Free Entry!
Most memorials and regional museums as well as some historical museums and collections are free to visit. Some museums offer free admission on special days or on certain occasions. If you want to know, which institutions provide free entry in general, browse the selection here.
Last updated: 17 january 2023
Admission Free on Special Days
Some Berlin museums offer free entry once a week or once a month:
- KW Institute for Contemporary Art: every Thursday, 6 to 9 p.m.
- Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart: every first Thursday of the month from 4 to 8 p.m. (as part of Volkswagen Art4All)
- Neue Nationalgalerie: every Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. (as part of Volkswagen Art4All)
Free admission on Museum Sunday
Museum Sunday grants free admission to over 60 Berlin museums on the first Sunday of each month. All participating houses, dates and further information can be found here.
Free admission for children and young people
Children have free admission to many of Berlin's museums. For children up to the age of six, the visit is free almost everywhere. Museums often offer family tickets as well. Young people under 18 can visit all Staatliche Museen, all Landesmuseen (Berlinische Galerie, Bröhan-Museum, Deutsches Technikmuseum and all houses of the Stadtmuseum) and the following museums for free:
- Akademie der Künste (at Pariser Platz and at Hanseatenweg)
- Bröhan-Museum
- Brücke-Museum
- C/O Berlin
- Deutsches Historisches Museum
- Deutsche Kinemathek
- Domäne Dahlem
- Georg Kolbe Museum
- Gropius Bau (up to 16 years)
- Haus am Waldsee
- Humboldt Forum
- Jewish Museum Berlin
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum
- KW Institute for Contemporary Art
- Kunsthaus Dahlem
- Museum Barberini
- Museum für Kommunikation Berlin
- Museum of Musical Instruments
- Liebermann-Villa at Wannsee
- Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank
- Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge