Open Monument Day 2023

Zitadelle

Saturday 9.9.2023 10.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

The Open Monument Day will take place in Berlin on 9-10 September 2023. Since 1993, the Open Monument Day has been held nationwide as part of the European Heritage Days. Below you will find an overview of the special events and current exhibitions on 9-10.9.2023 at the Citadel.

 

Program

Saturday, 9.9.2023

2 pm  Public guided tour Zitadelle Spandau

 

Sunday, 10.9.2023

10 am – 5 am Monument workshop: Is that art, or should it go? What to do with problematic heritage? An artistic intervention by pupils of the Heinrich-Böll-Oberschule. | Proviantmagazin

11 am – 5 pmBISMARCK – Aus.Einander.Setzung” with the exhibition “Bismarck-Streit”. Creative hands-on booths for young and old. With a bookbinding booth where upper school students can learn different bookbinding techniques for sketchbooks and study books. | Jugendkunstschule Bastion Kronprinz

11 am Insights into the making of the exhibition “Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments” with collection manager Carmen Mann. | Proviantmagazin 

12 am Public guided tour Zitadelle Spandau

1 pm Show depot tour of the new “toxic monuments” with museum director Dr. Urte Evert. | Bastion Königin

2 pm Public guided tour Zitadelle Spandau 

3 pm & 4:30 pm Scenic guided tour Zitadelle Spandau

3 pm Traces of the Wehrmacht at the Citadel – guided tour with visit to the gas protection laboratories with museum director Dr. Urte Evert. | Torhaus

4 pm Guided tour of the exhibition “Bismarck-Streit”, with curator Johanna Riedel. | Zeughaus

5:30 pm Jazz & Drinks in the Ex-Halle: Pippo Miller. Jazz, Brazilian music, art song – Lutz Wolf/ wing horn and Pier Paolo Bertoli/chords.| Exerzierhalle

7 pm Atomic Gauguin – A participatory media performance by Alfred Banze. Paul Gauguin lives today in a Berlin allotment and then in the South Seas! A humorous tour de force through global art and colonial histories with film, song, painting and expressive dance. | Italienische Höfe

 

/ Admission free of charge

 

Fig.: Open Monument Day 2023 © Zitadelle Spandau