About us
Kulturprojekte Berlin Ltd. is a not-for-profit organisation that works for the promotion, networking and mediation of culture. We create and manage cultural events in the Berlin region and work in close association with various projects and museums across the city. We are also responsible for developing a cultural education programme and for hosting and/or financing venues and festivals.
Cultural Projects and Initiatives
- City-wide events such as the Long Night of Museums and the European Month of Photography
- Twin-city projects such as Berlin-Istanbul 2009
- Conferences such as the Berlin conference The Challenge of Cultural Economy – Politico-cultural Answers and Strategies (8th/9th November 2007)
- Exhibitions such as The Art of the Two Germanys during the Cold War / Deutsche Kunst im Kalten Krieg (in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009)
Together with the Senate Department for Economy, Technology, and Women, as well as the Berlin State Cultural Administration, Kulturprojekte Berlin Ltd. helped to create the new information portal Creative.City.Berlin. The site has been up and running since autumn 2008 and acts as an umbrella website for contacts and information on Berlin’s creative arts scene.
Services We Offer
Kulturprojekte Berlin Ltd. produces the renowned MuseumsJournal, a quarterly publication dedicated to writing on museums, stately homes, and collections in Berlin and Potsdam. We also provide an online version which is regularly updated. Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Berlin, describes it in the foreword to the anniversary edition, as “indispensable reading for anyone who visits exhibitions”.
We are also responsible for the editing of Museumsportal. Launched in January 2008, the website offers information on 200 museums and exhibition venues, thematic guides, an events- calendar, and the latest news.
FührungsNetz (Guided Tours Network) offer a diverse range of programmes in Berlin’s museums, exhibitions, and collections, including multilingual tours, tours for the blind, and workshops for children. FührungsNetz also organise historical cultural tours of the city and are happy to tailor the tours to suit individuals’ particular interests/needs. Tours of the Martin Gropius Bau museum are especially popular. The full schedule of museum-based educational programmes can be found in the quarterly Museumstip leaflet and in the FührungsNetz monthly newsletter, which details upcoming exhibitions, events and programmes for children and young people.
Information and booking: MuseumsInformation Berlin hotline +49 (0)30 - 247 49 888.
Cultural Education
Our cultural education projects aim to overcome barriers between school and out-of-school, between cultures, generations, and Berliners of different ethnic backgrounds, and to enable greater access to Berlin’s diverse cultural attractions.
Since mid-2006 the scheme OFFENSIVE CULTURAL EDUCATION has been discussed with representatives from politics, science, art, education, the arts council and numerous projects all over Berlin. The Berlin Department for Cultural Education acts as the central coordinator for this project and takes responsibility for the administration of the Berlin Project-Fund for Cultural Education. So far the scheme has fostered 25 partnerships between schools and cultural institutions and the plan is to extend this to many more schools across the capital.
Museums and theatres also have an important role to play in cultural education, and developments are underway in both:
- Specialist museum projects have been put together, for example the Abenteuer Museum for young school children.
- The Schaubude Berlin are part of TUSCH- a partnership between theatres and schools in Berlin and is now partner to two schools (the Erika-Mann Grundschule, Wedding, and the BIP Kreativitätsschule, Pankow.)
Sponsorship for festivals and theatrical venues
- transmediale – Festival for art and digital culture (every year in February)
- International Dance Festival in Berlin– Tanz im August (every year in August)
- Move Berlim – Contemporary Brazilian dance festival (every two years in April)
- Schaubude Berlin Berlin’s central venue for puppet theatre
- ohrenstrand.net – Berlin network for new sounds
An experienced team of academics and project managers deals with all administrative, financial, legal, technical, and organisational services.
Kulturprojekte Berlin Ltd. is the result of the merger that took place in October 2006 of Kulturveranstaltungs Ltd. (BKV) and Berlins Museumspädagogischer Dienst (MD), and is based in the Podewil Palais, in East Berlin.