions. And there’s music too, of course – from children’s disco to an open mic night to DJ sets, there’s something for everyone.
43 KÄTHE-KOLLWITZ-MUSEUM BERLIN The new exhibition rooms are opening for the first time for the Long Night. While exploring, you can enjoy not just the art but also some Baroque instrumental music. Actor Sophia Hahn reads texts from the diary of Käthe Kollwitz and translates them into a movement performance. Enjoy a glass of wine in the park to finish off the evening.
44 KURT MÜHLENHAUPT MUSEUM When Kurt Mühlenhaupt was not busy creating art, he was making music. Many of his instruments from the barrel organ to the accordion will be demonstrated and played during the evening. His motto was art for little people, so children will have the opportunity to print their own pictures this evening.
10 BERLIN MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM Construction is finished and the doors are open again! The current exhibition lets you look behind the scenes of medical brain research and features artistic statements that deal with the brain as a surface for our projections of what it means to be human – in every sense.
54 NEUE NATIONALGALERIE Judit Reigl’s poetic abstractions are closely linked with informalism. An ensemble of soloists turns her paintings into musical compositions, while on the terrace Hengameh Yaghoobifarah celebrates the multi-faceted work of Isa Genzken with live acts you can dance to.
17 BRÖHAN-MUSEUM Samira Aly creates meditative soundscapes on the electric cello inspired by the wave pictures oft the painter Karl Hagemeister, and maritime jewellery pieces can be made with the DesignBox. Adventurers can discover remarkable exhibits that, for one night only, will turn the history of art on its head.
STIFTUNG STADTMUSEUM BERLIN
An opportunity to explore various AI technologies in an open format in Ether’s Bloom. With guidance, you can create your own images and make them materialise using laser cutters or textile printing. If you prefer to relax, why not take part in a sound meditation or chill to DJ sounds on the summer terrace?
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NATURE & TECHNOLOGY
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11 BERLINER U-BAHN-MUSEUM The Berlin U-Bahn has been connecting the city’s districts since 1902. The BVG Museum presents still-working technical equipment used in running the U-Bahn, including types of signalling, a historic clock station, driving switches and a 1931 signal block. Try them out for yourself! There’ll also be live music to get you in the mood.
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12 BERLINER UNTERWELTEN E.V. AEG-TUNNEL
An immersive underground sound experience awaits you as you walk along Germany’s first U-Bahn tunnel and plunge into installations specially developed for the acoustics of this historically resonant space. Bathe in the atmospheric mix of art, light, play and narrative.
60 SCHLOSS BIESDORF Fancy a tour de force? Kopi Kaputa’s musical performance spans a broad range from Dada to medieval ballads and chansons to punk. Alfred Banze invites you on a trip to Tahiti with sound, projections, singing and dance. Gauguin says “Hi!”
ANCIENT ART AND CULTURES
65 STIFTUNG BRANDENBURGER TOR The Swedish Impressionist Anders Zorn painted one of the most famous portraits of Martha Liebermann, which later took on a fateful significance when it was used along with her husband’s portrait as surety for the widow’s failed attempt to flee Nazi Germany. There will be short tours telling you the story of the two paintings.
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MUSEUM FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Urban art is everywhere, whether it’s a mural many metres high or hidden away on columns and roller blinds. It’s arrived in the museum, too, where the stars of the international scene and communication guerrillas show the work with which they rewrite the codes of the urban space. Short tours will let you in on its aesthetic and social significance.
01 ANCIENT CAST-MOULDING COLLECTION To mark its 75th anniversary, the Free University of Berlin is letting you rummage through its drawers and cupboards and discover the diversity of science from archaeology to palaeontology, book production to veterinary medicine, and zoology to physics.
04 ALTES MUSEUM
STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN Schinkel’s museum is one of the most important buildings of the classical style and is home to ancient Greek and Roman masterpieces as well as the largest collection of Etruscan art outside Italy. You can select your very own personal tour to take in architectural highlights, popular works or musical flights into the world of art.
41 JAMES-SIMON-GALERIE
STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN Fine jewellery and delicate statues are testimony to a vanished world that once flourished in Uzbekistan, a culture that was a bridge between East and West even in the Classical Era. Follow the footsteps of Alexander the Great to the empire of the Kushans in this exhibition that brings as many as 280 art treasures from Uzbekistan together to Berlin for the first time.
