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Berlin is a city of wonderful museums. Our list of the best Berlin museums will help you not to get lost in a wide variety of art spaces. The program includes an underground bunker, Marlene Dietrich and the largest dinosaur skeleton.

museum island

In the bend of the Spree in Berlin there is a whole island on which there is a complex of five museums: the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum, the Old and New Museums and the Old National Gallery. Now here you can see a collection of papyri, the Pergamon altar, a bust of Nefertiti and other Egyptian, Greek and Roman relics. In the coming years, transitions between museums will be completed - this will turn the Museum Island into a single whole, which will allow you to see the entire history of the development of civilization.

Berlin History Museum

This museum has 23 thematic halls, which visually represent the entire history of the city from the moment of its foundation to the present. All information is presented in an interactive form using multimedia technology, which appeals to guests of all ages. Also attracting visitors is the fact that deep underground, under the museum building and nearby streets, there is a Cold War atomic bomb shelter. The corridors of the bunker and the atmosphere of a secret facility will not leave anyone indifferent.

Museum of computer games Computerspielemuseum

The Museum of Computer Games has a main permanent exhibition that tells the history of the development of computer technology and the entertainment industry in general. In addition, from time to time about 30 different international exhibitions take place here. The surroundings of the museum and its interactivity attract lovers of electronics, and the museum will also be of interest to fans of computer game characters.

German Historical Museum

The exposition of the German Historical Museum is located in two places: in an old baroque building on Unter der Linden and in a modern exhibition hall. Both buildings are connected to each other by an underground tunnel. The permanent exhibition has about 8,000 exhibits and represents almost two thousand years of the history of the German state. It should be noted that the German Historical Museum is one of the most visited in Germany.

German Technical Museum

By the amount of technology, this museum is the largest in Europe. Here are exhibits dedicated to scientific achievements from ancient times to the present: the first calculators, robots, airplanes, combines and cars, various devices, instruments and mechanisms that can not only be looked at, but also touched, twirled, and carried out experiments with them. Here you can see Foucault's pendulum and look through the camera obscura, and in the optics hall you can experience various optical illusions. From the German Technical Museum, not only children, but also adults will be delighted.

Berlin Art Gallery

The art gallery will impress all connoisseurs of art, because there is a huge collection of paintings by such great masters as Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rubens, Botticelli and many others. This is truly a treasure trove of world painting. In addition to the main exhibition, which has about 3,000 paintings, the gallery often hosts exhibitions of contemporary artists, designers, photographers, and in addition, the building also houses a library, an archive and an art school.

Jewish Museum

The building of the Jewish Museum, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, is made in the form of a curved line. The floors of the premises are inclined, and visitors, passing through the halls, feel the heaviness of the rise, which symbolizes all the difficulties of the life of the Jewish people. The exhibits of the exhibition are dedicated to the life and culture of the Jews: dishes, documents, clothing items and much more. Also of interest is the "Holocaust Tower" installation - a small space with high black walls and a small hole at the top instead of a roof, through which a piece of the sky can be seen.

Berlin Wall Museum Checkpoint Charlie

Now Checkpoint Charlie is just part of the Berlin Wall Museum, but from 1961 to 1990 it was a checkpoint for crossing from West to East Berlin. The Checkpoint separated the territories of the sectors of influence of the USA and the USSR, so now its windows show portraits of a Russian and an American soldier. In one of the houses standing nearby, there is the Museum of the History of the Berlin Wall, whose expositions are devoted to the events of those years, the international struggle for human rights, photographs of escapes and how the wall was destroyed.

Film and Television Museum

The Berlin Film Museum opened not so long ago, in 2000, but immediately gained numerous fans. The museum is divided into 13 halls, which are dedicated to the history of the development of German cinema: outstanding actors, directors and their films. Here you can touch the film, watch fragments of pre-war German films, see how modern special effects are created. An entire hall is dedicated to the great Marlene Dietrich and directors such as Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene and Leni Riefenstahl. As with many other Berlin museums, the exhibition space is multimedia and interactive, so you won't get bored browsing the exhibition.

Berlin Natural History Museum

The Natural History Museum in Berlin is famous for having the tallest original dinosaur skeleton at over 13m in height. It also houses one of the largest and oldest natural science collections in the world. The exhibits demonstrate the stages of development of the Universe, nature and man. In the halls there is a collection of meteorites and a workshop where you can see how animal models are created. Viewing the expositions is accompanied by the voices of birds and animals, the sounds of nature.

The Museum of European Cultures is part of the Museum Center Berlin-Dahlem. It was formed on the basis of the European collection of the Ethnological Museum and opened in 1999. After a renovation in 2011, the museum occupied a modern building in Dahlem designed by Bruno Paul.

The museum's collection, which has more than 275 thousand items, is one of the richest in the world. The collection reveals all aspects of everyday culture and traditional art of the peoples of Europe. This place is not just a museum in the usual sense, it is a cultural institution where intercultural interaction takes place. The museum has established itself as a place for international communication of specialists in various fields.

The museum promotes the development and continuation of artistic traditions and craft skills. For children and adults, workshops are held here, which give people the opportunity to learn more about traditional and modern art forms using original materials from the museum's collection.

Natural History Museum

The Museum of Natural History with an area of ​​about 4,000 square meters introduces visitors to the beautiful nature of the world, namely such sciences as zoology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology and geology. The museum houses a variety of animal species from around the globe, including numerous species of reptiles and fish. Speaking in numbers, the museum displays about 30 million zoological, mineralogical and paleontological specimens, including 10,000 type specimens. Here you can see meteorites, the largest piece of amber, stuffed animals and other fascinating items.

An impressive highlight of the museum is the Dinosaur Hall, which houses a 13-meter-high and 23-meter-long giraffatitan skeleton discovered in the early 20th century in Tanzania.

The museum was founded in 1810, and its collection began to grow in the 18th century.

Museum Island: Old National Gallery

The Berlin National Gallery was founded about a century and a half ago and has the richest art collection in Germany. The entire fund of the gallery is located in several separate buildings and is divided into temporary eras: in the Old National Gallery - art of the 19th century, in the New Gallery - of the 20th century, and exhibitions of contemporary art are located in the former building of the Hamburg station.

The Old National Gallery houses canvases from a wide variety of trends, from classicism to modernity, but it is best known for its chic collection of 19th-century impressionism. These are the works of Edouard Manet, one of the founders of impressionism, Paul Cezanne and many others.

During World War II, the gallery's foundation suffered greatly at the hands of the Nazis. Many canvases were irretrievably lost or could no longer be restored, but what is still kept in the museum should be seen by everyone, so all tourists visiting Berlin strive to visit the Old National Gallery.

Ethnological Museum in Dahlem

The Ethnological Museum in Berlin is part of the vast museum complex of the Museum Center Berlin-Dahlem. The museum's extensive collection makes it one of the largest in the world. It was founded in 1873 by Adolf Bastian.

Visitors to the museum can view more than one million exhibits showing the beauty and diversity of the pre-industrial world. Among them are unique and amazing artifacts from all over the world (mainly from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific region and South America) - traditional objects of worship, terracotta and bronze sculptures, masks, jewelry, musical instruments and much more. other. Each culture and geographic region has its own hall in the museum. In addition, there is a small museum created especially for children and a museum for the blind.

German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

The German-Russian Museum "Berlin-Karlshorst" is a museum that reflects the entire history of the Second World War. The museum is located in the building of the officers' club, in the Karlshorst district, in Berlin - the capital of Germany.

From 1967 to 1994, the building of the officers' club housed the Museum of the Complete and Unconditional Surrender of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. But later the museum was closed and the exhibits were not exhibited. And only in 1995 they decided to resume work as the German-Russian Museum "Berlin-Karlshorst".

The museum presents its permanent exhibition to visitors, as well as numerous events, such as annual meetings in honor of the Day of the Liberation of Germany from Nazism, discussions, films, musical events, readings, scientific conferences. The exhibits of the museum clearly demonstrate to visitors all the data on the war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945, and also reveal the history of Soviet-German relations before World War II.

Museum Brucke

Brucke Museum is a museum in Berlin, in the Dahlem district, which contains the richest collection of paintings of the expressionist movement of the early 20th century - Die Brucke (Bridge).

The museum is entirely dedicated to the art of the Die Brucke group of artists. Founded in 1905 by four young painters, this group subsequently had a tremendous impact on the development of Western art in the 20th century.

The museum showcases the birth and unique destiny of German Expressionism. It was opened to the public in 1967 and now has a collection of about 400 paintings and sculptures, as well as several thousand drawings, watercolors and engravings from all creative periods of all artists of the Die Brucke association.

Museum of Homosexuality

The Museum of Homosexuality, founded in 1985 by Andreas Sternweiler and Wolfgang Theis, is dedicated to the history of homosexuality and the LGBT movement in Germany and is located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin.

The idea of ​​creating a museum appeared in 1984, after the first thematic exhibition on the culture and life of homosexual men and women was held in Berlin, which was a huge success. So, a year later, through the efforts of activists, a museum was opened, the purpose of which is to destroy the one-sided negative idea about people of non-traditional sexual orientation and help develop a tolerant attitude towards them.

This museum is the only organization in the world that studies all aspects of homosexual life: history, culture and art, and, of course, everyday life. The museum currently has 127 exhibits, including temporary exhibitions showcasing magazines and newspapers, articles, posters, films and photographs, letters, costumes, and more. By visiting them, you will be able to learn the touching and harsh history of homosexuality over 200 years, with an emphasis on the gay culture of Berlin.

The museum also has a library with more than fifteen thousand thematic publications (mainly in German and English), available to everyone.

Museum of Decorative Arts

The Museum of Decorative Arts is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany. It possesses one of the most important collections in the field of decorative arts.

The museum is divided into two main parts: the Cultuforum and the Köpenick Castle. He collects works from post-antiquity to the present day. The museum fund covers all styles and eras in the history of art and includes shoes and costumes, carpets and tapestries, accessories and furniture, glass vessels, enamel, porcelain, silver and gold works, as well as achievements in modern crafts and object design. Most of the exhibits are incredibly valuable, many items were used in the church, the royal court and among representatives of the aristocracy.

Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts

The Museum of Decorative Arts is one of the oldest museums of its kind in Germany. Probably the most representative collection in the country of objects and examples of applied arts, made by various craftsmen, is gathered here. The premises of the museum are based in two places: in the Kulturforum and the Kopenick Castle.

The exhibits on display at the museum cover all styles and eras in the history of art, from post-antiquity to the present day. What is not here: fabrics and garments, tapestries, furniture, vessels made of glass, enamel, porcelain, silver and gold items. It is very interesting to follow how over time - from antiquity to the present - the ideas about the beauty and functionality of objects, reflected in the collection exhibits, have changed.

Many items exhibited here have a certain value. Church ministers gave something to the museum, something - representatives of the royal court and the aristocracy.

Otto Lilienthal Museum

When Otto Lilienthal was born in 1848, man had dreamed of learning to fly for centuries. However, no one succeeded, and Lilienthal's attempts are considered the first successful manned flights.

In his work, the scientist has always been guided by nature. After the engineer observed the flight of a white stork, he began to experiment with aerodynamics. In 1889 he published his results in The Flight of Birds as a Model for the Art of Aviation. More than ten years later, this book served as an aid to the Wright brothers in building the first aircraft engine.

Otto Lilienthal, however, became a victim of his passion. He died on August 10, 1896 from injuries sustained in a plane crash.

Today we can trace the life and stages of the aviation pioneer at the Otto Lilienthal Museum. Among the exhibits are photographs, models and models of various aircraft, as well as sketches and drawings according to which they were built, and personal items, letters and a photo archive will tell you about the life of an engineer.

Museum "German Guggenheim"

The German Guggenheim Museum is an art museum in Berlin. It is located on the first floor of the Deutsche Bank and is completely under his care.

The interior of the museum is designed in a minimalist style. In a modest gallery that occupies the corner of the first floor of the bank building, there is an exhibition space consisting of one room, measuring only 50 meters in length, 8 meters in width and 6 meters in height.

However, despite its small size, the Guggenheim has an important mission - to open contemporary artists to the world. Every year, each artist submits one work created specifically for the museum to the collection. Among the additions to the gallery's fund, photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, installations by Gerhard Richter and many others have already been noticed.

More than 140,000 visitors come here every year to enjoy German contemporary art.

Stasi Museum

The Stasi Museum is a scientific and memorial center concerning the political system of the former East Germany. It is located in the Lichtenberg area of ​​Berlin, in the former headquarters of the Stasi.

