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UNITED | DISUNITED – Max Scheler: USA Photographs

Special Exhibition from November 15, 2025, to July 5, 2026

The exhibition at the Mark Twain Center, featuring more than 80 black-and-white and color photographs,
presents Max Scheler as a chronicler of historical events with a deep appreciation for everyday life.

SEEING TRUTH - Art, Science, and Museums in the Creation of Knowledge

A painting depicts 19th-century researchers excavating a dinosaur skull. A dinosaur rises in the background.

Special Exhibition from September 20, 2024, to April 27, 2025

How do we discover truths? How do art, science, and museums work together to produce truths?

Picturing the Pandemic. International Exhibition

Eröffnungsfeier der Dauerausstellung (Foto: Philipp Rothe )

Special Exhibition from April 27 to October 29, 2023

The exhibition features private photographs taken during the pandemic. Many residents of Heidelberg participated in the project, which was initiated by two American researchers.

The Social Network. The Guest Books of Art Collector Franz Moufang

Opening ceremony for the permanent exhibition (Photo: Philipp Rothe)

Satellite Exhibition from July 28 to October 22, 2023

At the Mark Twain Center, the focus was on Franz Moufang's connections to the United States.

Auf den Punkt gebracht. 100 Years of Marie Marcks

"Win a Date" (excerpt) (M. Marcks)

Special exhibition from 22 October 2022 to 12 March 2023

A comprehensive retrospective of the impressively diverse and still highly relevant life’s work of the Heidelberg-based draughtswoman and cartoonist.

Slave.Slaver.Slavery. Works by Michael Bacht

Square Dance im Mark Twain Center (Foto: Winkler)

Special exhibition from 8 October to 19 December 2021

Artworks, installations and models by the Heidelberg-based artist Michael Bacht, which explore the themes of racism and slave ships.

Travel is fatal to prejudice. Mark Twain in Heidelberg

"Mark Twain in Heidelberg" (Photo: City of Heidelberg-Diemer)

Special exhibition from 19 June to 13 December 2020

Mark Twain visited Heidelberg in the summer of 1878. The exhibition highlighted his unique perspective on the Germans.

America’s Hidden Places. Photographs

Sign with ‘Welcome’ printed on it (Photo: Steffen Diemer)

Special exhibition from 12 October to 16 December 2018

Photographer Steffen Diemer captured the U.S. Army’s departure and what it left behind in a series of striking photographs.

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