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STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN Pay a visit to Nefertiti, continue your trip to Uzbekistan or be amazed at the finest pieces of jewellery from Europe’s early period. Take a short tour and find out the difference between a replica and an original or listen to modern compositions based on ancient writings.
30 ENERGY MUSEUM BERLIN Ever wondered how a city like Berlin is kept supplied with electricity? Or how a gas and steam power plant or a Tesla generator works? Or even how AC is converted to DC or what a synchronisation unit is? Well, look no further – you’ll find all the answers and more in the former Steglitz power station, home to more than 5,000 objects.
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STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN Last chance! The Pergamon Museum is closing its doors for three years in the autumn, so take this opportunity for your final gaze upon the Babylonian Ishtar Gate and Processional Way. British artist Liam Gillick will be bathing the monumental sculptures from Tell Halaf in sounds and coloured projections, making everything appear in a new light.
31 FUTURIUM What will we be eating: algae? Jellyfish? Insects? A series of short talks will enlighten you about how the sea can sustainably feed us and why even halophytes should be part of our diet. Check out food trucks offering specially created future food tapas, algae drinks and insect fast food snacks to tease every palate. Of course, there will be music, too. A mouth-watering future!
59 SAMURAI MUSEUM BERLIN Immerse yourself in the mysterious world of the legendary Japanese warriors in Europe’s first Samurai museum. On the original Noh stage, you can listen to the taiko drumming that once helped the Samurai prepare for battle. Families can follow Kitsune the Fox on an interactive journey of discovery.
THEATRE, FILM, MUSIC, LITERATURE
32 GASLICHT KULTUR E.V. More than half the gaslights still in existence worldwide illuminate the streets of Berlin night by night. But where are they, how do they work, and what kinds of gaslights are there? Take a seat up-stairs on a doubledecker bus and let yourself be taken in by the warm glow of the historic street lighting. No gaslighting, we promise.
09 BAUHAUS-ARCHIV MUSEUM FÜR GESTALTUNG
36 HANF MUSEUM Can you hear cannabis? The Klangwirkstoff music label has set the THC and CBD molecules to music, and musicologist Hans Cousto explains his work – the sound is supposed to create the same effect as smoking cannabis. Don’t believe it? Try it for yourself! If it makes you peckish, you can get a snack from the Berliner Hanfwerk.
50 MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE BERLIN Birdsong, the croaking of male toads and the scream of seagulls – the animal kingdom is as diverse as its modes of expression. But have you ever wondered how dinosaurs communicated or whether whales can hear under water? Come and take a look behind the scenes of the collection to find out more – you’re in for a really noisy spectacle!
68 TRABI MUSEUM The Trabi was the “Volkswagen” – the people’s car – of the GDR, and was given all sorts of nicknames, affectionate and not so affectionate. Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the famous two-stroke engine car and its history, as well as its different uses, from “Villa Sachsenruh” to a camping Trabi with a tent roof to the armoured Trabi of the National People’s Army.
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Music set the tone in the Bauhaus, too. Live acts by the Kubik Kollektiv transform its history into sounds ranging from electronic to jazz, while music on the open stage and sets by DJs are firmly in the present. If you prefer to play first flute, then you can make a replica of the Bauhaus band’s historic slide whistle.
18 BUD SPENCER MUSEUM In many of his more than fifty films, Bud Spencer had to answer to some not very flattering names, like Midge, Budino or Hippopotamus. Lean back and enjoy a non-stop viewing of his most well-known films. If you need a break, there’s live music outside to turn up the night.
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MUSEUM FÜR FILM UND FERNSEHEN More than 100 years of film history and 60 years of the Kinemathek are excellent reasons for delving deeper into the world of film and the history of the Kinemathek and letting experts guide you through the exhibition.
47 MUSEUM OF UNHEARD THINGS In Berlin’s smallest museum, Roland Albrecht and Heinz Weber coax unheard sound stories from things in the form of soundscapes from the city space – from the last sigh at Zoo Station to the “hat hearing” from Viktoria Park. A somewhat different symphony of a metropolis.
53 MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Whether it’s a barrel organ playing Berlin hits or June Telletxea and Ensemble recalling the Spanish Renaissance with singing accompanied by lute and oud, music is in the air. At midnight, the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ will be accompanying the classic silent film “Berlin – Symphony of a Metropolis” live.
58 THEATRE PUPPET MUSEUM Come and enjoy a fairy tale night! Clara Isenmann is the circus and circus director in one and the same person, and when she lifts her magical velvet skirt, she brings an entire universe to life. If you need a reason to stick around, the idyllic rear courtyard has a prosecco bar...
