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Welcome! You are invited to the State Museums

Workshops for Refugees: Children and Families

Welcome to the Berlin State Museums! There’s plenty for you to discover in our diverse range of museums! We are inviting you to our workshops to explore our various museums and try out different forms of artistic expression. Assistants from our Education and Communication department will accompany you on your expedition.

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for the Present) – Berlin In love with painting Painting is simply fantastic! It can be so diverse: one colour or multi-coloured, modest or wild, serious or funny. Famous artists show us everything painting can do and the things we can experience with it. We will try out various painting techniques and develop our own, individual painting style. It’s really fun!

Altes Museum (Old Museum) Mosaic Ancient Romans decorated their villas with colourful mosaics, pictures made of small stones. They are beautiful to look at and give us an insight into life as it was thousands of years ago. See how a mosaic is constructed, how one picture can be formed with many stones, and give it a go yourself.

Neues Museum (New Museum) The most beautiful woman in Egypt What does Egypt’s most beautiful woman look like? What sort of jewellery does she wear? During a round tour of the New Museum, we will explore the roles that jewellery, fashion, makeup and hairstyling played for the women and men in ancient Egypt. In the studio, we will design our own jewellery in the style that the ancient Egyptians loved.

Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) Animal fun The animals have escaped in the Old National Gallery! Come and help us track them down. In the museum, we will discover dogs, goats, monkeys, lions and even a horse with wings! With your own folding book, you can create a funny zoo on paper and take it home with you.

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Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) Paper dresses Fashion is change. In our fashion studio, we will experience the appeal of fashion on our own bodies. We will design extraordinary creations and cut them out of paper, experimenting with shapes and colours. Wearing our paper dresses, we will pose in front of a mirror and camera and witness our own transformation up close.

Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection Take a chance Without a plan – mix colours, paint with string, put the bottom at the top, let the lines meander and get ready to be surprised... we will be investigating the accidental techniques used by surrealists and seeing what can emerge from dots and lines when your brain doesn’t intervene.

Workshops for refugees: children and families 120 minutes/max. 25 participants All offers can be booked in German and English. If required, events can be accompanied by an Arabic or Farsi-speaking interpreter (subject to availability).

Thanks to support from the advisory board at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, we are able to offer this programme for refugees free of charge and will also bear the costs for travelling here via public transport. Entry to the museums is free for the participants and the accompanying aid workers.

Information and booking: Berlin State Museums Education, Communication, Visitor Services 030 266 42 42 42 (Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 16:00) [email protected]

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Welcome! You are invited to the Berlin State Museums

Offers for Refugees: Adults

Welcome to the Berlin State Museums! We are inviting you to discover the highlights and showpieces in our diverse range of museums. Our arts and cultural assistants will accompany you on your round tours of the museums.

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Museum for the Present) – Berlin Contemporary art The Hamburger Bahnhof is home to one of the world’s largest and most significant public collections of contemporary art. During a group tour, you will witness various stages in contemporary art and discuss them together.

Altes Museum (Old Museum) The ancient world in the Old Museum The introduction to the exhibition gives you your first steps into the ancient world in the Old Museum. Inside the impressive museum architecture from the 19th century, you can immerse yourself in the ancient world of gods and heroes and gain an insight into the lives of the Romans, Greeks and Etruscans with the aid of original artefacts.

Neues Museum (New Museum) The diversity of the ancient Egyptians The round tour gives you access to the collections in this Egyptian museum: a sarcophagus weighing tons, papyrus as light as a feather and finely worked reliefs invite you to examine them closely. Selected highlights like elaborate burial objects, ritual chambers and the famous bust of Nefertiti bring the history of ancient Egypt to life.

Museum Berggruen In other words , Henri Matisse, Paul Klee or Paul Cézanne – there’s a lot to be said about these and other modernist artists in the Museum Berggruen. But what do their works mean to us personally? What associations do we make? We will collect people’s individual words on the artwork, write or draw them down and exchange our views on them.

Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery) Paintings and from the 19th Century The Old National Gallery houses paintings and sculptures from the 19th century. During a round tour through the impressive building, we will behold works by famous artists such as the romanticist Caspar David Friedrich, the German-Roman Arnold Böcklin, the impressionist Claude Monet and the realist Adolph Menzel.

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Pergamonmuseum () Monumental architecture in the Pergamon Museum The colourful Ishtar Gate and the richly adorned Mshatta Facade are just two of the Pergamon Museum’s special highlights. During our round tour, we will discuss the meaning and function of both of these monumental structures, which are now part of the Near Eastern Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art collection in the Pergamon Museum.

90 minutes/max. 25 participants All offers can be booked in German and English. If required, events can be accompanied by an Arabic or Farsi-speaking interpreter (subject to availability).

Thanks to support from the advisory board at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, we are able to offer this programme for refugees free of charge and will also bear the costs for travelling here via public transport. Entry to the museums is free for the participants and the accompanying aid workers.

Information and booking: Berlin State Museums Education, Communication, Visitor Services 030 266 42 42 42 (Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 16:00) [email protected]

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