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Bauhaus Archiv

Bauhaus Archiv
Sick of centuries of decorative design, a group of young architects under Walter Gropius started the Bauhaus movement in Weimar, believing firmly that by bringing design back to the basics would improve life. Read_on (No Comments)

Black Box Cold War

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The exhibition at Checkpoint Charlie discusses the state of the world during the Cold War, explaining the global links between the Berlin Wall, the Korean War and the Cuban missile crisis. Read_on (No Comments)

C/O Berlin

C/O Berlin
The 'International Forum For Visual Dialogues' puts on regularly changing photography exhibitions in the grand old Imperial Post Office building. Read_on (No Comments)

Currywurst Museum

Currywurst Museum
According to the myth, currywurst is Berlin's very own fast-food creation. A spicy sausage snack that first became popular in the late 1940s, these days currywurst can be found at train stations and street corners across the city. Read_on (No Comments)

Dalí - The Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz

Dalí - The Exhibition at Potsdamer Platz
The Spanish master of surreal, Salvador Dalí, left a rich heritage of amazing artworks when he went to molten-watch land himself. Read_on (No Comments)

DDR Museum

DDR Museum
Rather than concentrating on the Wall, state terror and other dark aspects of the East German regime, this popular museum presents a glimpse of daily life under totalitarianism. Read_on (No Comments)

Deutsche Guggenheim

Deutsche Guggenheim
The Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation present exhibitions by world-renowned contemporary artists in a space designed by Richard Gluckman. Read_on (No Comments)

Deutsches Historisches Museum

Deutsches Historisches Museum
Who’d have thought to look for a Prussian war chest in this early 18th-century building sitting pretty-in-pink by the Spree? This former arsenal houses the German History Museum, with its dazzling extension designed by architect IM Pei. Read_on (No Comments)

Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer

Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
The excellent national memorial site for the divided Germany has a documentation centre covering the Berlin Wall’s history in text, slides and dramatic film footage. Read_on (No Comments)

Gemäldegalerie

Gemäldegalerie
Berlin's largest art museum has 72 rooms full of works spanning the 13th to 18th centuries. German masters include Dürer, Cranach the Elder, and Holbein. Read_on (No Comments)

Hamburger Bahnhof

Hamburger Bahnhof
Berlin's wonderful modern art museum is situated in a converted train station. It's well worth a visit by those curious Read_on (No Comments)

Heinrich-Zille-Museum

Heinrich-Zille-Museum
Just like its Currywurst sausages, Berlin’s turn-of-the-20th-century poor little tenement children were chubby and saucy and no one captured them better than artist Heinrich Zille (1858-1929). Read_on (No Comments)

Historiale

Historiale
The Historiale presents Berlin's mindboggling history in under an hour. Wander through the visually-oriented exhibition and listen to short audioguide narration as you like. Read_on (No Comments)

HumboldtBox

HumboldtBox
A boxy modern building along Unter den Linden marks the spot where the Royal Palace will soon be reconstructed. This information centre has an exhibition on the history and future of the site, a restaurant/café and a rooftop viewing platform. Read_on (No Comments)

Kennedy Museum

Kennedy Museum
On 26 June 1963, US President John F. Kennedy visited Berlin. He peered over the Wall at Brandenburger Tor, and, impressed after looking totalitarianism in the eyes, scribbled some last-minute amendments to his famous speech. Read_on (No Comments)

Märkisches Museum

Märkisches Museum
Berlin's city museum is set in an impressive purpose-built complex from 1908, emulating local architectural styles and donned with a brick tower. Read_on (No Comments)

Museum für Film und Fernsehen

Museum für Film und Fernsehen
Hooray for Hollywood, but remember that some of the personalities that gave it glamour and style came from Germany. Actors Marlene Read_on (No Comments)

Museum für Naturkunde

Museum für Naturkunde
All the wonders of nature under one roof; a grand collection illustrating the evolution of life as well as the diversity and beauty of nature. Read_on (No Comments)

Neue Nationalgalerie

Neue Nationalgalerie
You'd think that the art world had gone to minimalist extremes when passing Mies van der Rohe's empty glass box of a museum; the 20th century treasures are all underground. Read_on (No Comments)

Sammlung Boros

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A showpiece M1200-type bunker from 1941, previously used for fruit storage and as an infamous techno and fetish club, Read_on (No Comments)

Schwules Museum

Schwules Museum
After 25 years in Kreuzberg, the new location of Berlin's gay museum has much more space for the permanent and temporary exhibition Read_on (No Comments)

Stasi Exhibition

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Near Checkpoint Charlie, this small exhibition gives insight into the nefarious deeds of the GDR's Ministry for State Security. Read_on (No Comments)

Tränenpalast

Tränenpalast
The Border Experiences exhibition highlights the everyday reality of the border running through Berlin. The glass pavilion beside Friedrichstraße station was the main border crossing between West and East Berlin between the 1960s and 1990. Read_on (No Comments)

Wall Panorama

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The round structure near Checkpoint Charlie houses an incredibly detailed 60 by 15 metre panoramic painting of the Berlin Wall and its scruffy surroundings as it looked in the mid-1980s. Read_on (No Comments)

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