The central place in the exposition is occupied by the office and working premises of the former Minister of State Security, head of the Stasi, Erich Mielke. From here, in 1989, he was in charge of the Ministry of State Security. After the assault on January 15, 1990, the office was sealed and has survived to this day in its original state.

During its existence, the ministry carried out active ideological and political activities, the main goal of which was to preserve the revolutionary moods of the people, propagate the revolution, and also identify dissidents among the people. Much of the museum is devoted to this. Photographs, recordings, documents, even busts of ideologues are on display for visitors to see.

Berggruen Museum

The Berggruen Museum, founded in 1996, located in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg in the Stüler Barracks building, is the owner of one of the most valuable collections of art from the classical modern era.

The collection was given to the city by the famous collector Heinz Berggruen, who had been in exile for sixty years. The collection he has collected over the course of thirty years boasts works by such celebrities as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse and others.

In 2000, the collection was bought by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation for 253 million marks, although its real value was estimated by experts at 1.5 billion German marks.

Visitors to the museum will find more than a hundred stunning works by Picasso, 60 paintings by Paul Klee, 20 works by Henri Matisse and several of his famous silhouettes. In addition, here you can see the sculptural ensembles of Alberto Giacometti and some African-themed sculptures.

Museum Island: Old Museum

The Old Museum presents its collection of ancient art from Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece to visitors. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building built in 1830 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel to house the art collection of the Prussian royal family. After restoration in 1966, the museum has a permanent exhibition, which presents objects of ancient art.

The building was modeled on the Stoa located in Athens. The Ionic order decorates the columns of the main facade of the building, while the other three facades are made of brick and stone. The building rises on a pedestal, which gives it an imposing appearance. A staircase leads to the main entrance of the museum, decorated on both sides with equestrian statues by Albert Wolff, statues of the Lion Fighter and the Fighting Amazon. In the center, in front of the stairs, there is a granite vase by Christian Gottlieb Kantian.

Erotic Museum of Beata Uze

The Beata Uze Museum of Erotica, opened in 1996 by businesswoman Beata Uze, is one of the youngest museums in Berlin and the most popular in Europe. It is located in the western part of the city near the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church.

The founder of the museum, Beata Uze, a woman who made a career as a pilot and stuntman in the early forties of the 20th century, invented and founded the world's first sex shop a decade later. At the age of 76, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her erotic empire, Beate Uze fulfilled her dream and opened an erotic museum in Berlin, which today contains a huge collection of artifacts from the erotic history of mankind from antiquity to the present day.

The exposition of the museum has the richest collection of such exhibits in the world. Here you will see original Japanese and Chinese horizontal scroll paintings, Indian miniatures, images of Persian harem scenes, Indonesian fertility sculptures, African genital masks, European erotic drawings and paintings, as well as the first condoms and contraceptives and much more.

In addition, the museum has a cinema where old erotic films are constantly shown.

Museum "Bunker"

The bomb shelter museum with a capacity of about 2,500 people, known as the "Bunker", is located on 5 floors in 120 rooms. The height of the bunker is 18 meters, the thickness of the walls is 2 meters and 1000 square meters at the base.

The bunker was built in 1943 by the National Socialists for passengers of the German state railway during the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic. Two years later, the building was seized and converted into a military prison. Later, the building was both a textile warehouse, a warehouse for dried fruits, and a club for parties and discos. Since 2003, after the acquisition of the bunker by collector Christian Boros, it has been turned into a museum with its collections of contemporary art. The exhibition can be visited by prior arrangement. On the roof of the museum there is a penthouse built according to the project of the Berlin architectural bureau Realarchitektur.

Bauhaus Museum-Archive

The Design Museum in Berlin is dedicated to researching and presenting the history and influence of the Bauhaus, the most important school of architecture, design and art of the 20th century.

The current collections focus on the history of the school and all aspects of its work. The collection is housed in a building designed by Walter Gropius, the founder of this trend.

The collections of the Bauhaus Archive span various fields, providing a unique history for the school and allowing us to understand its accomplishments in the fields of art, education, architecture and design. The extensive collection includes research, design workshops, architectural plans and models, art photographs, documents, a photographic archive of Bauhaus history and a library.

Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie

The Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie was founded in 1963 by human rights activist Rainer Hildebrandt a year after the construction of the Berlin Wall. The museum presents the history of the Berlin Wall, an exhibition on the international struggle for human rights, where the main theme is the history of successful and failed escapes from East Berlin.

Checkpoint Charlie is the most famous checkpoint between the Soviet and American occupation zones, located in the northern part of the Kreuzberg quarter and operated only from west to east during the period 1960-1990. Here, conflicts constantly arose between the former allies, and in October 1961, tanks stood in full combat readiness on both sides of the checkpoint for several days.

The museum, located in one of the neighboring houses, will present to your attention the whole variety of devices for surveillance, espionage and the protection of the Iron Curtain, however, devices for organizing an escape from the "socialist paradise" are also enough here.

Also on Friedrichstrasse you can visit a photo exhibition dedicated to the history of the Checkpoint Charlie checkpoint, which is accompanied not only by German, but also by Russian comments and is held in the open air.

Museum of Children's Creativity

By creating a museum of children's creativity, the initiators wanted to give courage to children and give them the opportunity to create something with their own hands, which they can be proud of. children - with children - for children.

The initiators of the creation of the museum, Nina Vlady and her friends, created an international forum based on the museum, for artistically gifted and interested young people, which opens the door to the cultures of the world and promotes understanding of human interaction. They want to convey the creative power of children and their artistic sources of expression for everything. The principle of the museum is "from children - with children - for children". From various institutions around the world, children are invited to submit their work - paintings, poems, prose, photographs, scores, videos - any art form is possible. The children's art gallery is very diverse and expressiveness.

Museum Island: Egyptian Museum Berlin

The Egyptian Museum arose in the 18th century from private collections of art of the Prussian kings. Alexander von Humboldt recommended that a unified collection fund be created where all antiquities would be stored, and this first happened in Berlin in 1828. After the Second World War, during which the museum was badly damaged, it was divided between East and West Berlin and reunited only after the reunification of Germany.

The Egyptian Museum owns one of the world's most important collections of ancient Egyptian art.

Thanks to them, mainly dating back to the time of King Akhenaten - around 1340 BC, the museum has achieved worldwide fame. Famous works such as the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the portrait of Queen Tia and the famous "Berlin Green Head" also belong to the museum's collection. The impressively rich fund of the Egyptian Museum includes masterpieces belonging to different eras of Ancient Egypt: statues, reliefs, as well as minor works of architecture from different periods of time of Ancient Egypt: from 4000 BC to the Roman period.

Museum Island: Bode Museum

The Bode Museum outwardly differs markedly from the "neighbors" located on the Museum Island. Designed in the neo-baroque style by Ernst von Ine, it protrudes like a dome above the surface of the water and is seen as a small island connected to the city through two bridges.

Today the museum owns three main collections: sculpture, numismatic art and a collection of Byzantine art dating from the Middle Ages and Modern Times. Of course, the Mint Room deserves special attention, which stores coins minted from the 7th century BC to the 21st century and numbering more than 4,000 different copies.

All expositions are made in the spirit of private collections of the big bourgeoisie and fit very harmoniously into the general interior of the museum in such a way that you want to look not only at the exhibits, but also at the environment surrounding them. Marble arches, fireplaces, portals, richly decorated staircases and painted ceilings adjoin art objects.

German Technical Museum

The German Technical Museum, opened in 1983 and located in the building of the former depot, where the major railway station Anhalter Bahnhof was located, received its modern name only in 1996. Every year it is visited by about 600 thousand visitors interested in the achievements of technology and natural sciences.

The exposition of the museum includes many departments, including the Museum of Sugar Production, the Department of the History of Development and the Emergence of the First Computers, as well as a department demonstrating the models and works of the creator of the first computer, Konrad Zuse.

Here you can not only see exhibits of automobile, air, railway transport, shipbuilding, communications and communications equipment, printing equipment, textile equipment, but also, by pressing the buttons that almost every stand has, set parts of the exposition in motion: for example, take part in oil refining at a mini-oil refinery or turn the turbines of the liner and sit at its helm, visiting the most important, largest and most impressive of all the museum's aviation halls.

