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.
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- Monday closed
- Tuesday-Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
In the museum, the permanent exhibition, the historical rooms on the ground floor with the surrender hall and the museum garden are open.
General distance and hygiene rules apply on the grounds.
Wearing a medical mask is compulsory on the entire grounds of the museum.
In the garden we are showing the exhibition "Springtime in Stalingrad". We have taken this over from our partner museum, the Panorama Museum "Battle of Stalingrad" from Volgograd.
The special exhibition "From Casablanca to Karlshorst" remains closed.
- 1. January 10:00 - 18:00
- 24. December closed
- 25. December closed
- 26. December regular
- 31. December closed
Zwieseler Straße 4, 10318 Berlin
+49 (30) 50 15 08-10
+49 (30) 50 15 08-40
Free entrance
Exhibitions
Events
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Secret Karlshorst. Searching for clues in the former Soviet restricted area
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
The museum at the historical place of the surrender on May 8, 1945 - past and present
Guided Tour
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
Soviet Prisoners of War. Return and memory
A lecture by Esther Meier (German Historical Institute Moscow)
Lecture, talk
Digital
Tickets
Free entrance
Booking Telephone
+49 (30) 50 15 08-41
Services
- Museum Shop
- Library
Audioguides
In German, English, French, Polish, Russisch, Ukrainisch.