63 STABI KULTURWERK A musical firework display by singer Giovanna Piazza and guitarist Carlos Corona performing classics from Europe and Latin America awaits you in the Brunnenhof fountain courtyard. Inside, be amazed at treasures like the Gutenberg Bible and a manuscript of the Nibelungenlied, or let restorers tell you about their work.
73 WILHELM FOERSTER OBSERVATORY STIFTUNG PLANETARIUM BERLIN
Wonders at the speed of light await you as you peer through the telescope into the depths of space. What constellations will you be able to observe tonight on the stage of the heavens, and which planets and signs of the zodiac are crossing the sky?
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STIFTUNG PLANETARIUM BERLIN The Planetarium was built in 1987, making it one of the last big prestige building projects in the GDR. It’s now the most modern science theatre in Europe, where an evening’s entertainment of breathtaking 360° full-dome projection awaits you. Outside, musical sets from Dance Depot and DJ Victor Bongiovanni provide a galactic sound accompaniment.
FOR CHILDREN 07 ARCHENHOLD OBSERVATORY STIFTUNG PLANETARIUM BERLIN
HISTORY & SOCIETY 05 ANNE FRANK ZENTRUM Her diary is world-famous. Anne Frank is part of the family history of Chasan Jalda Rebling, a Jewish cantor and actress, whose mother met Anne in the concentration camp and witnessed her death in Bergen-Belsen. This evening, Jalda will be singing songs and telling stories about Jewish worlds.
06 ANTI-WAR MUSEUM This is the first museum of its kind in the world and was founded in 1925 when the horrors of the First World War were still fresh. You can watch a film about how the museum was created, and go down into the original air-raid shelter to experience for yourself the oppressive, nightmarish feeling of seeking refuge there. A live performance of workers’ songs from the 20s recalls the culture of resistance.
08 ASISI PANORAMA BERLIN What did everyday life in Kreuzberg in the 80s sound like? The 15 x 60 metre Berlin Panorama by the artist Yadegar Asisi is living history for the senses. Come and take an unusual journey through time in the shadow of the Wall in a 12-minute sound installation featuring scenes from everyday life and historic sound documents.
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20 COLD WAR MUSEUM
25 DEUTSCHES HISTORISCHES MUSEUM
39 HUMBOLDT FORUM
62 GAY MUSEUM
This interactive museum was opened last year and is dedicated to the Cold War, featuring everything from the bloc formation after 1945 and the threat of nuclear war to espionage. Immerse yourself in the musical history of the period, reflecting cultural changes East and West. But bring your own headphones if you want to get the best sound!
Wolf Biermann was famous as a rebel long before he became a star, and the GDR lost a giant when it exiled him. Join us in celebrating his life’s work and listening to his music. Express tours show us turning points in Germany history and a programme of short films reveals the sounds of Berlin.
You can follow the Stegreif Orchester to the opening of the Long Night, or you can beat the drums yourselves! Here’s your chance to find out everything about the Schlosskeller, living with death, or the ramifications of climate change. Later on, DJ Jeff will be creating a mood for dancing with sounds from Afrobeats to dance hall.
Queer, charming and militant, drag queen Jona Gold unpacks her wildest experiences. The performance by Peach Fuzz combines sexiness, humour and activism, while Sigrid Grajek belts out songs from the Twenties and Gaby Tupper takes you on a tour of the exhibition on queer movements since Stonewall.
21 COMPUTER GAME MUSEUM A nerd’s paradise! An opportunity to play Pong from the 70s, Space Invaders from the 80s and Super Mario from the 90s in authentically recreated rooms and journey through 70 years of the cultural history of games with both rarities and 3D simulators. There’s also an exhibition devoted to how games address the feeling of longing.
26 DEUTSCHES SPIONAGEMUSEUM In the Spy Museum, everyone’s a secret agent! You can follow the trail of old secret codes, encrypt messages, intercept secret radio transmissions and make your way through the laser obstacle course. When you’re done saving the world, what’s better than a Martini à la James Bond – shaken not stirred, of course.
It encapsulates yearning, and resistance, and freedom. Glide in cradle step on a trip through the world of Jewish tango with a milonga by Lavinia Torrebruno and Chiche Núñez. You can take to the floor yourself or just let the music of DJ Nikolay Karabinovych ease you through the night.
What better way to restrict the freedom of women than to bind their feet and lace their bodies into corsets? An exhibition explores the custom of “lotus feet” in Imperial China, with curators on hand to explain how that worked. Weigh in – how can we liberate ourselves from beauty standards and conventional gender stereotypes?
