Overview
- The Haus am Waldsee, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Georg Kolbe Museum and Brücke‑Museum offered free entry on Sunday, October 25, 2026, and welcomed visitors with special events.
- Program highlights included a reading by Anna Shapiro and a portrait workshop at Kunsthaus Dahlem, the Georg Kolbe Museum’s free showing of the new exhibition “everybody,” a guided tour and drop-in workshop at Haus am Waldsee, and a landscape-focused tour at the Brücke‑Museum.
- Organizers said a generous private donor covered the costs of the one-day action so the museums could test a low‑threshold offer and reach new audiences.
- The museums deliberately scheduled the event during coalition talks to press for reinstating a regular free Museum Sunday and to shape cultural-policy and budget priorities for the incoming Berlin senate.
- The action recalled the former monthly Museumssonntag, which ran until 2024 and cost about two million euros a year to run, and museums say returning it would expand access but require steady public funding to be sustainable.