Verborgene Museum, Women artists museum in Charlottenburg, Germany.
Verborgene Museum was an art museum in Charlottenburg devoted to works by female painters, photographers, sculptors, and architects from the 20th century. Its exhibitions displayed pieces by artists whose names and creations had vanished from major museum collections.
In 1987, for Berlin's 750th anniversary, Evelyn Kuwertz and Gisela Breitling, with the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, staged an exhibition titled Das Verborgene Museum after searching the depots of West Berlin's museums for forgotten works by women. The association Das Verborgene Museum e. V. was then founded and found rooms in a rear courtyard at Schlüterstraße 70 in Charlottenburg. The museum closed on 1 January 2022, and its archive passed to the Berlinische Galerie.
The museum shaped how Berlin discusses female artists and brought forgotten works into view. Its collection shows how women's creative contributions were overlooked for decades and what role they played in art history.
The building is no longer open to the public, but an active website documents 35 years of research. Visitors can access digitized exhibitions and information about the artists online.
The museum emerged from the discovery that Berlin's art collections displayed almost exclusively male artists. Only through deliberate research were works by hundreds of female artists rediscovered in museum holdings.
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