28 DEUTSCHLANDMUSEUM 22 DDR MUSEUM Can you remember Karat, the Puhdys, Silly or City, East German bands that were known even beyond the border? Take a trip down memory lane with the music of the GDR, from dance music to underground music to the classic workers’ song. But stay sharp – there’ll be a music quiz to test your knowledge!
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PARLAMENTSHISTORISCHE AUSSTELLUNG Ever ask yourself how politics works? Or what exactly democracy is? The children’s film Applaus für Felix – ein Tag im Bundestag (Applause for Felix – A Day in the Bundestag) featuring Uwe Ochsenknecht as an usher provides the answers. Unfortunately, though, it’s only in German. You can even take part in a simulated debate in the Chamber and make your own speech.
Join us for a crash course on 2,000 years of German history, from the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest to Angela Merkel’s resounding “We can do it!” History can be loud, too – the National Anthem, cannon fire, Minnesang and the Love Parade create a unique cacophony!
29 THE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE FOR DISPLACEMENT, EXPULSION, RECONCILIATION Ukrainian writers talk about the consequences of the war, losing their homes and starting again, while the Russian media artist Nikita A. Trachtenberg Zhukovskiy and DJ Rabon Aibo from Syria get you up and dancing. The Rappers without Borders initiative, which works with young refugees, serves up a performance laden with activism.
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Feminist debate plays out as a show fight where lady wrestlers tussle in the ring in the atrium. If you prefer it more relaxing, there’s always summer cinema featuring Berlin’s top cult music flicks. The legendary closing party will be rocking to hip hop icon Lena Stoehrfaktor and the funky beats of DJ duo Marisa Akeny and Boogie Dan.
This will be your last chance to be amazed at the more than 20,000 objects in Kreuzberg. The legendary Kreuzberg Kiezbingo (neighbourhood bingo) is making a guest appearance, and tonight it won’t be the real-estate sharks who win! Come along and give it a whirl!
52 MUSEUM PANKOW
72 WERKSTATT EXILMUSEUM
The exhibition “Musica di Strada” reveals that the barrel organ scene that’s oh-so Berlin actually owes its existence to the traditional handicrafts of Italian immigrants. Here’s your chance to hear for yourself the mechanical musical instruments that were made around 1900 and exported all over the world.
How’s your Charleston? Come and strut your stuff as a swing dance bar revives the Roaring Twenties, while actor and politician Anne Helm pays homage to the political songs of Brecht, Weill and Eisler. This is an interim location to give you an idea of things to come when the future Exile Museum opens in 2027.
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13 BERLINER UNTERWELTEN E.V. EXHIBITION MYTHOS GERMANIA
27 DEUTSCHES TECHNIKMUSEUM LADESTRASSE AND SCIENCE CENTER SPECTRUM
If you want to see how aeroplanes are created with a 3D printer or how the humanoid robot NAO works, or if you would like to build your own aerodynamic speedster, this is the place for you, an experimental laboratory. Those with a wistful yearning for the good old days can ride in a vintage car to the Humboldt Forum – free of charge with your Long Night ticket.
45 LABYRINTH KINDERMUSEUM Here’s your chance to make old throwaway stuff into musical instruments and then try them out in a concert where everyone can join in. Oh, and did you know that the city makes a special sound at night? If you listen carefully, you can turn what you hear into a scratch painting.
46 MACHMIT! MUSEUM FÜR KINDER The new exhibition lets you find answers to questions like how to keep a cool head or how to warm up a friendship. It’s freezing cold in the snow room and warm and snuggly in the museum sauna, with a whole colourful range of creative things to do.
Hitler planned to give concrete shape to his claim to world domination by completely redesigning the Reich capital city of Berlin. But what is left of the Myth of Germania today? Join the curator in looking at the huge model of the city.
16 BLACKBOX KALTER KRIEG The exhibition building is just a few metres from the former border crossing at Checkpoint Charlie and reflects the events of the Cold War. It’s only open until the end of the year, so you’ll need to hurry if you want to transport yourself into a time of spectacular spy stories and dangerous confrontations on the brink of nuclear war.
33 BERLIN-HOHENSCHOENHAUSEN MEMORIAL 11,000 people were interned here between 1945 and 1989. Hardly any other site in Germany is more closely connected with the political persecution in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the GDR than this memorial. There are guided tours to lead you through the prison cells and the only prison hospital run by the GDR State Security Service.
