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Museum Island Berlin is kicking off its fifth anniversary year with a kick-off weekend centred around UNESCO World Heritage Day. The island festival from 30 May to 1 June 2025 will offer a broad daytime programme in the museums as well as a stage programme around the buildings into the evening hours. All outdoor events are free of charge. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has issued particularly attractive tickets for the programmes in the museums.

With the day ticket (€14, reduced €7), which is normally only valid for one museum, all six museums - the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum, "Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama" and the James-Simon-Galerie. It can be booked at: https://shop.smb.museum/#/tickets/time?museum_id=76&group=day&date=2025-05-30.

There is also a special bonus for holders of an annual pass on the three opening days: whether Basic, Classic or Classic Plus - anyone with an annual pass can bring one other person into the museums free of charge. Tickets can be purchased in advance via the website or on site. As usual, children and young people under the age of 18 are admitted free of charge.

There will be a colourful stage programme in the Kolonnadenhof on the three days of the island festival. "We have a lot planned for this day! I am particularly looking forward to our Berlin cultural partners, whom we have invited. The Deutsches Theater, the Volksbühne, the Berliner Ensemble, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Komische Oper will be 'serenading' the Museum Island," says SPK President Hermann Parzinger.

Matthias Wemhoff, spokesman for the Museum Island: "The island deserves a five-year programme for its anniversary! And a three-day island festival - what a fantastic start! We are delighted to be able to offer not only a great programme, but also special admission prices. And then comes the island summer with last year's celebrated Kolonnadenbar, which this year invites you to enjoy the island for longer than ever before with a view of the Spree."

World Heritage Day on Sunday 1 June will be celebrated with a ceremony at 11:00 a.m., which will be opened by the new SPK President Marion Ackermann on her first day in office.

Over 60 free guided tours throughout the weekend will provide visitors with exciting insights into the history, architecture and unique collections of the Museum Island. There will also be surprise tours - you won't find out where you're actually going until the start. A wide variety of workshops and drop-in offers for all age groups in the museums, under the colonnades and in Haus Bastian complete the programme.

A new ZDF/arte documentary about the Museum Island will be presented as a world premiere and with audience screenings on Saturday and Sunday in the James-Simon-Galerie. The two-part documentary tells the story of the Museum Island and thus also 200 years of German history using nine top works.

In addition to the permanent exhibitions, visitors to the Museum Island can visit the following special exhibitions on the weekend of the Island Festival: The Angel of History. Walter Benjamin, Paul Klee and the Berlin Angels 80 Years after the End of the War (Bode Museum), On Untravelled Paths. Georg Schweinfurth and Egyptology (Neues Museum), Dioscuri - The Gift of a Day (Neues Museum), Threads of Life on the Nile - Tapestries from the Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Centre in Cairo (James Simon Gallery), Long Fingers - False Coins. The dark side of numismatics (Bode Museum).

200 years of Museum Island Berlin

Museum Island Berlin is an icon and a world star. To mark its anniversary, the unique museum quarter will be celebrated for five years - with exhibitions, events, open-air presentations, concerts and activities for everyone. The celebratory weekend from 30 May to 1 June 2025 will kick off the anniversary under the patronage of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner. It is supported by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin, the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Flix SE and visitBerlin.

Press photos at: www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/newsroom/presse/pressebilder/pressebilder-zur-museumsinsel-berlin.html

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