Museum of Prehistory and Early History

The Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Berlin has been located on the Museum Island since 2009. Previously (in 1960-2009) it was located in Charlottenburg Castle. The museum was founded in 1930 and includes archaeological finds by Heinrich Schliemann and Rudolf Virchow.

The museum presents exhibits of various eras - from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages. The entire collection is divided into separate rooms. Here are exhibited household items of Neanderthals, finds from the ancient city of Troy, items made of precious metals dating back to the Middle Ages. The museum also has a library with more than 50 thousand books.

Kaethe Kollwitz Museum

Käthe Kollwitz is a German artist, graphic artist and sculptor, a prominent figure in German realism in the first half of the 20th century. The Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin opened in 1986 and now owns one of the largest collections of the artist's works.

In her works, full of strength and passion, the eternal troubles of mankind are presented without embellishment - poverty, hunger, war. Currently, the museum displays more than 200 works by Käthe Kollwitz, including engravings, drawings, posters, sculptures, lithographs, self-portraits and other works from the famous series "Rise of the Weavers", "Peasant War", "Death".

The museum holds special exhibitions approximately twice a year.

lipstick museum

The Lipstick Museum, recently opened in Berlin, is a whole cultural complex dedicated entirely to this age-old attribute of women's cosmetics, as well as everything that surrounds it. The initiator of the opening of such a museum was Rene Koch, a German cosmetologist and makeup artist who won many awards from the beauty industry.

Koch's interest in collecting varieties of lipstick stems primarily from his profession. This allowed Koch to replenish the collection with more and more new items. The history of the emergence and subsequent development of lipstick is amazing. The emergence of its prototype is associated with ancient Egypt. Representatives of the weaker sex in those days used red soil to tint their lips. And lipstick, in its usual form, first appeared in the 19th century, but was inconvenient to use, as it had a very solid composition and was simply wrapped in paper. Only in 1920, a convenient case appears, allowing you to put forward and push lipstick.

The first in the Rene Koch collection was the light pink lipstick Hildegard Knef, a famous German actress. Over time, the collection was replenished with hundreds of lipsticks from around the world. Also among them you can see such unique things as a cosmetic set from Japan of the XVIII century, or an art deco lipstick case (1925), made of enamel, covered with gold and precious stones. All this amazing collection will tell you the story of this handbag permanent resident. You will also see 125 celebrity lip prints (Mireille Mathieu, Utte Lemper, Bonnie Tyler) showcasing the trendy shades of each season.

Museum Island: Antique Collection of Berlin

The antique collection is one of the parts of the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, located on the Museum Island. However, the Collection is not wholly owned by the Pergamon Museum, but is divided, in turn, into two more parts, the second of which is under the care of the Old National Gallery.

The collection of the Antique Collection itself appeared thanks to collectors collecting classical antiquities, and later, in 1698, the collection of a Roman archaeologist joined them, after which the Collection begins the official chronology of its history.

Among the exhibits, visitors are offered sculptures, profiles and busts by ancient Greek and Roman masters, various mosaics that decorated temples, coins, jewelry, household items, as well as clay tablets and papyri, indicating the presence of writing at that time.

Sugar Museum

The Sugar Museum in Berlin, opened more than 100 years ago together with the Institute of Sugar Industry, is the very first "sweet" museum in the world, now part of the German Technical Museum.

The path to the museum with an exhibition area of ​​450 square meters goes along a marble-decorated staircase through a four-story tower 33 meters high, on top of which there is a sundial.

The museum exposition has seven thematic halls: Sugarcane, Slavery, Sugar production, Alcohol and sugar, Sugar in the era of colonization, Sugar beets in Prussia, A world without sugar.

The museum will introduce you to the technological process of sugar production, tools that were used in different eras. The most valuable exhibits of the museum are a three-roll mill brought from Bolivia, as well as fragments of a medieval mill found during excavations. In addition, the museum has a separate exhibition of various forms and packaging used by the manufacturers of this product.

Jewish Museum in Berlin

The Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened on September 9, 2001, located in the Kreuzberg district on Lindenstrasse, is the largest museum in Europe dedicated to two millennia of the history of the Jewish people in Germany.

Before Hitler came to power in Germany, there was a museum that tells about the life of Jews in the country, which lasted only 5 years - the events of Kristallnacht served as the reason for its closure.

