Free admission for young people
Berlin is an ideal city for young museum visitors. All federal state museums, as well as the National Museums in Berlin and the Academy of Arts, offer free admission to young people up to the age of 18. The German Historical Museum only charge for admission from the age of 18, while the Martin-Gropius-Bau, with its big special exhibitions, only charge from the age of 17. At all other Berlin museums schoolchildren, students and trainees receive a discount. Don’t forget to take your student ID with you!
Click here to find out which museums and memorial sites generally offer free admission.
If you are 18 years of age or less, you have free admission to the following museums:
- Academy of Arts (at Pariser Platz and Hanseatenweg)
- Altes Museum with its Collection of Classical Antiquities
- Archenhold Observatory (only after 3.00 pm)
- Art Library (exhibitions)
- Berlinische Galerie
- Bode-Museum with the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art and the Numismatic Collection
- Brücke-Museum
- Collection Scharf-Gerstenberg
- Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Technology Museum) including the Science Center Spectrum (only after 3.00 pm)
- Düppel Museum Village – Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Ephraim Palais - Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Ethnological Museum
- Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings)
- Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin *
- Köpenick Palace
- Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank
- Märkisches Museum - Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Museum Berggruen
- Museum of Asian Art
- Museum of Decorative Arts
- Museum of Musical Instruments
- Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation
- Museum of Prints and Drawings
- Neues Museum with the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and the Museum of Prehistory and Early History
- New National Gallery *
- Nikolai Church - Stadtmuseum Berlin
- Old National Gallery *
- Pergamon Museum with its Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of the Ancient Near East and Museum of Islamic Art
* With some special exhibitions at these museums, free admission does not apply.
If you are 17 years of age or less, you also have free admission to the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) and the Broehan Museum. And if you are 16 years of age or less, you also have free admission to the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
