Supplementary Programme

This international conference includes many special events. We warmly invite you to participate in these activities. Because space is limited, please let us know of your interest as soon as possible by clicking here. The following events are free of charge and open to all registered participants:

Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Tours of the Museum Island (Museumsinsel)

The Berlin Museumsinsel became a World Heritage Site in 1999. Managed by the SPK (Foundation Prussian Heritage), the Island's five historical buildings house archaeological and art collections from the nineteenth century. The Island's first structure was the Altes Museum, built to the designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The Altes Museum opened to the public - the first museum to do so in Prussia - in 1830. The Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum, and the Pergamnonmuseum followed. A 1999 master development plan called for the restructuring of the museums and the collections divided during the Cold War.

You are invited to choose among the following tours:

Tour of the Island and Visit to the Alte Nationalgalerie

Built to designs realized by August Stüler from 1866 to 1876, the Alte Nationalgalerie is considered one of the most important example of nineteenth-century museum architecture. The museum houses nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures, including works by Casper David Friedrich, Adolph Menzel, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne and Claude Monet. (Meeting Point: Foyer Alte Nationalgalerie)

Tour of the Island and Visit to the Altes Museum (Including the Egypt Museum and Papyrus Collection)

With a lucidly ordered exterior and an interior structure of great precision, the Altes Museum counts among the most important architectural examples of Classicism. The Egyptian Collection is located on the upper floor. Here you will find an important collection of Egyptian high culture, including the world famous bust of Queen Nefertiti. (Meeting Point: First floor cash-desk)

Tour of the Island and Visit to the Pergamonmuseum

Built between 1910 and 1930, the Pergamon Museum accommodates three separate museums: the Collection of Classical Antiquities, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Museum of the Ancient Near East. The monumental reconstruction of the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate (including the Processional Way of Babylon and the Mschatta Façade) has made the museum famous. (Meeting Point: Information, Pergamonmuseum)

Tour of the Island and Visit to the Bode-Museum

After extensive reconstruction the Bode-Museum reopened in October 2006. The Bode-Museum houses the Sculpture Collection, the Museum for Byzantine Art, works from the Gemäldegalerie and the Numismatic Collection with a half million objects (from the origins of minting in seventh century B.C.E. to the present). (Meeting Point: Foyer "Meeting Point")

Tuesday, 20 February 2007, 6 p.m.

Reception at the Pergamonmuseum

Hosted by the BKM (Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin).

Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Tour of the Gemäldegalerie - Old Master Paintings, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the New National Gallery and the Special Exhibit Space at the Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz

A few steps from our conference location, important collections of European art are on display at the Kulturforum, home to the Gemäldegalerie - Old Master Paintings, the Art Library, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the Kupferstichkabinett - Museum of Prints and Drawings, and the New National Gallery.

Please choose among the following tours:

Gemäldegalerie - Old Master Paintings, Permanent Exhibition

The Gemäldegalerie - Old Master Paintings boasts one of the most important collections of European paintings from the 13th to 18th centuries. Masterpieces from all art historical eras, including paintings from Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel, Albrecht Dürer, Raffael, Tizian, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Jan Vermeer are part of this exhibition. (Meeting Point: Information, Kulturforum)

Museum of Decorative Arts, Permanent Exhibition

The Museum of Decorative Arts is the oldest of its kind in Germany. The museum holds important collections of European arts and crafts from the Middle Ages to the present. (Meeting Point: Information, Kulturforum)

New National Gallery, Permanent Exhibition

Designed by Mies van der Rohe, the New National Gallery houses European art and sculpture of the 20th century. The collection extends from Classical Modernism to art of the 1960s. Here you will find works by artists Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix and Oskar Kokoschka. (Meeting Point: Foyer upstairs, cash desk)

Special Exhibition at the Art Library, "COATS! Max Mara, 55 Years of Fashion Design from Italy"

Produced in cooperation with the Max Mara Fashion Group, this special exhibition of the Art Library showcases the history of this internationally famous fashion design house. The exhibit features unpublished material from the firm's corporate archives. Founded in 1951 by Achille Maramotti in the small northern Italian town of Reggio Emilia, Max Mara has established a reputation as a fashion house with the highest standards of quality and design. (Meeting Point: Information, Kulturforum)

Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 8:30 p.m.

Supper and "Live Music" at "Kalkscheune"

Transfer from Kulturforum to Kalkscheune at 8 p.m.