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Museum Island in Berlin is one of the world's great museum complexes and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. On the northern tip of an island in the Spree River, five historic museums stand side by side, spanning thousands of years of…
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The Humboldt Forum in Berlin is a vast museum and cultural center housed in the rebuilt Berlin Palace, right across from Museum Island in the historic heart of the city. Behind its reconstructed baroque facades you'll find world cultures c…
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The Jewish Museum Berlin in the Kreuzberg district is one of the most visited museums in the German capital and among the largest Jewish museums in Europe. It traces Jewish life in Germany from medieval communities to the present day, insi…
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The DDR Museum in Berlin brings everyday life in communist East Germany (the GDR, or DDR in German) to life through hands-on exhibits. Sit behind the wheel of a Trabant, open the drawers of a fully furnished prefab apartment, and step into…
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The Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Berlin's Museum Island is Karl Friedrich Schinkel's neoclassical masterpiece, facing the Lustgarten, and the oldest building on the island. Behind an 87-meter colonnade you will find the Antikensammlung, th…
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The Bode Museum (Bode-Museum) sits at the northern tip of Berlin's Museum Island, a striking neo-Baroque building with a green dome rising above the River Spree. It holds the Sculpture Collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art, and the Coin…
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The German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum) in Berlin's Kreuzberg district is one of the largest technology museums in Germany and among the most popular things to do in Berlin, with more than 700,000 visitors in 2023. Set on…
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The Hamburger Bahnhof is Berlin's national museum of contemporary art, set inside a grand 1840s railway terminus just a few minutes' walk from Berlin Central Station. Part of the Nationalgalerie, it shows Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol along…
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From 1961 to 1989 the Berlin Wall ran right in front of its main entrance, and visitors had to go in through the back. Today the Martin-Gropius-Bau, or Gropius Bau for short, is one of Berlin's most important exhibition venues. The Renaiss…
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The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Natural History Museum) is the largest natural history museum in Germany and one of the best things to do in central Berlin. In its glass-roofed main hall you stand beneath the skeleton of Giraffatitan, re…
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A black steel roof, 64.8 metres square and weighing 1,260 tonnes, rests on just eight columns above a hall made entirely of glass. The Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is the last work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and the only buildi…
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The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island is home to the world-famous bust of Nefertiti. It also houses the Museum of Prehistory and Early History, with the golden Berlin Gold Hat and Heinrich Schliemann's finds from Troy. Just as memorab…
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The Stasi Museum in Berlin's Lichtenberg district occupies Building 1 of the former headquarters of East Germany's Ministry for State Security. From here Erich Mielke ran the secret police for more than three decades. Today you can walk th…
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The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") next to Friedrichstraße station in central Berlin was the departure hall of East Berlin's busiest border crossing during the Cold War. East Germans said goodbye here to relatives from the West, never su…