Haus Bastian (Staatliche Museen Berlin)

Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung

Situated directly adjacent to the Museumsinsel, a UNESCO World Heritage site, Haus Bastian offers diverse possibilities for innovative educational work and outreach programmes. Haus Bastian is a centrally located venue intended for a wide audience, where school groups and students, children and families, teenagers and adults will find more than just an ideal starting point from which to fan out into all fifteen collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Following their visits, these same groups will also have opportunities to enlarge upon and discuss their observations, experiences, and questions in a very creative environment. In addition to large regional and supraregional educational projects which will be realised here in the future, Haus Bastian offers a forum for debating current and future-oriented questions surrounding educational work, such as social participation, inclusion, and political education.
The Centre for Cultural Education is located in a building designed by David Chipperfield, which was used as a gallery until the beginning of 2019, before the Bastian family made a gift of the site to the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Since autumn 2019, all four floors of the building have been transformed into spaces designed for learning, live experience, and communication.
The programme at the centre is overseen by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s Education, Outreach, and Visitor Services Department.

About the educational department and intergenerational programmes 

The Education, Outreach, and Visitor Services Department is the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s central educational institution, responsible for designing and implementing the special events on offer at all fifteen of our collections.
Boasting a diverse programme of events, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin endeavours to attract users from a wide variety of groups: children and families; young people and adults; pre-school day-care centres, schools, universities, and other educational institutions; individual visitors and tour parties.
For major and larger projects, a broad range of user groups are invited to get actively involved in the museum’s work. Collaborations such as these are a means of exploring and defining the scope for play and activities in the museum’s educational work. Such outreach partnerships with schools, universities, and social organisations aim to open up the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to a wider public.
The Education, Outreach, and Visitor Services Department also offers a comprehensive range of services. It provides visitors making bookings with advice about guided tours and other events and gives information about the full range of collections and special exhibitions at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Website:
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/haus-bastian-centre-for-cultural-education/home/