The current museum includes two buildings connected by an underground passage: the old building of the Kollegienhaus - the Supreme Court of Berlin, built in the baroque style, and the new one - built by the architect Daniel Libeskind, reminiscent of the Star of David in its design. The floors of the museum have a slope - passing through them, visitors feel heaviness, which constantly reminds of the difficult fate of the Jewish people.

The history exhibition of the museum will tell you about the difficult fate of the Jews of Germany, the central theme of which is the story of the flight, exile, new beginning and extermination of German Jews.

The gloomy tower of the Holocaust, crowned with a piece of sky and the Garden of Exile, where the land that was brought here from Israel is kept, will not leave anyone indifferent.

Museum Hamburger Bahnhov

The museum and galleries themselves already keep a certain history, and if they are in a place that has its own destiny, then visiting it is doubly pleasant.

The original building of the Hamburger Bahnchow Museum was the Berlin railway station and served as the starting point for the Berlin-Hamburg train. But then the railway branch was rebuilt, the train no longer went along the designated track, and the need for the station disappeared. The building was not used from 1884 until 1906. Since 1906, the station has been used as a railway museum. Various devices used in work on the railway tracks, unusual technical devices, as well as locomotives and trains were exhibited here. The station served as such until 1987, when the Berlin Senate decided to convert it into the Museum of Modern Art.

Now there are concentrated works related, for the most part, to the 20th century. These are the works of Paul McCartney, Jason Rhodes, David Weiss and others. The paintings are complemented by various installations and cinematic spaces, which broadcast author's full-length and short films.

Museum of the GDR

The GDR Museum is an interactive museum in the center of Berlin. Its exposition is located in the former government district of East Germany, right on the Spree River, opposite the Berlin Cathedral. The museum exhibition tells about the daily life of the inhabitants of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). For some visitors, the museum is a curiosity and exotic that was not possible to see before, while for others it is the recent past, similar to family album photos. The exposition is called: "Life and weekdays of the departed state."

The museum was opened on July 15, 2006 as a private museum. This fact is unusual for Germany, because all the museums here are funded by the state. All museum expositions can be not only viewed, but also touched, because they are ordinary things - backpacks, diaries and other items, of which there are more than 10 thousand. They were brought here by the GDR members themselves to make the museum interactive. The museum exposition is divided into 17 themes: youth, housing, food, etc., and in some rooms of the museum the apartments of that time with all the furnishings are completely recreated.

Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments

A collection of over 800 instruments from the 16th century to this day is housed in the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments, housed in the Kultuforum in the gleaming golden Philharmonic building.

The collection includes a portable harpsichord once owned by Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia, flutes from the collection of Frederick the Great and Benjamin Franklin's glass accordion, baroque wind instruments, synthesizer precursors and many other rare antique instruments.

Visitors can listen to all these treasures and learn about their history while listening to the museum's multimedia terminals.

Also located here is the Institute of Musical Research, a specialized library and a workshop where instruments are made and restored.

Every Thursday and Saturday concerts are held here, the money from which goes to the needs of the museum. Usually at such concerts the organ shines with its playing. Made from 1228 pipes, 175 plugs and 43 pistons, it is the largest in Europe. This organ is intended to accompany silent films in cinemas, but such a curiosity is now available to the average listener.

Asian Art Museum Dahlem

The Asian Art Museum is part of a huge museum complex located in Dahlem, in the south of Berlin. The collection, which contains at least twenty thousand objects of ancient Asian art, makes the museum one of the largest in the world in this area. It was formed in December 2006 from the Museum of Art of India and the Museum of East Asian Art.

Thanks to the permanent exhibition of the museum, visitors can see the beauty and diversity of Asian culture. The objects date back to the period from the III millennium BC. to the present day. Particular emphasis is placed on sculpture - stone, bronze, ceramic, as well as frescoes. In addition, textiles from Buddhist religious complexes on the northern part of the Silk Road, porcelain, Indian miniature painting, precious items from the Islamic period of the Great Moghuls, ritual sculpture from Nepal and much more are exhibited here. In the courtyard of the museum there is a stone copy of the eastern gate of the famous stupa in Sanchi.

