Exhibitions

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

A CITY BECOMES COLOURFUL Hamburg Graffiti History 1980 – 1999

02.11. – 31.07.2023

At the beginning of the 1980s, Hamburg’s urban landscape gradually began to change. The instigators of this transformation were not urban planners, however, but graffiti artists: inspired by films like Wild Style and Beat Street, they moved around the city at night with spray cans and left behind colourful pictures,…

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Museum der Arbeit

THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING ABOUT GALAXIES, QUARKS AND COLLISIONS

23.11. – 10.04.2023

The exhibition at the Museum der Arbeit invites its visitors to a search for clues that leads back over 13 billion years to the origin of the universe. It addresses questions that have preoccupied people for centuries and lead us to the limits of our knowledge and imagination: What is…

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Altonaer Museum

Vistapoints POSTCARDS FROM KIRCHNER TO BEUYS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE ALTONAER MUSEUM

16.11. – 29.05.2023

In the last third of the 19th century, the postcard became the ideal means of communication for a globalising society with simplified information exchange. In the course of its history, it documented not only tourist highlights but also historical events, depicted personalities and works of art, and spread ideas of…

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Altonaer Museum

From here to there On the move with compass and navigation system

12.10. – 17.07.2023

When seafarers plot their course, an expedition route is planned on land or a child goes to school, the question is always: How do I get from here to there? This basic question was asked centuries ago, when familiar landmarks used to point the way back to the campfire. It…

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Jenisch Haus

Ciphers of a City. Photographs by Hans Meyer-Veden

20.05. – 13.02.2023

With interventions by Michael Meyborg, mpz film group, and TONAOn its way to the sea, the Elbe meets Hamburg, giving it its special character. Hans Meyer-Veden captured the city on the river in expressive photographs over more than three decades. A flaneur with a camera, on foot in the streets…

Museum of work

Permanent Exhibition At Museum of Work

The collection of the Museum der Arbeit deals with Hamburg’s industrial, technical and social history. Very large objects such as the TRUDE can be found there, as well as stamps that were used to sign off files in the Kontor in the past.

Altonaer Museum

Permanent exhibitions at altonaer museum

The collection of the Altonaer Museum contains graphics, paintings, textiles, toys as well as cultural-historical objects from the areas of arts and crafts, shipping, life and work in the countryside and in the city.

German Port museum

Permanent Exhibition At German Port Museum

You can literally walk around the permanent exhibition of the German Port Museum by strolling through the grounds. The exhibits inside the 50s shed are rather small compared to the floating exhibits or the cranes on the quay, but of course they are all equally important for learning about port…

Jenisch House

Permanent exhibitions At JENISCH HOUSE

The Jenisch House is the former country house of Hamburg Senator Martin Johann Jenisch (1793 – 1857). Built between 1831 and 1834 according to plans by Franz Gustav Forsmann and Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Jenisch House is a significant monument to neo-classical architecture. It is distinguished by its villa style…