--- title: "Museum Knoblauchhaus" date: 2022-11-08 last_modified: 2026-04-08T14:47:02+02:00 generated_at: 2026-05-14T07:50:19Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/museum/museum-knoblauchhaus" description: "Everyday Life in Biedermeier Berlin" image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/museum-knoblauchhaus-bei-nacht.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # Museum Knoblauchhaus ![Das Museum Knoblauchhaus bei Nacht.](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/museum-knoblauchhaus-bei-nacht-300x200.jpg) The Knoblauchhaus Museum takes you on a journey back in time to the Biedermeier era. © Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Michael Setzpfandt ![Originalgetreu eingerichtete Räume zeigen, wie die Berliner Kaufmannsfamilie Knoblauch vor rund zweihundert Jahren lebte.](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/fuehrung-berliner-leben-im-biedermeier-300x207.jpg) Rooms furnished as they were once show of how the Knoblauch merchant family lived in Berlin around two hundred years ago. © Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Constanze Schröder - The Museum Knoblauchhaus invites you to experience a slice of life in Biedermeier Berlin. Carefully recreated living spaces offer insight into the everyday life of the Knoblauch family, who lived and ran their business here 200 years ago. **Location** Museum Knoblauchhaus Poststraße 23 10178 Berlin **Opening Hours** Tue – Sun | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (also on public holidays) Mon closed **Additional Opening Hours** see Info & Service **Admission** 7 euros (single ticket) | 15 euros (combi-ticket\*) | free admission (under 18 years or with reduction) \*Valid on two consecutive days for the Museum Ephraim-Palais, the Museum Nikolaikirche and the Museum Knoblauchhaus. From 3 October 2025 to 12 July 2026, the Humboldt Forum Ticket is also valid at the Museum Knoblauchhaus (see ‘Tickets’). The new exhibition area “Berliner Salon” introduces you to friends of the Knoblauch family, including famous personalities such as architect [Karl Friedrich Schinkel](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/karl-friedrich-schinkel) and scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. ![Bibliothek im Museum Knoblauchhaus, zu sehen sind Einrichtungsgegenstände wie Sessel, Tisch, Uhr, Büsten und Vorhängen](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Bibliothek-Knoblauchhaus-©-Stadtmuseum-Berlin_Foto-Michael-Setzpfandt-23-300x200.jpg) Education had a high value in the bourgeoisie of the Biedermeier era. This is also shown by the library, which is modeled on the style of the time with historical furnishings. © Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Michael Setzpfandt The recreated living spaces are furnished in the Biedermeier style and offer a glimpse into how the upper middle class of Berlin lived in the period between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the Revolutions of 1848. The Knoblauchhaus has been open to the public as a museum since 1989. A small special area within the permanent exhibition invites visitors to exchange ideas and participate. This deliberate break in the exhibition offers an open space for the discussion of current topics and new perspectives. Initiatives, associations, school classes and other cooperation partners contribute their views and questions here - making the museum a lively place for dialogue. ## The Raphael Cabinet Two hundred years ago, Italian Renaissance artist Raffaelo Sanzio de Urbino, or Raphael for short (1483 - 1520), was already widely regarded as a genius of painting and reproductions of his works enjoyed widespread popularity. In-depth research has shown that Carl Knoblauch built a Raphael cabinet in his home in 1835 and furnished its walls with copper engravings by the famous painter and architect. This room has now been faithfully restored to its original state. ![Eine historische Aufnahme des Raffael-Kabinetts aus dem Jahr 1895](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/knoblauchhaus-raffael-kabinett-1895-300x208.jpg) ![Innenansicht des Museum Knoblauchhaus](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/museum-knoblauchhaus-raffael-kabinett-300x199.jpg) ## Exhibitions - [ ![Familienportrait, sitzender Vater abgewandt, stehende Frau in die Kamera blickend, vier Kinder teilweise unscharf](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/web-02_CLUSTER_BG_pos02a_XI-9500-300x272.jpg) Special Exhibition ### Family Matters Father, mother, child? Surprising perspectives on the traditional family model in the past and present. 10/03/2025 – 07/12/2026 Museum Knoblauchhaus ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/family-matters) - [ ![Die Familie Hauschild in ihrem Wohnzimmer](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/eduard-gaertner-wohnzimmer-der-familie-hauschild-300x178.jpg) Permanent Exhibition ### Everyday Life in Biedermeier Berlin Humboldt, Schinkel and the Knoblauch family Museum Knoblauchhaus ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/berliner-leben-im-biedermeier) ## 3-D tour ![Savoir-vivre im Nikolaiviertel: Das Museum Nikolaikirche ist umgeben von Cafés, Restaurants und liebevoll geführten Geschenkläden. ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_57121-300x200.jpg) Savoir-vivre im Nikolaiviertel: Das Museum Nikolaikirche ist umgeben von Cafés, Restaurants und liebevoll geführten Geschenkläden. © Stadtmuseum Berlin | Foto: Fiona Hirschmann ### Discover the Nikolaiviertel! Welcome to the oldest part of the city of Berlin! Three museums invite you to discover here: the Museum Nikolaikirche, the Museum Knoblauchhaus and the Museum Ephraim-Palais. Learn about Berlin’s history in our historic and partly original buildings and take part in our diverse program. [ Discover now!](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/nikolaiviertel) ## Info & Service ##### Opening Hours Tue – Sun | 10 am – 6 pm (also on public holidays) Mon closed **Differing opening hours:** Wed | 20.05. | 10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (Staff meeting) Mon | 25.05. | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Whit Monday) Sun | 21 .06.2026 | 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Museum Festival / Fête de la Musique) Sat | 29.08. | 10 a.m. – 2 a.m. (Long Night of Museums) Thu | 24.12. | Closed (Christmas Eve) Fri & Sat | 25. + 26.12. | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (First & Second Christmas Day) Thu | 31.12. | Closed (New Year’s Eve) Fri | 01.01. 2027 | 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. (New Year’s Day) The [visitor rules](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/besuchsordnung-stadtmuseum-berln.pdf) of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply. ##### Directions Poststraße 23 10178 Berlin [ Google Maps](https://g.page/Knoblauchhaus?share) [ Bus & Train](https://www.bvg.de/en/connections/connection-search) ##### Contact Infoline +49 30 24 002-162 Mo – Fri | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. [Write E-Mail](mailto:info@stadtmuseum.de) ##### Accessibility not barrier-free ## Tickets ##### Admission **Combi-Ticket** 15 euros Valid for our three museums in the Nikolaiviertel (Museum Nikolaikirche, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Museum Knoblauchhaus) on two consecutive days (please note opening hours) **Single Ticket** 7 euros Day ticket for the Museum Knoblauchhaus **Free admission With proof of reduction** for children and adolescents under 18 years of age, students, trainees, FSJ/FÖJ/BFD volunteers, Berlin Ticket S holders, severely disabled persons (at least 50% GdB) and their Personal Assistant, refugees (with a valid work or residence permit/eAT and a Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of transfer payments (Bürgergeld, ALG I), holders of the Berlin-Brandenburg Ehrenamtskarte, holders of the Super-Ferienpass / Berliner Familienpass, ICOM members, members of Deutscher Museumsbund, Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Stadtmuseums Berlin e. V. (except for the Museumsdorf Düppel), Förderverein Museumsdorf Düppel e. V., and Förderkreis Museum Knoblauchhaus e. V., media representatives with a valid press card. **Humboldt Forum Ticket** 15 euros | 7 euros (with proof of reduction) From 3 October 2025 to 12 July 2026, the Humboldt Forum ticket will also be valid at the Knoblauchhaus Museum. It can be purchased at the Humboldt Forum ticket office on site or online at the [Humboldt Forum ticket shop](https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/visit/admission-and-tickets/). ## Accessibility ### Directions **Public transport** Bus: 200 “Rotes Rathaus” (distance to the museum approx. 400 m). S-Bahn: S3, S5, S7, S9 Alexanderplatz (distance to the museum approx. 750 m) Underground: U2 “Klosterstraße” (distance to the museum approx. 650 m), U5 “Rotes Rathaus” (distance to the museum approx. 450 m) Tram: M4, M5 and M6 “Spandauer Straße / Marienkirche” (distance to the museum approx. 650 m) The Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg offers free VBB Bus & Bahn escort service to help you get to the museum by public transport. **Parking** There are two public parking spaces for people with disabilities in Rathausstraße (distance to the museum approx. 150 m). **On foot** The path to the museum is not easy to walk or drive on in places. ### Building The museum is only accessible via three steps (without handrail). The entrance is visually contrasting. The entrance door is a double-leaf door without automatic (threshold 4 cm high), museum staff:inside are available for assistance. Assistance dogs are welcome in all areas. The exhibition rooms are accessible only by stairs (19 steps to the 1st floor, another 20 steps to the 2nd floor). All doors and passageways are at least 78 cm wide (door thresholds up to 5 cm high). The toilet is not barrier-free (door width 53 cm). The rooms and exhibits are predominantly brightly lit and glare-free. Information about the exhibition and the objects is mainly visible while sitting down, the signage is visually high-contrast, but the lettering is sometimes very small. Information on the exhibition objects is conveyed in writing and acoustically. Occasional seating is available in the exhibition. ### Offerings Audio stations are available in the exhibition. Additional audio content can be accessed via QR codes in the exhibition. An audio guide (with headphone connection) in German, English, Spanish, Turkish and for families (in German) can be borrowed free of charge from our staff in the entrance area. ### Certification The Museum Knoblauchhaus has been assessed by “Reisen für Alle” (Travelling for All) in 2022 and awarded the “Accessibility Tested” certificate. The certification is valid until 2025. For detailed information, see: [www.reisen-fuer-alle.de](https://www.reisen-fuer-alle.de/museum_knoblauchhaus_249.html?action=detail&item_id=3439)