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254 steps take you up to Berlin’s oldest carillon in the French Cathedral, where Frank Müller will be waiting to play it for you and tell you all about it. In the French Church of Friedrichstadt, as it’s officially called, you can listen to a concert of organ music by the church’s musical director, Kilian Nauhaus, playing works by Bach, Hensel and Mendelssohn.
The site of the Ministry of State Security of the GDR is now a place of enlightenment. On a night-time tour, the grotesque architecture of the one-time surveillance machine is seen in the cone of light from a torch. A sound installation on ‘Radio Glasnost’ recalls the voice of the GDR opposition in West Berlin.
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40 INFORMATIONSORT SCHWERBELASTUNGSKÖRPER This round construction weighing 12,000 tons was built by the Nazis in 1941 to test the load-bearing stability of the ground for the Triumphal Arch being planned by Albert Speer. It has survived as a relic and serves as a warning. Guided tours let you explore this bizarre building.
The Nazi machinery of persecution and terror had its central headquarters just a few steps away from Potsdamer Platz. Now it is a documentation centre detailing the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis. This is also where the Gestapo once had its prison, and this fateful place for many opponents of the regime is recalled in a special exhibition.
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STIFTUNG STADTMUSEUM BERLIN
Take a trip back in time to the age of Biedermeier and the Knoblauch merchant family in reconstructed living rooms with original furniture, accompanied by music played on a lyre piano to make the epoch come to life.
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Tears and anger, yearning and desperation come together in this place where heartrending scenes of separation and farewell once played out. The S-Bahn station on Berlin’s Friedrichstrasse was the last stop before the border in divided Berlin. Learn more about what travelling and border crossing were like in the GDR at Berlin’s Palace of Tears.
Have you ever asked yourself how a palace can be decolonised? An exhibition here might provide an answer as it examines the objects in the collection and brings this hot topic vividly to life with a multitude of voices. On a more cheerful note, a guided tour led by palace director Rudolf Scharmann will introduce you to the music loved by Queen Sophia Charlotte and to her musical instruments.
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75 museums across Berlin are open for you tonight from 6 pm to 2 am! It’s a night of contrasts – bringing the past to life or asking what’s on the menu of the future – bringing distant cultures closer or letting us examine our own neighbourhoods more closely – demonstrating turn-of-the-century technical innovations or showcasing contemporary art.
You can get to all the museums all night long by U-Bahn or S-Bahn, tram or bus. For shorter trips, book an e-bike, scooter or e-moped on the Jelbi app. You can claim your €10 voucher by showing your Long Night ticket at one of the special Jelbi pop-ups, then off you go!
The Museum Island is where it all began, serving as the origin and centrepiece of Berlin’s museum landscape. This year, it’s a special meeting place – the Kultursommerfestival 2023 will fill the open spaces around the Humboldt Forum and Lustgarten with life. Experience an unusual open-air programme that includes a mobile orchestra snaking along the banks of the Spree, join in a collective drumming session, or dance to musical performances among the columns of the Colonnade Courtyard. We’ll top it off with electronic sounds to end the evening on tempo. The Long Night Centre burns brightly at its core – we’ll be here all evening long to help you on your way with tips and recommendations. Enjoy a snack from the international cuisine on offer to keep you going or just enjoy a drink and let the lights and sounds work their magic.
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Berlin is bursting with its own special sounds and noises, from barrel organs to incoming U-Bahn trains, Biedermeier home music to techno, Cold War radio messages to the song of the nightingale. You’ll be able to hear some of these bewitching sounds this evening because this year’s Long Night of Museums theme is “Sounds of Berlin”. You can listen to historic audio recordings, guess the titles of well-known songs, let yourself be shaken up by the engine noise of a vintage Jaguar, and even build your own musical instrument! Concerts across town let you dance the night away to the rhythms of some of the international musicians and DJs who make Berlin’s music scene so vibrant.
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Gaze up at the stars and discover the universe in this, the oldest and biggest observatory in Germany comprising the Zeiss small planetarium and the longest moveable lens telescope on earth with a focal length of 21 metres. Find out what a counting telescope is and what cosmic radiation is all about, or make your own sundial.
Our shuttle buses let you explore museums away from the city centre. The buses on the Art and Music route will take you to the museums in Charlottenburg, the Stasi History route connects the Stasi Headquarters in Lichtenberg with the Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial, or you can take a ride into Berlin’s south on a vintage bus on the History of Technology route.
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