Vaccination with art

News from 06/04/2021

Works of art in Berlin's vaccination centers: large posters featuring objects from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin create a positive atmosphere.

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© SPK / Birgit Jöbstl

Since the beginning of June, large posters with art works from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage) have graced Berlin's six vaccination centers. The images were first used to advertise the museums' reopening and have been adapted for display in the centers. Dilek Kalayci, Hermann Parzinger and Michael Eissenhauer presented the new poster campaign to the press and public today at the vaccination center in the city’s Tegel district.

SPK President Parzinger said: "Vaccination centers are places of hope and confidence, places that show the way to the end of the pandemic. By showing art in the vaccination centers, the SPK hopes to reinforce this idea."

Measuring two by one meters, the posters feature works from the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings), the Pergamonmuseum, the Alte Nationalgalerie and the Neues Museum. They also carry the hash tag #endlichwiederoffen in reference to the advertising campaign of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which reopened on May 21.

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