List of special exhibitions at the Museum of Hamburg History
The Museum of Hamburg History showed the following special exhibitions from 1911 (selection). The information comes from the documentation department of the Museum of Hamburg History.
Exhibition title | Period of the exhibition |
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Works by Arnold Lyongrün | 1911 |
Hamburg portraits - paintings from private ownership | 04/11/1935 - 01/12/1935 |
Hamburg and the German Hanseatic League - Exhibition of the Hamburg State Archives | 07.1938 |
Hamburg's omnibuses and horse-drawn trams 1839-1890 | 09.1947 - 10.1947 |
Our Alster , combined with a painting exhibition by Arthur Illies - exhibition of the Alster Association | May 13, 1950 - May 28, 1950 |
Judges and courts in old Hamburg - exhibition of the administration of justice and the state archive | 02.10. - 11/28/1954 |
HAPAG - from the history of a Hamburg shipping company | 03.1960 - 05.1960 |
Hamburger: Fritz Kempe - Photographic portraits of public figures in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - from the collection of the Landesbildstelle in connection with the Hamburg Society | 11/03/1964 - 12/10/1964 |
125 years of the Berlin-Hamburg rail link [?] | 1971 [?] |
Festival parades in Hamburg 1696-1913 - bourgeois self-expression and historical awareness | May 9, 1972 - September 10, 1972 |
Christmas exhibition | 12.1972 |
The exclamation in Hamburg - rural traders on the market | May 18, 1973 - December 2, 1973 |
Gardens, country houses and villas of the Hamburg bourgeoisie: Art, cultural and social life in 4 centuries - exhibition in connection with the Hamburg Monument Protection Office and the State Archives | May 29, 1975 - October 26, 1975 |
... to America! - Emigrated to the United States | 07/04/1976 - 09/26/1976 |
Freedom for america! The American War of Independence from 1775 to 1783 - British Library memorial exhibition at the MHG | December 14, 1976 - March 13, 1977 |
Brick building in Hamburg - exhibition in the tax authority on Gänsemarkt | 05.1977 - 06.1977 |
There is no need to take notice of Lessing - exhibition in the tax authority on Gänsemarkt | 01.1979 - 05.1979 |
Labor movement in Hamburg from its beginnings to 1918 | 05.1979 - 09.1979 |
Folk art from Poland | 12.1979 - 02.1980, opening 19.12.1979 |
Hamburg begins with Ansgar | 02/07/1980 - 03/23/1980 |
Painter of the Sea - Marine Painting in 300 Years (Peter Tamm Collection) | 11.1980 - 02.1981 |
50 years of the Hamburg model railway 1931-1981 | 1981 |
Labor and extermination - the Neuengamme concentration camp 1938-1945 | Opening of the Document House October 18, 1981 |
Layer by layer to Hammaburg - an exhibition by the Museum Education Service | May 12, 1981 - December 31, 1981 |
Peace for the world theater - Goethe, a participant, observer and mediator between world and theater, politics and history | 11/26/1982 - 03/27/1983 |
Hans Leip - writer, painter, graphic artist 1893-1983 | 09/22/1983 - 11/27/1983 |
Kola-Fu - concentration camp and Gestapo prison Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel 1933-1945 | 09.1983 - 05.1984 |
Between the archipelago and the fjords, escape routes to the north - new work by Volker Meier | 06/21/1984 - 10/21/1984 |
Navy look - sailors in fashion | 08.1984 - 11.1984 |
A Swedish archipelago - ships, fishermen, farmers - an exhibition at the Stockholm City Museum | 02/01/1985 - 05/05/1985 |
City, country, river ... Alster stories - an exhibition by the Museum Education Service | 07.1985 - 03.1986 |
Stones of contention - National Socialism and World War I in monuments 1945-1983 | 12.1985 - 01.1986 |
Hammonias Töchter - Women and the women's movement in Hamburg's history | 09.1985 - 01.1986 |
