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Bauhaus Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung
The Bauhaus Archive/Museum of Design is devoted to the members of the Bauhaus School, who laid the basis for much of contemporary design and architecture. Founded in Weimar by Berlin architect Walter Gropius, it aimed to unite art with everyday functionality, from doorknobs and radiators to the layout of entire districts and apartment blocks.
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Checkpoint Charlie Museum
The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is all that remains of the famed tower that symbolised East-West tension during the Cold War. The tower itself was unceremoniously craned away a few months after the border reopened. In 2001, a replica guardhouse was returned to the site (the original is in the Allierten Museum in Zehlendorf).
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Contemporary Fine Arts
There's usually an exciting exhibit going on at this progressive gallery which specialises in young artists, both emerging and already established. Its roster of artists includes Cecily Brown and Berlin-based phenoms Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter.
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Ddr Museum
In East Germany, kids were put through collective potty training, engineers earned little more than farmers and everyone, it seems, went on nudist holidays. Such are the fascinating nuggets you'll learn at this small, interactive museum dedicated to teaching the rest of us about daily life across the Iron Curtain. A must for Goodbye, Lenin fans.
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Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
If you've seen any other Guggenheim museum, especially those in New York and Bilbao, this small, minimalist gallery space - a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and the Guggenheim Foundation - is likely to be disappointing. Curators mount several exhibits a year featuring international contemporary artists of some renown.
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Deutsches Technikmuseum
It's easy to spend an entire day at the giant Deutsches Technikmuseum and the sizable Museumpark. The museum's 14 departments examine technology throughout the ages - from printing and transport to computers - with interactive stations. Demonstrations of historical machines and models take place throughout the museum.
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Galerie Eigen+Art
It's always worth checking out what's on the walls of this cutting-edge gallery. Owner Gerd Lybke has a keen eye for new German talent, whom he often shepherds to international fame. Success stories include Neo Rauch and Martin Eder.
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Gemäldegalerie
If you only have time for one art museum, make it the Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery), a spectacular showcase of European painting from the 13-18th centuries in a glorious building designed by Munich architects Hilmer & Sattler. The collection is famous for its quality and breadth. It's especially strong when it comes to Van Dyk, Hals, Rubens and Rembrandt.
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Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum Für Gegenwart
Berlin's premier contemporary art museum has a star-studded collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Anselm Kiefer as well as an entire wing of Joseph Beuys. Occupying a cleverly converted 19th-century railway station and adjacent 300m-long warehouse, it also has great temporary exhibits, a well-stocked art bookshop and a popular café called Sarah Wiener im Hamburger Bahnhof.
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Haus Am Checkpoint Charlie
The Cold War years, especially the history and horror of the Berlin Wall, are engrossingly if haphazardly chronicled in this private museum. The best bits are about ingenious escapes to the West in hot-air balloons, tunnels, concealed compartments in cars and even a one-man submarine. There is a lift but it doesn't go to all the floors.
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Jewish Museum
The history of German Jews and their contributions to culture, art, science and other fields are creatively chronicled in this sprawling museum in a spectacular building by Daniel Libeskind.
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Jüdisches Museum
Berlin's Jüdisches Museum, the largest Jewish Museum in Europe, celebrates the achievements of German Jews and their contribution to culture, art, science and other fields. An architectural work of art, the building and its contents are a major destination in Berlin.
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Jüdisches Museum
One of Berlin's must-see sights, the Jewish Museum is the largest in Europe. It chronicles 2000 years of Jewish history in Germany with an emphasis on culture, art and science. The 14 sections cover every major historical period. Only one section deals with the Holocaust, but its horrors are poignantly reflected by Libeskind's powerful architecture.
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Kennedy Museum
US president John F Kennedy of ' Ich bin ein Berliner ' fame is the focus of this intimate, nonpolitical exhibit set up like a walk-through family photo album. Besides pictures there are scribbled notes, JKF's crocodile-leather briefcase, Jackie's Persian lamb pillbox hat and a hilarious Superman comic book edition starring the president.
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Kulturforum
For more culture than you can poke a stick at, head to this cluster of museums and concert venues west of Potsdamer Platz. Kick off with the Berliner Philharmonie, a concert hall with otherworldly acoustics, before ambling over to the Kammer Musikaal (Chamber Music Hall) and the neo-Romanesque confection of Matthäuskirche.
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Kunst-Werke Berlin
A former margarine factory, this place has taken on new life as an epicentre of cutting-edge art. Its founder, Klaus Biesenbach, has since left for a prestigious gig with New York's MOMA, but exhibits here are still often essential viewing. Afterwards, the courtyard café inside Dan Graham's glass-and-chrome cube makes for a stylish refuelling spot.
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Martin-Gropius-Bau
Designed by the great-uncle of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, this grand Italian Renaissance-style palace usually presents some high-calibre travelling show such as the 2007 Cindy Sherman retrospective. A short stretch of Berlin Wall runs east along Niederkirchner Strasse. Admission varies according to the exhibit.
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Museum Für Film Und Fernsehen
From silent movies to sci-fi, this hi-tech museum charts the major milestones in German film and TV history. Of particular note are the head-spinning Caligari tribute, an exhibit about Leni Riefenstahl's epic Olympia and the collection of Marlene Dietrich memorabilia. Upstairs in the viewing room, famous TV broadcasts like JFK's Ich bin ein Berliner speech are only a mouse-click away.
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Museum Für Fotografie - Helmut Newton Sammlung
This museum is a bit of a shrine to Helmut Newton, the late enfant terrible of fashion photography. Besides a changing selection of his images, you can also admire his trademark 'Big Nudes', his partially recreated Monte Carlo office, his car and various personal effects, including his cameras. Other photographers are featured in temporary shows.
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Museum Für Naturkunde
He's back! After a thorough bone-by-bone cleaning, the world's largest dino on display, a 23m-long and 12m-high brachiosaurus, has returned to the glass-covered central hall of this university-affiliated museum. Other sections have also been dusted up and present such showstoppers as a fossilised archaeopteryx, meteorites and giant chunks of amber.
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Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Packed with fun, precious and rare sound machines, this surprisingly undervisited museum includes a glass harmonica invented by Ben Franklin, a flute played by Frederick the Great and Johann Sebastian Bach's cembalo. The Mighty Wurlitzer organ with more buttons and keys than a troop of beefeater guards is cranked up at on Saturday.
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Pergamon Museum
If you only have time for one museum in Berlin, make it the Pergamon for a feast of classical Greek, Babylonian, Roman, Islamic and Middle Eastern art and architecture. The giant complex, which was only completed in 1930, harbours under one roof: the Collection of Classical Antiquities, the Museum of Near Eastern Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art.
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Sammlung Daimlerchrysler
Escape the city bustle at this quiet and stylish gallery that presents international abstract, conceptual and minimalist art. It's on the top floor of the Weinhaus Huth, the only surviving historic structure on Potsdamer Platz. Ring the bell to be buzzed in.
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Schwules Museum
Museum, archive and community centre all in one, this nonprofit space is a great place to learn more about Berlin's queer history. Special exhibits usually focus on gay icons. The entrance is behind Café Melitta Sundström.
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Sophie-Gips-Höfe & Sammlung Hoffmann
A simple doorway leads to this artsy trio of courtyards between Sophienstrasse and Gipsstrasse, home to galleries, offices and the popular Barcomi's Deli . The complex is owned by a modern-art-loving couple, Erika and Rolf Hoffmann, who offer tours of their collection, the Sammlung Hoffmann, every Saturday.
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