Museums in Berlin saw a spike in visitors in 2023, following a significant drop during the coronavirus pandemic, the city’s Senate for Culture has announced.

More Berlin museum visits in 2023

The Berlin Senate for Culture and Social Cohesion has announced that the city’s museums, memorials and exhibitions saw a 20 percent increase in visitors in 2023.

“Museums and memorials have successfully won back their audience following the coronavirus pandemic and have even reached people who weren’t previous visitors,” Culture Senator Joe Chialo (CDU) was quoted as saying in a press release from the senate.

“To support their work we have strengthened the institutions structurally and positioned them strategically - and I would like to work to ensure that this remains the case in the future," Chialo added.

Growing interest in Berlin’s smaller museums

The Topography of Terror (2.050.729 visitors), the German Museum of Technology (716.517 visitors) and Georg Kolbe Museum (38.734 visitors) were among the Berlin museums which managed to draw in more visitors during 2023 than before the pandemic.

The figures also showed a swing towards Berlin’s smaller museums; alongside a spike in visitors at the smaller George Kolbe Museum, located at the sculptor’s former home, Die Domäne Dahlem open-air museum for food and agriculture museum and Schwules Museum (Gay Museum Berlin) also saw an up tick on pre-coronavirus numbers.

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