Formerly at home in Hamburg: Jewish life on the Grindel; Bornplatz Synagogue and Talmud Torah School | 09.1986 - 02.1987 |
Hamburg images, Hamburg texts - visions and reflections by Gerrit M. Bekkers on Hamburg history | 04/29/1987 - 08/02/1987 |
Forgotten - Disabled, Forced Sterilization, Prostitutes, Swing Youth, Homosexuals, Beggars and Homeless, Jehovah's Witnesses . Exhibition of the project group for the forgotten victims of the Nazi regime | from 08.1987 |
Hamburg portraits of the 17th century | 09.1987 - 11.1987 |
We are the force - labor movement in Hamburg from the beginning until 1945 [and 1945-1949] | 11.1988 - 02.1989 |
The Hanseatic League - reality and myth | 08.1989 - 11.1989 |
Matthias Claudius , the Wandbeker messenger - for his 250th birthday | 08.1990 - 10.1990 |
History in Gold - Exhibition of a Hamburg private collection in the Münzkabinett of the MHG | 03/20/1991 - 06/02/1991 |
Shipyard pieces and container pictures - works by Dieter Nestler | 04/26/1991 - 06/16/1991 |
The model of Solomon's temples | 10.1991 - 11.1991 |
400 years of Jews in Hamburg | 11/08/1991 - 03/29/1992 |
In step out of step | |
Hamburg processes - painting, photography, installation by Rainer Müller | 05.1992 - 06.1992 |
Figure and abstraction - the work of the artist Siegfried Jonas | 05.1992 - 08.1992 |
Faces and personalities - Hamburg portraits from the Museum of Hamburg History | 09/02/1992 - 01/03/1993 |
Volker Meier retrospective | 06.1993 - 09.1993 |
When everything falls apart ...! Hamburg's way into the firestorm | 07.1993 - 02.1994, extended until 02.1997 |
Winter camp - graphics and paintings by Rolf Zander 1955-1990 | 01.1994 - 03.1994 |
The First World War: 'From Human Slaughterhouse' and 'Steel Thunderstorms' - Visions and Reality . | 07.1994 - 11.1994, extended until 02.1997 |
Restoring does not mean doing something new - a changing profession | 12.1995 - 02.1996 |
The discrete charm of public institutions - the fascination of everyday life - paintings and drawings by Conrad Brockstedt 1989-1995 | December 20, 1995 - February 11, 1996 |
At the end of the world - around Cape Horn, Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia. History and discoveries as reflected in old maps | 05.1996 - 10.1996 |
Gerd Stange: Digging further - digging as an artistic strategy | 12/17/1996 - 02/23/1997 |
The whole boat trip in miniature - ship and harbor models by Edmund Köster | 12.1996 - 02.1997 |
Building according to nature - Palladio's heirs in Northern Europe | 05/30/1997 - 08/31/1997 |
City landscapes - paper architecture - paper objects and drawings by Werner A. Nöfer | 02/13/1998 - 06/14/1998 |
My big dream is Mexico: text-photo-portraits of people with HIV and AIDS | 04/22/1998 - 06/07/1998 |
Animals, people, illusions - 150 years of Hagenbeck | 06.1998 - 11.1998 |
Ceremonial and freedom | 03/25/1999 - 09/19/1999 |
Opening of the Werner steamer | Opening 05/05/1999 |
The Tree of Life: Shu Chuanxi and the renewal of Chinese painting | October 12, 1999 - January 9, 2000 |
Manfred Besser: City Country River; Pictures from the banks of the Elbe | 01/21/2000 - 02/20/2000 |
Hamburg and Hapag: seafaring in the poster | 03/08/2000 - 07/02/2000 |
I wanted it to be night or the Prussians would come : the Battle of Waterloo in miniature | 03/28/2000 - 04/24/2000 |
A concentration camp is evacuated: prisoners between extermination and liberation | May 3, 2000 - June 12, 2000 |
The gateway to the world of Constantin Hahm with pictures, drawings and Hahm's harbor bar | October 25, 2000 - January 14, 2001 |
Bible, sword and belief in gods | 01/25/2001 - 03/04/2001 |
