Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
The Rotes Rathaus (Red Town Hall) is the seat of Berlin's governing mayor and a red-brick neo-Renaissance pile completed in 1869. Outside, note the…
Must-see attractions in Berlin
Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
Berlin
Standing up to the Nazi terror took unimaginable courage, but one man who did so was Otto Weidt. The broom and brush maker saved many of his deaf and…
Historic Mitte
Artist Yadegar Asisi is famous for creating bafflingly detailed monumental photographic panoramas. In Berlin, the giant 'Die Mauer' next to Checkpoint…
Berlin
The Silent Heroes Memorial Center is dedicated to ordinary Germans who found the courage to help their persecuted Jewish neighbours through such actions…
Berlin
This rare eyewitness to the pre-WWII Potsdamer Platz was designed in 1912 as a wine restaurant. It was one of the first steel-frame buildings in town. The…
Akademie der Künste – Pariser Platz
Historic Mitte
The only building on Pariser Platz with a glass facade, the Academy of Arts was designed by Günter Behnisch and is the successor of Berlin’s oldest…
Historic Mitte
This small exhibit right by Checkpoint Charlie provides an easily accessible chronicle of the Cold War using photographs, maps, original footage and…
Schöneberg
This pretty cemetery, created in 1856, was a favourite final resting place for Berlin's 19th-century bourgeoisie; it brims with opulent gravestones and…
Wall Memorial ‘Parlament der Bäume’
Historic Mitte
What looks like a post-apocalyptic garden is actually a memorial site created in 1990 by environmental artist Ben Wagin atop a section of the Berlin Wall…
City West & Charlottenburg
This simple memorial honours the victims of the terror attack of 19 December 2016, when an Islamist asylum seeker drove into a crowd at the Christmas…
Tchoban Foundation – Museum für Architekturzeichnung
Prenzlauer Berg
Fans of edgy contemporary architecture should swing by this private museum housed in a striking sculptural pile of relief-decorated concrete cubes topped…
Neukölln
Weavers from Bohemia first settled in quiet Rixdorf, a tiny historic village centred on Richardplatz, in the early 18th century. Some of the original…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
Smile-inducing seahorses, ethereal jellyfish, Ophira the octopus and a marine dinosaur skeleton that can be 'reanimated' are some of the crowd favourites…
City West & Charlottenburg
Instigated in 1986 by a feminist artist and an art historian, this pint-size nonprofit museum has a unique focus: to exhibit the works of women artists…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
This private late-baroque home features a series of painstakingly restored period rooms that impart a sense of how the well-to-do lived, dressed and spent…
Berlin
The Academy of Arts has a pedigree going back to 1696 but its cultural programming is solidly rooted in the here and now. It covers all forms of artistic…
FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
Kreuzberg
The ups and downs of one of Berlin’s most colourful districts – Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain – are chronicled in this converted red-brick factory. The…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
A reddish sandstone memorial in a small park on Rosenstrasse called Block der Frauen by Jewish-German artist Inge Hunzinger (1915–2009) pays tribute to…
Friedrichshain
This tourist-geared private museum on the 3rd floor of a former warehouse offers an easily digestible multimedia chronicle of Germany's post-WWII history,…
Christopher Isherwood Apartment
Schöneberg
In 1929 the Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood moved to this pretty residential building from London, to escape the sexual oppression in England…
Historic Mitte
In times when many question the future of the EU, this exhibit works hard to make the case for a united Europe. Funded by the European Commission, you can…
Prenzlauer Berg
This 1893 neo-Gothic church was a hotbed of dissent in the final days of the GDR and thus a thorn in the side of the Stasi, which, as late as October 1989…
Berlin
In the 1920s, a quiet villa-studded colony south of the Tiergarten evolved into Berlin's embassy quarter. After WWII the obliterated area remained in a…
Mauer Mahnmal im Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus
Historic Mitte
This memorial installation by artist Ben Wagin runs along the original course of the Berlin Wall and consists of original segments, each painted with a…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
Under construction since 2013, the Humboldt Forum is scheduled to open in 2019 or 2020 as Berlin's new cultural quarter. The humongous building itself is…
Berlin
Just a few days after construction began on the Berlin Wall in August 1961, the 24-year-old tailor Günter Litfin became the first victim of the East…
Prenzlauer Berg
Triangular Kollwitzplatz was ground zero of Prenzlauer Berg gentrification. To pick up on the local vibe, linger with macchiato mamas and media daddies in…
Berlin
Escape the city bustle at this quiet, loft-style gallery where the Daimler corporation shares selections from its considerable collection of international…
Historic Mitte
Marking the transition from Unter den Linden to Museum Island, the Palace Bridge is considered among Berlin’s prettiest. Designed by Karl Friedrich…
Kreuzberg
Nicknamed Hungerharke (Hunger Rake), the Berlin Airlift Memorial right outside the former Tempelhof Airport honours those who participated in keeping the…
Berlin
Don’t be scared off by the word ‘museum’ – this place inside an old factory is a fun and educational playground for the pre-teen set to subtly teach…
Kreuzberg
Created in the 1880s, this charismatic square with its cobbled streets, old-time lanterns and octagonal public latrine looks virtually unchanged 140 years…
Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik Berlin
City West & Charlottenburg
If you are a fan of antique sculpture or simply enjoy looking at naked guys with missing noses or other body protrusions, make this small collection a…
Museumsinsel & Alexanderplatz
Commissioned by the East German government to celebrate Berlin's 750th birthday, the twee Nicholas Quarter is a half-hearted attempt at recreating the…
Friedhof Grosse Hamburger Strasse
Berlin
What looks like a small park was in fact Berlin’s first Jewish cemetery, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943. Some 2700 people were buried here between 1672…
Kreuzberg
Founded in 1975, the Künstlerhaus is an artistic sanctuary and creative cauldron for emerging artists from around the globe. In 2010 it moved into this…
Watchtower Erna-Berger-Strasse
Berlin
Imagine what it was like to be a Berlin Wall border guard when climbing up the iron ladder of one of the few remaining watchtowers. The octagonal…
Historic Mitte
Constrained by rigid building regulations, architect Frank Gehry had to transfer his trademark sculptural approach to the atrium of the Berlin…
Friedrichshain
This enchanting 1913 neo-baroque fountain consists of an arcade and a lusty cascade flanked by sculptures of frolicking turtles, frogs and characters from…
Kreuzberg
Right in the Spree River, near the Elsenbrücke bridge, this giant aluminium sculpture shows three bodies embracing and is meant to symbolise the joining…
