What is Enlightenment? Questions for the 18th Century
From 18 october 2024 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
18 October 2024 to 6 April 2025
From 18 october 2024 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
0n Wednesday, 16 October 2024 at 11 am
From 18 October 2024 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki, Allegorical print on the Age of Enlightenment, Göttingen, 1791
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Title page of Immanuel Kant’s essay “Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Berlin, 1784
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Title page of Immanuel Kant’s essay “Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, in: Berlinische Monatsschrift, Berlin, 1784
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
George Adams, Silver microscope for King George III, London, before 1763
© History of Science Museum, University of Oxford
Model of a human eye in a cup, Nuremberg, ca. 1700
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Model of a human eye in a cup, Nuremberg, ca. 1700
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Robe à la française with balloon motifs, probably France, ca. 1783
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
“Large-plate electrostatic generator” belonging to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
© Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Museen
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1594–1596), Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620
© Deutsches Historisches Museum Acquired with the generous support of the Museum Association of the Deutsches Historisches
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1594–1596), Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620
© Deutsches Historisches Museum Acquired with the generous support of the Museum Association of the Deutsches Historisches
Engraved ostrich egg with motifs from Jan van Linschoten’s Itinerario (1594–1596), Netherlands, ca. 1600/1620
© Deutsches Historisches Museum Acquired with the generous support of the Museum Association of the Deutsches Historisches
Johann Friedrich Walter, Map and veduta of the residence city of Berlin with the extensions of the early 18th century, Berlin, 1737
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Matthäus Seutter, Lisbon before and after the earthquake of 1 November 1755, Augsburg, 1755–1777
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn, after Anton Graff, after 1771
© Moses Mendelssohn Stiftung, Berlin
Martin Engelbrecht, Paper theatre scene “Freemason Gathering” (6-part), Augsburg, ca. 1730
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Augustin Legrand, Jean-Jacques Rousseau or the Man of Nature, Paris, 1795
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Georg Melchior Kraus, Torn Between Science and Marriage, Mainz, ca. 1770-1776
© Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
Anna Dorothea Therbusch, Family Portrait in the Outdoors, Berlin, ca. 1770
© Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin
Germination of the Nasturtium, in: The Metamorphosis of Plants by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1798
© Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Friedrich Wilhelm Springer, Miniature portrait of Immanuel Kant, Königsberg, 1795
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Johann Gottfried Haid after Johann Nepomuk Steiner, Angelo Soliman, Vienna, ca. 1760/65
© Wien Museum, Inv.-Nr. 215962, CC0 (https://sammlung.wienmuseum.at/objekt/374835/)
The human rights in pocket size from the possessions of the mayor of Lyon, Louis Vitet, Paris, probably September 1791
© Archives Municipales, Lyon
Toussaint Louverture, Leader of the Black Insurgents in Saint-Domingue, Paris, 1796–1799
© Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
First printing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America from 4 July 1776, printed in German by Steiner and Cist, Philadelphia, 8 July 1776
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Picture Book for Children, Vol. 4/5, Weimar, 1802–1805
© Deutsches Historisches Museum
William Hackwood, Wedgwood Slave Emancipation Society medallion showing a kneeling slave and the words “Am I Not a Man and a Brother?”, England, ca. 1787/1790
© London, National Maritime Museum, Royal Museums Greenwich
Léonard Defrance de Liège, À l’Égide de Minerve, Liège, 1781
© Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century
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Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Exhibition overview “What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century”
© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Photo: Stefanie Loos
From 18 october 2024 in the Deutsches Historisches Museum
0n Wednesday, 16 October 2024 at 11 am
Outreach-Workshop with the youth panel Shadow Museum
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with the youth panel Shadow Museum
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with the youth panel Shadow Museum
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with the youth panel Shadow Museum
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Outreach-Workshop with the education centre Lohana Berkins, Berlin-Lichtenberg / Kreuzberg / Neukölln
© DHM, Foto: Sandra Kühnapfel
Exhibition view Outreach-Project, Shadow Museum
© DHM, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view Outreach-Project, Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Photo: David von Becker
Exhibition view Outreach-Project, Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus
© DHM, Photo: David von Becker
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