Berlin 2024 – the main events
Events, exhibitions, openings
As the year draws to a close, the whole city is preparing for the best season of the year: Christmas! Find out everything you need to know about the Berlin Christmas markets and enjoy the start of winter in the capital!
It's already clear where you'll be spending New Year's Eve: come to the Brandenburg Gate on 31 December. Come to the Brandenburg Gate on 31 December and celebrate with thousands at the biggest New Year's Eve party in Europe Celebrate at the Gate 2024.
You can see what's going on in Berlin here:
The main events and exhibitions in Berlin 2024
What's new in Berlin?
Events and Exhibitions 2024 in Berlin
Also go to our top exhibitions 2024 / 2025 in Berlin
Take a look ahead to next year: In Berlin 2025 you will find an overview that we are constantly updating.
Zerreißprobe. Art between Politics and Society 1945 - 2000
The Neue Nationalgalerie shows its extensive art collection from a new perspective: Under the title “Zerreißprobe” (The Acid Test), it will present masterpieces from the years after the Second World War that bear witness to the upheaval, the German division and the emotional turmoil.
where: Neue Nationalgalerie
when: until 28th September 2025
KU'DAMM 59 - The Musical! Only until February 2025 in Berlin
Experience a magnificent work about the Schöllack sisters Monika, Eva, Helga and their mother Caterina - four fearless women fighting for emancipation and self-discovery in Berlin at the end of the 1950s.
There and gone. The Palace of the Republic is the present
Where the Humboldt Forum stands today was once the Palace of the Republic: the seat of the People's Chamber and a place of representation for the GDR, with modern design, art, plenty of restaurants and a discotheque. In the anniversary year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Humboldt Forum is dedicating an extensive exhibition and event programme to the most important building of the GDR.
where: Humboldt Forum
when: until 16 February 2025
FALLING | IN LOVE Grand Show
Experience the FALLING | IN LOVE Grand Show at Friedrichstadt-Palast Berlin. Plunge into a surging sea of colours and emotions - curated by Parisian star designer Jean Paul GAULTIER. Berlin's radiant show jewel with the indescribable magic of 100 million Swarovski crystals.
After reunification, seven East German photographers found the Ostkreuz photo agency. In spectacular photographs, they capture the atmosphere and social challenges in the years following reunification: hopes and fears, the desire for new beginnings and questions of belonging.
where: C/O Berlin
when: until 13 January 2025
Christmas markets in Berlin 2024
The Christmas season begins in Berlin at the end of November with numerous large and small Christmas markets. You will find all available information here over the next few months.
You can find the whole wide range of events in 2024/2025 in the capital's most beautiful calendar of events - at visitBerlin.de.
PALAZZO – The exciting Dinner Show
Experience exhilarating acrobatics, heartfelt comedy and invigorating live music combined with a delicious four-course-menu. An evening filled with delights for your eyes, ears and taste buds in the charming atmosphere of our spiegeltent.
Take a look ahead to next year: in Berlin 2025 you will find an overview that we are constantly updating.
What's new in Berlin?
New museums have opened or reopened all over the city: The new ones are Fotografiska Berlin and Deutschlandmuseum. The former airport tower in Tempelhof and the Deja Vu Museum also entice with new insights and views. And after years of renovation, the Medizinhistorische Museum der Charité once again invites visitors to experience 300 years of medical history.
Another interesting bit of news: Now that the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin has moved to a larger exhibition space at the Schloss Charlottenburg, the old museum building in Fasanenstraße now houses the Werkstatt Exilmuseum. It invites all Berliners to inform themselves about the future Exilmuseum at Anhalter Bahnhof and to be a part of it. It is to be inaugurated in 2028.
Image gallery
Deutschlandmuseum Berlin, Deutsche Teilung
THF Tower Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin
Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Ausstellungssaal
Sonderausstellung Mutter und Kind
Werkstatt Exilmuseum Berlin, Studio
