Ausstellungen

Altonaer Museum

World Press Photo 2024

18.09. – 14.10.2024

In 2024, the Altonaer Museum will once again host the presentation of the World Press Photo Award, with which the World Press Photo Foundation has honored the best international press photographs of the previous year every year since 1955.

Ein alter Mann und ein Mädchen stehen vor dem Spiegel und schließen jeweils Knöpfe an ihren Jacken. Beide sind gut angezogen mit einem Hut und einem Stirnband.

Museum der Arbeit

Precious III. Biennial of Applied Art by AdK and GEDOK

31.07. – 01.09.2024

More than 70 artists from the AdK and the GEDOK present around 200 exhibits at the Museum der Arbeit this summer, offering a comprehensive insight into the broad and diverse spectrum of contemporary arts and crafts.

Altonaer Museum

70 years of Pixi Books for children

07.02. – 18.08.2024

Who doesn’t know the little square Pixi books? The exhibition is dedicated to the famous books from the Carlsen publishing house in Altona!

Altonaer Museum

Lost Homes / To Forget Beautiful Things Intervention by Hila Laviv

28.02. – 22.07.2024

With the intervention of the Israeli artist Hila Laviv, history and the present are linked on two levels. In the work “Lost Homes / To forget beautiful things” she questions the themes of home and loss of home. Hila Laviv uses selected objects from the collection of the Altona Museum…

Altonaer Museum

Freedom of Faith In the history and presence of Hamburg

27.09.2023 – 15.07.2024

We have the freedom to believe what we want – or not to believe. Freedom of religion is a general human right and set in Germany’s Basic Law. In everyday life, this right is contested. Architecture, religious education in schools, funerals – the topics are manifold. With this exhibition we…

Deutsches Hafenmuseum

Inside Docks A workshop presentation

24.03. – 27.05.2024

Docks are workshops for ships. This is where they are built, repaired and maintained. In a workshop exhibition, we provide insights into our collection and the digitized holdings of other museums and archives. The impetus and preparatory work for this came from volunteers at the German Port Museum.

Die Elbe im Vordergrund, im Hintergrund zwei große Docks einer Werft, zahlreiche Krane sind an der Elbe zu sehen.

Altonaer Museum

Breaking Discrimination With Pictures

08.03. – 20.05.2024

To mark the International Weeks against Racism, the exhibition shows a selection of photographs created by young Muslims from Hamburg. In workshops held in various communities since 2022, they have creatively and visually explored different forms of discrimination and racism.

Museum der Arbeit

Man & Mining

17.11.2023 – 01.05.2024

In the exhibition “Man & Mining”, the thematic focus of the artistic positions is on current resource extraction and the people working in mining, especially in the Global South. Whether mining ore and coal, gold, silver, manganese or rare earths, which are central to electro-mobility and electronic products such as…

Viele Männer graben mit Spaten ein immer tieferes Loch in gelben Sand. Das Loch ist so tief, dass man das Ende nicht erkennen kann.

Jenisch Haus

TOWARDS THE ELBE NEW WORKS BY TOBIAS DUWE, LARS MÖLLER, TILL WARWAS

02.04.2023 – 11.02.2024

For the joint exhibition „Elbwärts“ (Towards the Elbe), Duwe, Möller and Warwas have approached numerous well-known motifs along the river, but also striking places in the Hamburg cityscape, which they have captured with a fresh eye, artistically documenting the changes in the city and nature. The exhibition in the Jenisch…

Speicherstadtmuseum

Warehouse District's City Hall Historic photos

16.09.2023 – 07.01.2024

In a special exhibition, the Warehouse District Museum presents photos by Manfred Stempels portraying the Speicherstadt City Hall – as the historic administrative building of HHLA Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG is traditionally called.

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

A CITY BECOMES COLOURFUL Hamburg Graffiti History 1980 – 1999

01.11.2022 – 07.01.2024

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,…

Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte

Hamburg 1923 A city under threat

20.09.2023 – 07.01.2024

In many respects, the year 1923 has a drastic significance in Hamburg’s history. The Weimar Republic was only a few years old and was being challenged and fought by both right-wing and left-wing opponents. Domestic political disputes as well as the occupation of the Ruhr by France and Belgium threatened…

Online Banner der Ausstellung Hamburg 1923. Die bedrohte Stadt

Altonaer Museum

Caricatures on Integration & Assimilation

18.10. – 04.12.2023

The exhibition presents the competition results of the satirical magazine Don Quixote entitled “Turkey on the Way to the EU- Migration from Turkey- Integration & Assimilation- 60 Years Together”. The resulting multi-faceted collection of caricatures from around the world offers diverse, humorous and at the same time reflective insights into…

Deutsches Hafenmuseum

Shipyards and Labor Dispute in the 1990s Photo presentation

03.10. – 31.10.2023

Hamburg-based photographer Kurt W. Hamann documented labor struggles at shipyards in East and West Germany in the 1990s.

Werftarbeiter der Elbewerft demonstrieren 1991 gegen eine drohende Schließung mit Bannern.

Altonaer Museum

World Press Photo 2023 at Altonaer Museum

13.09. – 09.10.2023

For the second time, the Altonaer Museum is showing the results of the World Press Photo Award, which has been awarded to the best international press photographs of the previous year since 1955. The themes of the largest and most renowned competition of this kind range from the documentation of…

Eine junge Frau mit dunklen Haaren und hellbraunem Mantel sitzt an einem gelben Plastiktisch und schaut ernst in die Kamera. Im Hintergrund sieht man viele Personen, die ihr den Rücken zudrehen und in eine Richtung gehen. Die meisten von ihnen tragen lange schwarze Gewänder und Kopftücher.

Museum der Arbeit

Eyes on Hamburg The Georg Koppmann Prize for Hamburg City Photography 2019-2023

09.06. – 03.10.2023

In the exhibition, which is being shown as part of this year’s Hamburg Architecture Summer, the works of the first five award-winning projects of the Georg Koppmann Prize for Hamburg City Photography from the years 2019 to 2023 will be on display.

Ein umgekippter E-Roller liegt auf dem Bürgersteig im pinken Schaufensterlich einer Spielhalle.

Altonaer Museum

GEOGRAPHICAL POST/COLONIAL - HOW THE WORLD IS CREATEd FROM MAPS AND PICTURES. A PRESENTATION AT THE DOCK IN THE HALL OF COLUMNS

19.04. – 24.07.2023

The exhibition “geographically post/colonial. How the world emerges from maps and images” invites you to creatively and interactively recognize colonial continuities in images and maps and to identify resistant breaks.

Verschiedene Karten hängen an einem Gestell von der Decke Teilweise sind es Fotos von Menschen oder Orten. Teilweise stehen auf den Karten Fragen wie "Wer entscheidet, welche Fotos in Schulbücher kommen?"

Altonaer Museum

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

11.10.2022 – 16.07.2023

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…

Altonaer Museum

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

15.11.2022 – 28.05.2023

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…

Museum der Arbeit

THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING ABOUT GALAXIES, QUARKS AND COLLISIONS

22.11.2022 – 07.05.2023

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…

Millerntorwache

Motherland Photos by Tatsiana Tkachova

12.04. – 23.04.2023

In the photo series “Motherland”, the photographer Tatsiana Tkachova immerses herself in the microcosm of her own family in Belarus.

Jenisch Haus

Ciphers of a City. Photographs by Hans Meyer-Veden

19.05.2022 – 12.02.2023

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…