God's friend of all the world enemy: from piracy and convoy travel; Störtebeker and the consequences | March 23, 2001 - September 2, 2001, extended until October 7, 2001 |
On the Elbe to Heligoland: our life with the flow | 05/29/2002 - 09/29/2002 |
It burned in all corners at the same time: Hamburg 1842 | 11/21/2002 - 02/23/2003 |
The ancient mosaics of Ravenna | 03/04/2003 - 04/13/2003, extended until 04/21/2003 |
The dream of the city by the sea: port cities from all over the world | 09/10/2003 - 02/01/2004 |
Experiment and tradition: jewelry and equipment by Hildegard Risch and Eva Mascher-Elsässer | 04/01/2004 - 06/13/2004 |
Axel Groehl - On the French Revolution; Art exhibition with works by Axel Groehl | May 13, 2004 - September 5, 2004 |
The big world of small ships: history of seafaring in miniature | October 30, 2004 - March 6, 2005 |
Boundless: contemporary Jewish artists in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein | 05.12.2004 - 12.12.2004 |
1945: End of the war in Hamburg - a city remembers | 04/27/2005 - 08/14/2005 |
The fascination of the port of Hamburg: photographs by Walter Lüden | 09/16/2005 - 01/08/2006 |
The Neustadt - religious diversity and tolerance | 10/27/2005 - 11/24/2005 |
The incessant love of gardening: garden culture in Hamburg from the 17th to the 20th century | 03.03.2006 - 30.04.2006 |
The Hamburg Sound: Beatles, Beat & Grosse Freiheit | June 3, 2006 - November 5, 2006, extended to January 7, 2007 |
Glass culture in Lower Saxony: tableware and household glass from the Middle Ages to the early modern period | 03/29/2007 - 06/24/2007 |
Fled Germany - Hamburg artist in exile 1933-1945 | 07.09.2007 - 09.12.2007 |
Hamburg's story between myth and reality | 02/13/2008 - 08/10/2008 |
Designer of the modern city: William Lindley in Hamburg and Europe 1808-1900 | October 1st, 2008 - February 22nd, 2009, extended until May 17th, 2009 |
Multiple City - Hamburg | 07/15/2009 - 11/15/2009 |
Kissed awake : the rediscovery of a Hanseatic country house (1830-1909); a public restoration show | 04/23/2010 - 01/09/2011 |
breathe and be halfway free: Escape to Shanghai | May 20, 2011 - July 17, 2011 |
The great flood - disaster, challenge, prospects | 02/24/2012 - 09/02/2012 |
Sacred Spaces - Two exhibitions on sacred architecture. The secrets of the Solomonic Temple & New Mosques in the picture of the city. | 01.11.2012 - 03.03.2013 |
What to do with the city What can, what wants, what is the Hamburg Museum supposed to do? | 04/25/2013 - 06/30/2013 |
The Vertical Village. Individual, Informal, Intense Taipei | 08/02/2013 - 09/29/2013 |
Wilhelmsburg - Sydhavnen | 09/25/2013 - 10/20/2013 |
"Go then!" | 11/08/2013 - 04/21/2014 |
SPARSTADT - between enduring and household | 08/28/2014 - 10/26/2014 |
175 years of the daguerreotype | 11/16 2014 - 01/06/2015 |
Park pioneers | 06/13/2014 - 04/19/2015 |
Tailor-made | 07/03/2015 - 07/19/2015 |
Luther and the consequences for the city | 03/26/2015 - 09/06/2015 |
City image change. Hamburg in photographs | June 19, 2015 - October 18, 2015 |
Looking Hamburg in the face. Portraits from five centuries | November 25, 2015 - May 22, 2016 |
No beer without the Alster. Hamburg - Brewery of the Hanseatic League | 07.09.2016 - 12.03.2017 |
Revolution! Revolution? Hamburg 1918-1919 | 04/24/2018 - 02/25/2019 |
The New Home 1952-1982. A social democratic utopia and its buildings | 07/27/2019 - 10/6/2019 |
Tattoo legends. Christian Warlich on St. Pauli | 11/27/2019 - 05/25/2020 |
Web links
- Museum website for the current special exhibition
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Homepage of the museum (Museum of Hamburg History or hamburgmuseum.de)
- Exhibition archive from 1980 (archive; at www.hamburgmuseum.de)