Archive for category Museums & Exhibitions
The Story of Berlin - A first hand Interactive History
Posted by Pia in Museums & Exhibitions on juillet 19th, 2010
The permanent exhibition “The Story of Berlin” at Kurfürstendamm invites visitors to immerse into the history of the German capital in 23 theme rooms. The exhibition includes multimedia elements such as up-to-date animation technology and walk through sets to enable everyone to experience the different phases of the 800 years of the capital’s development, from its trading centre status in the Middle Ages to the Fall of The Berlin Wall.
The Story of Berlin successfully integrates modern exhibition features together with original models and lavishly reconstructed historic facsimiles to help the visitor “feel” the atmosphere of the city’s then and now.
Instead of merely displaying dates and facts about historical personalities, the priority is given to the Berliners and their lifestyle at certain points in history.
Visual elements such as 3D figures and elaborately constructed lightning vividly create the ambiance of the ancient.
A very special feature and a must-see is the nuclear bomb shelter from
the Cold War. It has been constructed for the inhabitants of West Berlin in order to prevent a huge nuclear contagion and now is an impressive reminder of the fear in the days of the Cold War.
Being situated underneath Kurfürstendamm, the shelter can be visited with a tour guide supporting the visitors with striking and at the same time distressing facts and details of the shelter.
Every hour sharp, the tour starts its journey into the past and underground.
Opening hours:
Open daily from 10 am to 8 pm.
No entry after 6 p.m. The last guided tour through the nuclear shelter starts at 6 pm.
THE STORY OF BERLIN
Kurfürstendamm 207-208
10719 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (0) 30 / 887 20 100
Telefax: +49 (0) 30 / 887 20 230
info@story-of-berlin.de
Metro: S-Bahn Savignyplatz S5 S7 S9 S75
U Uhlandstraße U1
The Martin-Gropius-Bau - Bicentario of Mexico with the exhibition “Teotihuacan - Mexico´s Mysterious Pyramid City”
Posted by Pia in Museums & Exhibitions on juillet 1st, 2010
The museum Martin-Gropius-Bau is one of the leading international exhibition grounds, having recently hosted extraordinary exhibitions such as “Man Ray”, “Modell Bauhaus”, “Teotihuacan: Mexico´s Mysterious Pyramid City” and “Frida Kahlo - Retrospective”. Their programs includes spectacular archeological discoveries and newest findings, contemporary art and photography. Its central location in the middle of the city, located opposite Berlin’s parliamentary building and near Potsdamer Platz, make the Martin-Gropius-Bau an important centre of attraction.
Program during IFA (03.Sep. to 09 Sep.):
© Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México
One of the current exhibitions presents Teotihuacan - Mexico’s mysterious Pyramid City. More than 450 outstanding objects giving a comprehensive insight into the art, everyday life and religion of this enigmatic culture will be on view in Europe for the first time. They include specimens of monumental architecture, filigree vessels and figures, costly stone carvings, masks, statues of gods and representations of animals as well as examples of highly symbolic murals which have retained their brilliant colours since their creation some 2,000 years ago. Permission has been given for the first (and probably the last) time for the 15 large-format fragments of murals to be sent abroad. Numerous exhibits were only discovered in the latest excavations.
© Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes – Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México
In its Classical Epoch (100 B.C. to 650 A.D.) Teotihuacan was the first, largest and most influential metropolis on the American continent. Some thousand years later, in the 14th century, when the Aztecs discovered the abandoned ruins of the city, they gave it the name of Teotihuacan – “the place at which men become gods” – and used it as the setting for their own creation myth.
Upcoming: The painter of black and light: Pierre Soulages
Also from October 2010 on, the Martin-Gropius-Bau will be hosting an exhibition of Pierre Soulages, the most well-known of living French painter. Soon to be ninetyone, Soulages, the “painter of black and light,” is recognized as one of the major abstract artists of the post-War period. Looking back over more than 60 years of activity, this autumn’s exhibition will offer a new reading of the artist’s work, with an emphasis on recent developments in his painting. It will bring together more than a hundred major pieces produced between 1946 and the present, from the tremendous walnut-stain works of 1947-1949 to the paintings of the recent years – many of the latter here exhibited for the first time – testimony to the dynamism and diversity of a body of work characterised by ceaseless development.
Opening hours:
From 17 July to 24 July, open daily from 9.am to 8 pm
From 24 July to 9 August, open daily from 9 am to 10 pm
From 10 August open daily from 10 am to 8 pm, closed on Tuesday
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7 | Corner Stresemannstr. 110 - 10963 Berlin
Phone +49 (0)30 254 86-0
Fax +49 (0)30 254 86-107
post@gropiusbau.de
Metro: S Bahn S1 S2 S25
U Kochstraβe U6
