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Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Kapitulationssaal
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Kapitulationssaal. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung
Foto: Thomas Bruns
Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Blick in die Dauerausstellung. Foto: Thomas Bruns
Eingang des Museums Berlin-Karlshorst
Foto: Pascal Prüeß, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

With the unconditional surrender in the great hall of the museum, a former officers' mess of the Wehrmacht Pioneer School, the Second World War in Europe ended on May 8, 1945. From 1945 to 1949, the building served as the headquarters of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany. In 1967, the Soviet surrender museum was opened here. After the agreements on the withdrawal of Soviet forces from Germany, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Union decided in 1990 to jointly build a museum on this site to commemorate the German Reich's war of extermination against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945. It was opened in 1995.

Since 2013, the permanent exhibition has documented the war from the perspective of the German and Soviet actors. The territories occupied by the Wehrmacht were not only the territory where the murder of European Jews began.German warfare and occupation rule also included other crimes such as the mass deaths of Soviet prisoners of war or the planned starvation of millions of civilians. The exhibition also deals with the consequences of the Second World War that reach into the present.

The museum also organizes special exhibitions, discussions, film series, scientific conferences and the annual May 8 events.

Opening hours,

  • Monday closed
  • Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
  • 1. January closed
  • 24. December closed

Location,

Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin

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Telephone,

+49 (30) 50 15 08-10

Fax,

+49 (30) 50 15 08-40

Website,

www.museum-karlshorst.de

Email,

[javascript protected email address]

Prices,

Free entrance

Exhibitions

View of the permanent exhibition "Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War 1941-1945".
Foto/Photo: Thomas Bruns, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Germany and the Soviet Union in the Second World War 1941-1945

A permanent exhibition about the war of extermination against the Soviet Union

Vizebsk on the day of liberation, Belarus, June 26, 1944
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Foto Michail Sawin

The last year of the war

June 1944-May 1945 from the perspective of Soviet war photographers

Ort der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, ehemaliges Offizierskasino der Pionierschule I, in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8. Mai 1945
© Foto Timofej Melnik, Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Ort der bedingungslosen Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, ehemaliges Offizierskasino der Pionierschule I, in Berlin-Karlshorst, 8. Mai 1945

The German Surrender in May 1945

Events

Blick in die Ausstellung des Museums Berlin-Karlshorst
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Foto: Harry Schnitger

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Public guided tour Museum Berlin-Karlshorst. Site of the capitulation in May 1945

Guided Tour

Ehemaliges Hauptgebäude des KGB, heute Wohngebäude, © Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Foto: Margot Blank
© Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, Foto: Margot Blank

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Public district tour "Secret Karlshorst. Searching for clues in the former Soviet restricted area"

Guided Tour

Digital

Tickets

Free entrance

Booking Telephone

+49 (30) 50 15 08-41

Services

  • Museum Shop
  • Library

Accessibility

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Audioguides

In German, English, French, Polish, Russisch, Ukrainisch.

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Stiftung Reinbeckhallen
© Stiftung Reinbeckhallen. Foto: Michel Koczy
Stiftung Reinbeckhallen

Exhibition house

Stiftung Reinbeckhallen

Collection for Contemporary Art

Besucher vor dem Industriesalon Schöneweide
Foto: Susanne Reumschüssel
Besucher vor dem Industriesalon Schöneweide

Museum of Technology

Industriesalon Schöneweide

Das Gelände des Dokumentationszentrums 2017
Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit / A. Schoelzel
Das Gelände des Dokumentationszentrums 2017. Foto: Andreas Schoelzel

Documentation Center

Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre

Topography of Terror Foundation

© SPB / Foto: Natalie Toczek
Das Treptower Riesenfernrohr in der Archenhold-Sternwarte der Stiftung Planetarium Berlin.

Planetarium

Archenhold-Sternwarte

Stiftung Planetarium Berlin

Gedenkstätte im ehemaligen Gefängnis in Köpenick
© Uwe Meinel

Memorial

The "Köpenicker Blutwoche" Memorial June 1933

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