The Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Museum of Medical History and Museum of Natural History are joining forces to form the MuseumsMeileMitte. Together with local international companies, the district is networking the topics of knowledge, art and the future. They already attract two million people a year to the area around the Berlin Central Station, Invalidenstraße and Humboldthafen. Between the Invalidenpark and Humboldthafen, from the southern part of the Panke to the Spree River, these facilities convey knowledge and culture from the beginnings of our solar system through the present and the future. On Saturday, 13 June 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., the MuseumsMeileMitte and all participating partners will celebrate the public launch with a joint neighbourhood festival.

MuseumsMeileMitte – knowledge, art, the future – two million visitors, four museums, one mile: Between the Invalidenpark and Humboldthafen, in Mitte and Moabit, are four cultural and research institutions that have hardly ever been considered as belonging together until now. They characterise a shared urban area from the southern part of the Panke to the Spree River: two million people visit the Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, the Museum of Medical History and the Museum of Natural History every year. With a programme of over 20 exhibitions a year and 6,000 guided tours on over 20,000 square metres of exhibition space, the MuseumsMeileMitte conveys knowledge and culture from the beginnings of the solar system to the present and the future.

In future, visitors to the MuseumsMeileMitte will not only be able to discover the institutions on guided tours, but also previously unknown corners around Invalidenstraße, such as the Invalidenfriedhof, the small Panke tributary or the Berlin Wall Memorial on the Berlin Wall Trail. Joint events connect the MuseumsMeileMitte institutions with their neighbourhood. The first neighbourhood festival on Saturday, 13 June 2026 beginning at 12:00 noon will celebrate the public launch of the MuseumsMeileMitte with free admission to all four museums. On the "MMM walk", visitors explore the urban space between the museums, which are each a five to ten-minute walk apart. In the exhibitions and gardens, the first neighbourhood festival of the MuseumsMeileMitte offers workshops, tours, interactive activities or film programmes on a wide variety of topics; from the future of raw materials, the famous T. rex Tristan Otto, Berlin's urban ecology and insect worlds, the visibility of women in medicine or the history of the hospital bed, to contemporary light art and a painting workshop on roller skates.

The MuseumsMeileMitte is an initiative of the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité, Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Museum of Natural History and companies such as CA Immo Deutschland GmbH. Many large companies have their headquarters directly in the MuseumsMeileMitte. These include companies such as 50Hertz, Deutsche Bahn, KPMG and TotalEnergies. The MuseumsMeileMitte connects a place where tens of thousands of people work, where over 300,000 travellers visit the central station every day and where thousands of Berliners live.

Monika Ankele, Director of the Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité

"We see this initiative as an opportunity to productively connect the interfaces of the individual museums – from science to art to history – and to actively network the museums with their surroundings and strengthen the neighbourhood as a shared cultural and scientific space. On this basis, we want to develop joint formats and offers that go beyond individual institutions and create new approaches for different visitors."

Stefan Brandt, Director of the Futurium

"With the newly initiated MuseumsMeileMitte, the Futurium is sending a clear signal of the times for science communication in society. Our aim is not only to communicate future topics, but to make them tangible together with our visitors. Close cooperation with our partner institutions in the neighbourhood creates new perspectives on the major issues of our time – interdisciplinary, open, and close to the people. In this way, we create a space in which ideas can grow, dialogue is encouraged, and the future can be actively shaped."

Till Fellrath, Director of the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

"With two million visitors a year, the MuseumsMeileMitte is one of Berlin's most important cultural attractions. Along the former Berlin Wall, where Moabit, Mitte and Tiergarten are growing together, a neighbourhood is being created together with neighbours, institutions and companies that is actively shaping the future of the city. The Hamburger Bahnhof connects history, neighbourhood and the future through contemporary art that becomes part of urban society."

Johannes Vogel, Director of the Museum of Natural History

"The MuseumsMeileMitte is a commitment to an open society. When we interlink science, culture and the public so closely, we create places where democratic discourse is strengthened and evidence-based action becomes visible. Especially in times of great transformation, we need such spaces for dialogue."

