Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection
From 8 May 2026 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection
8 May 2026 to 31 October 2027
Press material about the exhibition
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Invitation to the Press Tour
Wednesday, 6 May 2026 at 11 am
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Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection
New exhibition from 8 May 2026 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hounskull, Northern Italy, ca. 1360, Iron, brass
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Board game box for nine men’s morris, chess, and tric trac, formerly in possession of Anne of Denmark, dated “5. Aprilis 1607”, amber, ivory, metal foil, ebony, silver
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan Hyugen van Linschoten’s Itinerario, Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620, Ostrich egg, notched, engraved, blackened
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Journeymen of the Association of Upright Foreign and Domestic Journeymen Carpenters and Slaters and construction workers on the roof truss of a building, unknown studio, dated “October 1926”, baryta paper, black-and-white print
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Transverse cutting head (shearer head) for a roadheader, Voestalpine AG, Austria, 2003/2016, Steel, cast and bolted
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Bunk bed for refugees and two privacy boxes, Two wooden Ikea beds, model Fjellse, Kassel, 2015, Pinewood, inscribed, painted
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Exhibition of new acquisitions from 1910/11 in the Zeughaus on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s birthday, August Scherl Illustrations-Centrale G.m.b.H., Berlin, 1912 © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hermann Joseph Wilhelm Knackfuß: Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau at the Battle of Turin on 7 September 1706, 1884, Oil on canvas © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Dressing gown of Queen Luise of Prussia, Germany or France, 1806–1810, Silk, taffeta, trimmings, metal, wool © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
First printing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in German, Authors: Thomas Jefferson et al., Translator: Charles Cist, Philadelphia, 6.–8.7.1776, Paper © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Exhibition poster “Karl Marx” in the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, East Berlin, 1953
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
The Communist Manifesto in the first special exhibition “Karl Marx” at the Museum für Deutsche Geschichte, East Berlin, 1955
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Exhibition poster “40 Years GDR”, Printer: Neues Deutschland, East Berlin 1989
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Table decoration for International Labour Day on 1 May, Portugal, Mai 1981, Brass, cast, embossed © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Table decoration with part of an American airplane wreck based on a photo from the Vietnam War, Vietnam, 1967–1975, Wood, aluminium, engraved
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Longitudinal section of the unrealised design for the DHM in the Spreebogen, Draft: Aldo Rossi, 1987, in: Aldo Rossi. Deutsches Historisches Museum 1989, Berlin 1989
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Matthias Koeppel: … and everything will be good again. 3 October 90 in front of the Neue Wache, Berlin, 1991, Canvas, oil paints
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
Hexagonal chest with a model of the German Stadium, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Gustav Baumann, Berlin/Potsdam, 1912 (model), 1923/24 (chest), Marquetry hardwoods
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hexagonal chest with a model of the German Stadium, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Gustav Baumann, Berlin/Potsdam, 1912 (model), 1923/24 (chest), Marquetry hardwoods © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Hexagonal chest with a model of the German Stadium, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Gustav Baumann, Berlin/Potsdam, 1912 (model), 1923/24 (chest), Marquetry hardwoods © Deutsches Historisches Museum
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Title page of the travelogue of the Dutch seafarer Jan Huygen van Linschoten’s voyage to India, First edition in Latin (Itinerario), The Hague, 1599
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Two former boundary stones of the border, Neustraße/Nieuwstraat, Herzogenrath (D)/Kerkrade (NL), 1968/1993, Precast concrete
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Woman dressed in a journeyman’s uniform with a travel bundle, Cologne, dated “Carnival 1929”, silver gelatine print
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view "Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collection"
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, photo: David von Becker
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