City history

19 Articles on the topic City history

Yangkun Shi & Charlotte Ming: Currents

Yangkun Shi & Charlotte Ming: Currents | Dekoloniale Residents 2024

Short-Story, 4 min Lesezeit

The Berlinale in pictures

Stars, stars, stars: A photographic journey of discovery through the first decades of the Berlin Film Festival with pictures from the collection of the Stadtmuseum Berlin.

Short-Story, 1 min Lesezeit

Conversations Behind Lace Curtains

On the Open Space, three Polish artists reflect on the special relationship between Poles and Berlin under the title "Freedom, Equality, Solidarność".

Article, 5 min Lesezeit

Punk in the Church. East Berlin 1979-89

An exhibition area in the 'Freiraum' room at BERLIN GLOBAL gives a voice to the punk scene in the former GDR.

Article, 6 min Lesezeit

Anet-Commode

The Anet chest of drawers is part of the Stadtmuseum Berlin’s “Reichsbank furniture” collection. But how did this piece of French furniture end up at the Märkisches Museum, which specialises in the history of Berlin and Brandenburg? In this essay, we will provide insight into ongoing provenance research.

Article, 11 min Lesezeit

The horse’s head on the Quadriga

This horse’s head is all that remains of the original Quadriga, the sculpture that sits atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. But why did sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764-1850) design the Quadriga in the first place? And what role did Napoleon play in it?

Article, 15 min Lesezeit

The Märkisches Museum’s “Special Silver Inventory”

Nearly five hundred silver pieces, including spoons, charm bracelets, children’s rattles and other objects, are stored in a metal cabinet in the Stadtmuseum Berlin’s collection depot. The objects originate from compulsory levies placed on Jewish people from 1939 onwards, and provide insight into a project that the Stadtmuseum Berlin has been carrying out since 1996 to clarify the provenance of each individual object.

Article, 9 min Lesezeit