Martin Löcker, Managing Director of CA Immo Germany

"The MuseumsMeileMitte is a great opportunity for Berlin, for the district and for the immediate neighbourhood, also through the networking of local businesses and people that it will create. We have been actively involved in the sustainable design and revitalisation of the public space around Europaplatz in Europacity and around the Hauptbahnhof for years and are now delighted to be involved in this initiative."

 Programme for the neighbourhood festival on 13 June 2026

10:00 a.m.             Start

12:00 p.m.             Official opening in the garden of the Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité.

9:00 p.m.             End of the neighbourhood festival

Further information on the programme can be found in the attached appendix and on the website: www.museumsmeilemitte.berlin

About the initiators

Berlin Museum of Medical History of the Charité

The Berlin Museum of Medical History is an institution of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. It invites visitors to discover the development of medicine over the last 300 years. A collection of pathological and anatomical wet and dry specimens comprising around 750 objects as well as models from central medical activity rooms such as the Anatomical Theatre, the Laboratory and the Ward provide insights into working methods and models of thought. Special exhibitions show how medicine, culture and history are interlinked and encourage visitors to take a fresh look at these connections. Artistic interventions, including in the ruins of the museum's lecture theatre, open up perspectives on the body and its diverse experiences between health and illness.

Futurium

The Futurium is an innovative "House of Futures" that focuses on the question: "How do we want to live?". It serves as a place for reflection and interaction on the major challenges and opportunities of our future.

The permanent exhibition is divided into three areas – Human, Nature and Technology – and presents exciting perspectives and inviting visitors to explore different visions of the future and to form their own views on controversial issues.

The programme is complemented by a wide range of digital formats and a diverse event forum where scientists, artists, visionaries, and changemakers engage in dialogue with a broad audience. In the Futurium Lab, visitors can explore future technologies in creative workshops and experiment with their own ideas in a playful and hands-on environment. 

Hamburger Bahnhof – Contemporary Art National Gallery

Art and society meet in the centre of Berlin at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. As a collection museum for contemporary art, the Hamburger Bahnhof looks to the future and is known for its expansive installations in the Historic Hall and for exhibitions by Berlin and international artists. As an open house for the urban community and its guests, free programmes such as the open-air DJ series Berlin Beats and the Open House Days are aimed at people with different life paths and international stories.

Museum of Natural History

The Museum of Natural History Berlin is an excellent and integrated research museum of the Leibniz Association with an international reputation and a globally networked research infrastructure. As an innovative communication centre, it aims to help shape the scientific and social dialogue concerning the future of our planet and develop a democratic knowledge-based society.

Teams from different disciplines are researching the more than 30 million artefacts in the collection on the development of the earth and life. The topics range from the development of the solar system to the mechanisms of evolution and the diversity of life on Earth. In addition, the scientific-historical, cultural and artistic significance of the objects is being researched. 

With the support of the Bundestag and the Berlin House of Representatives, the plan for the future, as a script for the evolution of the museum over the next few years, intends, at the first opportunity, to renovate all parts of the museum building in a sustainable and energy-efficient manner in keeping with its listed status as a historical and protected building – and thus create optimal conditions for their collections, research and transfer of knowledge. The ambition is clearly formulated: The Museum of Natural History wants to become a role model for the natural history museum of the 21st century and make a contribution to the preservation of nature and thus to the future of humanity.

CA Immo

CA Immo is an investor, manager and developer specialising in modern office properties in the metropolitan cities of Germany, Austria and Central Europe. The company covers the entire value chain in the commercial property sector and has a high level of in-house construction expertise. In Berlin, CA Immo is particularly well known for its Europacity neighbourhood development around the Berlin Central Station – between Spreebogen and Nordhafen.  As one of the original and largest property owners at this location, CA Immo played a key role in driving forward the development of the neighbourhood back in the early 2000s. Due to the focus of the property portfolio on high-quality office properties, the emphasis of the realisation of such development was on the properties intended for office properties. The best-known buildings realised by CA Immo in Europacity include the cube berlin on Washingtonplatz, the "Tour Total" tower block, the high-rise building on Europaplatz (headquarters of KMPG), the Upbeat on Nordhafen and the Anna Lindh building on Europaplatz, which is currently under construction.