Family outings in Berlin’s Pankow district can combine children’s museum activities, creative workshops and planetarium programmes. Compare upcoming events at MACHmit! Museum für Kinder, Zeiss-Großplanetarium and other local places, paying attention to the activity and age recommendation rather than the venue name alone.
287 shows and events

Telescope images fill the planetarium dome while live presenters explain star clusters, nebulae and distant galaxies.

A documentary theatre piece examines perpetrators of the Nazi regime through biographies and testimonies.

Cello students play together in a large orchestra, exploring repertoire from the Baroque period to Bartók.

Children sing, move and join a fairy tale brought to life together.

A fish searches for his glittering scale in a film exploring rainbows and celestial fish.

Sabine Kolbe tells and acts out winter fairy tales using paper and simple objects.

A family session compares human culture and customs with the behaviour of animals.

Marita Kelbl draws during a reading, then children use her drawings to create their own artworks.

Children explore light, sound and materials to tell the story of a planet.

Children print with different materials and make their own Christmas gifts.

Top German singer-songwriters perform clever, funny and thoughtful songs about family life.

Three dancers dig through a mountain of clothing, exploring self-presentation and belonging.

A researcher guides children through experiments exploring nature's clever solutions, from polar bears to maple seeds.

Two clowns cook apple cake with acrobatics, dance and audience participation.

Children build their own electric car and investigate how a circuit works.

Children build a curved tower from straight rods, inspired by real towers.

Children examine stones and crystals and learn how they form.

Children build a curved tower from straight rods, inspired by real towers.

Teens act, write and shape an evolving political story through theatre and games.

Otto Kuhnle plays a circus director who does everything himself, with music, clowning and magic.

Penguin Gordon and Tapir share a home but have very different habits, testing their friendship.

Justus, Peter and Bob investigate a disappearance, accompanied by 3D sound and atmospheric dome visuals.


Children and their parents or caregivers discover board games, card games and Memory together.