The Landesmusikrat Berlin celebrates the Year of the Accordion with the exhibition series “600 Accordions. Your stories. Our Berlin.”

Part 3 of the exhibition from Berlin music educator Dieter Plinke, who has collected well over 600 accordions from a wide variety of countries, times and Berlin neighborhoods in the course of his life, will take place at the Forum Steglitz shopping centre, Passage ground floor in Berlin, Germany from August 10th at 4pm.

The exhibition can be seen there from August 11th to 29th, 2026, Mon-Sat between 10am and 8pm and then continues through the Allee-Center Berlin in Lichtenberg, the East Side Mall in Friedrichshain and Das Schloss in Steglitz.

In cooperation with the Handelsverband Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. and six Berlin shopping centres, the Landesmusikrat Berlin is making this extraordinary collection accessible to the public throughout the city in the Year of the Accordion. The exhibition series is accompanied by a multifaceted program with music, workshops, hands-on activities and personal stories about the accordion.

For further information email: akkordeon@landesmusikrat-berlin.de

600 Accordions Part 1

600 Accordions Part 2