In the middle of Berlin, art, science, and nature are only a few minutes apart. With the first neighborhood festival of MuseumsMeileMitte on 13.06.2026, Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Naturkunde, and the Museum of Medical History are making that proximity tangible. Together, they invite you to embark on a journey of discovery with family, friends, or people you might meet from the neighborhood. The four institutions are part of the newly founded MuseumsMeileMitte initiative. Each of them is different in its own way, but shares a common goal: to make knowledge and culture accessible and to bring people into conversation with one another. That is also what the first neighborhood festival at Futurium is all about. Since Futurium opened in 2019, the institution has been exploring the question “How do we want to live?” And it’s precisely this question that runs through the free program. At the neighborhood quiz “Um die Hecke gedacht”, put your knowledge to the test. If you’d rather get hands-on, develop sustainable products from old mobile phone parts in the Urban Mining workshop, or build new worlds together in the game “Just Add People”. The workshop “Bewegende Nachrichten” sounds particularly exciting. Here, write letters around questions such as: Where do our perspectives differ? What still connects us? Afterward, the messages travel from museum to museum, carrying your thoughts through the neighborhood.
Delve even deeper into Futurium’s themes and choose between three guided tours: “Discovering and Shaping the Future” explores how we might live tomorrow, while “Futures Literacy and the Oceans of Tomorrow” takes you on an interactive journey through possible futures for our oceans. Of course, it’s also worth making a detour to the other venues along MuseumsMeileMitte. At Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Naturkunde, and the Museum of Medical History, more exhibitions await you, also free of charge. To round off the day, the 25-member brass band “Fanfare Gertrude” will bring French street music to Futurium’s forecourt. Perhaps the best thing about this neighborhood festival is that no one has to think about the future alone. Instead, people discuss, play, build, and discover together. And along the way, you might not only encounter new ideas, but also meet new people from the neighborhood.
Text: Isabelle Marten / Photos: David von Becker, Stefanie Loos
MuseumsMeileMitte 13.06.2026
Futurium, Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr.50, 10557 Berlin–Mitte; map
Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr.43, 10115 Berlin–Mitte; map
Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
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