{#100museums} No.2 – Family Sunday at Berlin’s Technikmuseum
Yesterday was a ‘doors open day’ at many museums and other public institutions across Berlin. It was the city’s way of saying thank you to its citizens for welcoming in and helping all the refugees...
View Article{Germany} Birth & Baby Welcome Rituals Around the World
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.15 In the January edition of ‘Berlin Museums for Kids‘, I mentioned the new exhibition ‘Geboren und Willkommen‘ that opened at the MACHmit Museum for Children. A couple...
View Article{Germany} Early Easter Fun at Märkisches Museum
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.16 Last weekend, #MuseumBoy and I headed to the Märkisches Museum here in Berlin for their latest Family Day. With Easter on the horizon, the theme this time round was...
View Article{Germany} Batterien für die Wehrmacht
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.17 Last Friday, I headed out to the Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit – the last well-preserved former Nazi forced labour camp in Germany – for a Museum Tweetup, or...
View Article{Germany} Spring Festival at Domäne Dahlem
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.18 If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you will already have seen glimpses of our Easter holiday in Gothenburg, which included quite a few museums. I’ve been...
View Article{Germany} Cheeky, wild & wonderful!
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.41 When I was growing up, my favourite children’s books author was Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. I literally had *all* her books. While some of her books seem more...
View Article{Germany} Stephen Shore at C/O Berlin
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.42 A couple of weeks ago, I attended a meeting of the Museum Think Tank Berlin at C/O Berlin, and we were given the opportunity to look around the current exhibitions...
View Article{Germany} T.rex versus Spinosaurus
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.43 There’s not much to be said about Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde that I haven’t said already, but I wanted to share some pics from our latest visit to the much loved...
View Article{Germany} Babies in Museums at the Ephraim Palais
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.70 You may recall, a couple of weeks ago I wrote about the pilot project Elternzeit Kultur at the Ephraim Palais, which the Stadtmuseum Berlin and I had initiated...
View Article{Germany} A State Visit at Schönhausen Palace
100 Museums Challenge: Museums No.71 Last Friday, I was invited to take part in a Tweetup at Schönhausen Palace in Berlin Pankow, to view the current special exhibition ‘Palaces for the State Visitor:...
View Article{Germany} Crafty fun at the Bauhaus_lab
100 Museums Challenge: Museums No.72 For months now, I’ve been featuring the Saturday drop-in ‘Bauhaus_lab‘ craft workshops at Berlin’s Bauhaus Archiv in my listings of museum highlights for kids and...
View Article{Germany} #emptykunstgewerbemuseum
100 Museums Challenge: Museums No.73 Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to join an #instawalk around the #emptykunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin, after having won a spot for it through an Instagram...
View Article{Germany} Between the Lines at JMBerlin
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.82 Last week, I was invited to take part in an ’empty walk’ instameet around the Jewish Museum Berlin after hours. For those not familiar with the concept, an instameet...
View ArticleGuest Post: Reflections on ‘Elternzeit Kultur’
Museum Diary is back from its summer break! And ready to jump right back in to things. If you’ve been following the blog for a while, you may remember my post about the ‘babies in museums’ initiative I...
View Article{Germany} Erwin Wurm. Bei Mutti
100 Museums Challenge: Museum No.93 I don’t often write about exhibitions just as they are about to close, but today we FINALLY managed to make it to the much lauded Erwin Wurm exhibition at the...
View ArticleMy Tips for Lange Nacht der Museen 2016
It’s that time of year again, and this time it’s kind of crept up on me – tomorrow is Berlin’s annual Lange Nacht der Museen, or Long Night of Museums, in its 36th edition. 77 museums are taking part,...
View ArticleLentil Baths, Water Rockets & Super Heroes – Our Lange Nacht der Museen 2016...
100 Museums Challenge: Museums No.15 (revisited), 94 & 95 So, it’s taken me a while to download and edit my photos, but I still need to tell you about Berlin’s ‘Lange Nacht der Museen’ (Long Night...
View Article{Germany} Medieval Festival at Domäne Dahlem
Last weekend we visited the Medieval Festival at Berlin’s Domäne Dahlem – after making some quick Knights’ costumes so the boys could dress for the occasion (Edit: You can now find a tutorial for the...
View Article{Germany} The Golem is coming!
Today, a new temporary exhibition opens at the Jewish Museum Berlin: Golem. I was privileged enough to be invited to a special preview for social media influencers two nights before, and was...
View Article{Germany} Potato Festival at Domäne Dahlem
I’ve mentioned the Domäne Dahlem – an agricultural museum and working form in the South of Berlin – before. Since our move, it’s just an easy door-to-door subway ride away, so we have become more...
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