Museum of Decorative Arts Tickets

Cruise through 50 exhibits that were previously locked away in the museum’s storage facilities! In Encounters, you'll see finely chiselled bronze from the ancient Near East along with porcelain, glass snuff bottles and metallic objects from China.

Over the course of the 20th century, the majority of the museum’s non-European objects were transferred to other branches of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, such as the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) and the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art). However, a number of items have remained in the Kunstgewerbemuseum’s collection, and now is your chance to see them.

How did porcelain make its way from Asia to Europe? To what extent are the aristocratic lifestyles of the Rococo period reflected in the art of porcelain and faience? What were some of the compositional particularities of the medium, and what were the production techniques? All your porcelain-related questions will be answered in The Worlds of Rococo.

The fact that porcelain remains relevant to designers today is also displayed through a feature on “Porcelain and 3D Printing”.

Representing 150 years of fashion history, this sensational display conveys a sense of strolling through a shopping arcade, with the creations of such famous couturiers as Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli and Christian Dior in the windows. The core of the display is the international collection of Martin Kamer and Wolfgang Ruf, which was purchased in 2003.