Berlin, 19. April 2012 On 28 April, the “Friederisiko” opens – the popular time-slot tickets for the exhibition can now be booked through www.visitBerlin.de. The great show in the New Palace is the highpoint of Frederick the Great’s 300th birthday anniversary year. The focus is on the king as an individual – his likings and habits. One can see things that cast light on the daily life of the Prussian monarch, from his reading room to a menu. 70 rooms have been opened for the visitors – more than ever before. The organisers expect around 300,000 visitors to the spectacular exhibition, which will be open until 18 October. The ticket price is 17.40 euros, concessions 13 euros. Children aged seven or less pay 2.50 euros.

German Historical Museum and National Gallery: 2 x Frederick with a visitBerlin ticket

“Old Fritz” or “Frederick the Great”? With the combi-ticket offered by the State Museums of Berlin and the German Historical Museum, visitors can follow the traces of the Prussian king. The exhibition “Frederick the Great – respected, revered, reviled …” in the German Historical Museum up to 29 July 2012 is devoted to the different pictures of Frederick II in art, politics and society. Meanwhile, the Old National Gallery shows “…the old Fritz, who lives in his people.” The combi-ticket for the two exhibitions is exclusively available from the organisers and from visitBerlin: by phone from 030 - 25 00 25 or in the three Berlin Tourist Info offices at the Brandenburg Gate, the Hauptbahnhof (central station) and the Neues Kanzler Eck building. The ticket costs 14 euros, concessions 7 euros.

Book online instead of queuing

Whether for The Marriage of Figaro in the Bode Museum or the Gerhard Richter exhibition in the New National Gallery: the latest cultural highlights in the German capital can be booked comfortably from home via www.visitBerlin.de . This includes the current visitor star attraction: the Gerhard Richter retrospective exhibition in the New National Gallery, which has already been seen by 250,000 visitors. The exhibition is still running until 13 May 2012 (tickets 8 euros, concessions 4 euros). Conductor and director Christoph Hagel is staging Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of Figaro, at an unusual location up to 27 May 2012: the Bode Museum on the Museumsinsel (Museum Island). This is the backdrop for a turbulent comedy, the opera that combines slapstick, classical ballet and rococo dance (tickets from 64 euros). Tickets can also be booked through visitBerlin for the exhibitions “Pacific Standard Time – Art in Los Angeles” (tickets 12, concessions 9 euros) and Diane Airbus (tickets 10, concessions 7 euros) in the Martin-Gropius-Bau museum.

For more information: go to visitBerlin.de or call the service number 030 – 25 00 25