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Here you find all about our planned events and we draw your attention to special guided tours and let you take part in stories in front of and behind the scenes of the museum.

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum currently offers various digital tours! For example, let our Kollwitz Guide accompany you through the permanent exhibition and learn more background information about the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz. Or discover places in Berlin that inspired Käthe Kollwitz or where she worked artistically with the Käthe TO GO tour.

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Current construction work
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is expanding its new exhibition rooms on the first floor. The museum plans to move into the rooms in spring 2025. The museum with its Kollwitz exhibition will remain open. There may be considerable noise disturbance during the construction work. We apologise for this. We will inform you as soon as possible about any restrictions on opening hours. Thank you for your understanding!

Overview of upcoming events

Cultural Sunday walk

GUIDED TOUR

Art historian Dr Eva Morawietz will guide you through the museum sculpture landscape “Figures in the Park” on the grounds of the DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend.

Sunday, July 14, 2024
11.00
Meeting point main entrance at DRK Kliniken (Spandauer Damm 130)
Admission fee 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros (payment on site/cash only)

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Annot Jacobi – Painter and peace activist

LECTURE

Art historian Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller introduces the life and work of Annot Jacobi (Berlin 1894 – Munich 1981), the prolific artist and great-niece of the painter Adolph Menzel, who is well worth getting to know.

Thursday, June 20, 2024
19.00
Admission fee 5 euros | reduced 3 euros

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Dance of death. 1923 and its consequences

READING

How did Käthe Kollwitz and her contemporaries experience the inflation year of 1923?
Jutta Hoffritz has investigated this question and reads from her book about the rapid decline of the paper mark in the German Reich.

Friday, May 17, 2024
19.00
Admission fee 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros

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On the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’s death

The great artist died 79 years ago today on April 22, 1945 in Moritzburg near Dresden. The news of her death was lost in the confusion of the last days of the war and the liberation by the Allies; it was not until the summer that the news reached the general public. In destroyed Berlin, her adopted home, an extensive Käthe Kollwitz memorial exhibition was organized for the autumn of the same year…

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