Exhibitions

The permanent exhibition

Until 31 Oct 24

The permanent exhibition focuses on its two defining media – film and television – from their origins to the present.

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Television media library

Until 31 Oct 24

Roughly 13,000 selected television broadcasts in their full length

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Past exhibitions

Fokus Fernsehen Thomas Schadt

3.11.23 – 5.5.24
›Berlin – Sinfonie einer Grossstadt‹, D 2002, D: Thomas Schadt
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Berlin Symphonies

3.11.23 – 31.10.24
© Hans-Georg Merkel/Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte

The German Cinema – 1895 to the Present Day

15.10.23 – 15.9.24
ArchiVistas – Past Traces and Future Perspectives

4.10.23 – 5.5.24

Fokus Fernsehen Thomas Schadt

3.11.23 – 5.5.24
›Berlin – Sinfonie einer Grossstadt‹, D 2002, D: Thomas Schadt
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

Berlin Symphonies

3.11.23 – 31.10.24
© Hans-Georg Merkel/Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte

The German Cinema – 1895 to the Present Day

15.10.23 – 15.9.24
ArchiVistas – Past Traces and Future Perspectives

4.10.23 – 5.5.24
Roger Willemsen

7.10.22 – 27.3.23
Werner Herzog

25.8.22 – 8.5.23

Roger Willemsen

7.10.22 – 27.3.23
Werner Herzog

25.8.22 – 8.5.23
Deutscher Fernsehfunk in Focus

21.12.21 – 25.3.22
Frame by Frame – Restoring Films

28.10.21 – 4.7.22

Deutscher Fernsehfunk in Focus

21.12.21 – 25.3.22
Frame by Frame – Restoring Films

28.10.21 – 4.7.22
Close-Up – The Film Costumes of Barbara Baum

1.10.20 – 9.8.21
Be Caligari! – The Virtual Cabinet

13.2.20 – 9.8.21
Burn Marks – Film Posters from a Salt Mine

28.11.19 – 1.3.21

Close-Up – The Film Costumes of Barbara Baum

1.10.20 – 9.8.21
Klaus Wildenhahn

Klaus Wildenhahn
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek

18.6. – 28.9.20
Be Caligari! – The Virtual Cabinet

13.2.20 – 9.8.21
Burn Marks – Film Posters from a Salt Mine

28.11.19 – 1.3.21
Quelle: WDR

Life, Death and Weddings – Lindenstraße in the Television Media Library

8.11.19 – 23.3.20

Burn Marks – Film Posters from a Salt Mine

28.11.19 – 1.3.21
Quelle: WDR

Life, Death and Weddings – Lindenstraße in the Television Media Library

8.11.19 – 23.3.20
Modern Cinema – Film in the Weimar Republic

20.6. – 13.10.19
Trophäe Grimme Preis, © Marc Ciabattoni

Award-Winning! The Grimme Archive in the Television Media Library

24.5. – 3.11.19
Between the Films – A Photo History of the Berlinale

28.9.18 – 5.5.19

Between the Films – A Photo History of the Berlinale

28.9.18 – 5.5.19
Melancholy and Ease – A special exhibition for Helmut Dietl

29.6. – 30.9.18
Ufa – The History of a Brand

24.11.17 – 22.4.18

Ufa – The History of a Brand

24.11.17 – 22.4.18
Robby Müller – Master of Light

6.7. – 5.11.17
1000 Tatort Crime Scenes – All the Films. All the Cases

1.11.16 – 29.1.17
Things to Come – Science · Fiction · Film

30.6.16 – 14.5.17

1000 Tatort Crime Scenes – All the Films. All the Cases

1.11.16 – 29.1.17
Things to Come – Science · Fiction · Film

30.6.16 – 14.5.17
A Lola for Regina Ziegler – Films for the Cinema, Television and Theater

3.5. – 19.6.16
Forgotten City – Deir Ezzor

12.4. – 1.5.16
Best Actress – Oscars®, Roles and Images

10.12.15 – 1.5.16

Best Actress – Oscars®, Roles and Images

10.12.15 – 1.5.16
Deutscher Filmpreis – The Lola in the Museum für Film und Fernsehen

19.6. – 11.10.15
Bigger Than Life – Ken Adam’s Film Design

11.12.14 – 17.5.15
… and Action! How are Films and Television Made? – An Exhibition for Children from 4 to 14 years

29.5.14 – 26.4.15

Bigger Than Life – Ken Adam’s Film Design

11.12.14 – 17.5.15
… and Action! How are Films and Television Made? – An Exhibition for Children from 4 to 14 years

29.5.14 – 26.4.15
70,000 Years Just Like One Day – Alexander Kluge’s Current Work for Television Films, Plus an Installation – A Place of Enchantment

3.4. – 27.7.14
Light and Shadow – On the Film Set of the Weimar Republic

23.1. – 27.4.14
The Unseen Seen – Film in a New Light

23.1. – 27.4.14

Bernd Eichinger – ... alles Kino (... Everything is Cinema)

28.6. – 6.10.13
Martin Scorsese

10.1. – 12.5.13
40 Years of Sesamstraße – Now Appearing at the Museum für Film und Fernsehen

13.12.12 – 5.5.13

40 Years of Sesamstraße – Now Appearing at the Museum für Film und Fernsehen

13.12.12 – 5.5.13
Heroes – An Exhibition for Children

29.3. – 21.10.12
On the Set

15.12.11 – 29.4.12

On the Set

15.12.11 – 29.4.12
Design: Pentagram Design ldt.

Between Film and Art – Storyboards from Hitchcock to Spielberg

11.8. – 27.11.11
Design: Pentagram Design ldt.

Experimental Television of the 1960s and ’70s

19.5. – 24.7.11
Ingmar Bergman – Truth and Lies

27.1. – 29.5.11
In the Jungle – An Exhibition for Children

4.6.10 – 27.3.11

Das Nossendorf-Projekt – An Installation by Hans Jürgen Syberberg

13.11. – 8.12.10
In the Jungle – An Exhibition for Children

4.6.10 – 27.3.11
Romy Schneider: Vienna – Berlin – Paris

5.12.09 – 29.8.10

Romy Schneider: Vienna – Berlin – Paris

5.12.09 – 29.8.10
Wir waren so frei… Momentaufnahmen 1989/1990

1.5. – 9.11.09
Casting a Shadow – Creating the Alfred Hitchcock Film

29.1. – 14.6.09
Loriot – Vicco von Bülow zum 85. Geburtstag

6.11.08 – 13.4.09
Water Worlds – A Television Exhibition for Children

29.5.08 – 11.1.09

Loriot – Vicco von Bülow zum 85. Geburtstag

6.11.08 – 13.4.09
Water Worlds – A Television Exhibition for Children

29.5.08 – 11.1.09