Museum of Prints and Drawings

The Museum of Prints and Drawings is the largest collection of graphics in Germany and one of the four most important in the world. It consists of over 550,000 graphic works and 110,000 drawings in watercolor, pastels and oils. The museum includes works by major artists ranging from Sandro Botticelli and Albrecht Dürer to Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Rembrandt.

Remarkably, the collections in the museum are not permanent, but only as temporary exhibitions. Under the influence of temperature, moisture and sunlight, the works fade, the sheets become brittle, and then it becomes impossible to restore the picture. Therefore, they spend most of their time in specially equipped storage facilities, where the required level of humidity and temperature is maintained. This way the artworks are protected.

In addition to exhibitions, the museum conducts an active research activity, which consists in the analysis of handwritten texts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, drawings and sketches, as well as the authenticity of works of art.

German Historical Museum

The German Historical Museum tells about the history of Germany. And he calls himself "a place of enlightenment and understanding of the common history of Germans and Europeans."

Throughout its history, the Historical Museum has been repeatedly destroyed and reconstructed, until, finally, it opened its doors to everyone with a rich collection of works of art.

The permanent exhibition of the museum is located on an area exceeding 8 thousand square meters. About 70 thousand household items, 45 thousand items of national clothes, toys, furniture, jewelry, uniforms, flags and banners, as well as a rich photo archive and film library coexist here.

The museum has a library with a total fund of 225 thousand books, among which there are also the rarest copies. The cinema hall of the museum is designed for 160 people and broadcasts historical films and retrospectives. An integral part of the museum are also temporary exhibitions, which are held regularly.

Museum Island: Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum was built according to sketches by Alfred Messel Ludwig Hoffmann Switch during the years 1910-1930. The museum building housed significant finds from the excavations, including the frieze of the Pergamon Altar. However, the unreliable foundation of the building soon led to damage to the building, so it had to be demolished before the start of the First World War.

The modern, larger Pergamon Museum was conceived as three wings - three museums: the Collection of Classical Antiquities, the Middle East, and the Museum of Islamic Art. By acquiring priceless pearls of archeology - the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate from Miletus, the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Road - the museum has achieved worldwide recognition. And in 2011, he acquired another curiosity - the panorama of Pergamum, which creates the full effect of presence. In a room 24 meters high and 103 meters long, the life of the ancient inhabitants of Pergamon was completely reconstructed - a lively trade in the market, a library can be seen in the distance, the townspeople are walking. Impressions are added by various special effects: sunset and sunrise, the rumble of the street, people's talk.

Memorial Museum "Hoenschönhausen"

The Hohenschoenhausen Memorial Museum is located in the building where, after the end of World War II, there was first a Soviet special camp, and then the main remand prison in the GDR for the preliminary detention of suspects in political crimes.

Thousands of political prisoners were kept in custody here, almost all well-known representatives of the East German opposition, dissidents, etc. visited here. But for the most part, among the prisoners were people who were simply trying or about to escape through the Berlin Wall to the West, accomplices of the fugitives and those who applied for permission to leave the country. Since most of the building and furnishings have been preserved almost intact, the memorial provides a very accurate picture of the prison regime in the GDR, and visitors have a unique chance to understand what were the conditions of detention and methods of punishment in relation to political criminals in the GDR.

In 1992, the prison was recognized as a historical monument, and in 1994 it opened its doors to visitors for the first time. In July 2000, the Memorial Museum received the official status of an independent public foundation. Exhibitions, expositions, meetings dedicated to the topic of political repressions are regularly held here.

Both an independent inspection of the memorial and group tours with guides (by prior arrangement) are possible.

Allied Museum

The permanent exhibition of the Allied Museum, which used to be an American base, is devoted to the dramatic history of Berlin after the end of World War II and the complex relationship of the allied forces that entered into a confrontation. The conflict between the Soviet Union and the Western victorious states arose because of the impossibility of deciding the fate of Germany.

Museum exhibits, including documents, photographs, newspapers, plans and maps of Berlin with zones of occupation, tell a story full of tragedy and suspicion.

In the courtyard of the museum you can see a British aircraft, as well as part of the French train. Not far from the museum is an allegorical sculptural composition dedicated to the destruction of the Berlin Wall - five free horses jump over the remains of the wall.

Along with the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions are aimed at revealing a number of topical topics. Watching a documentary and a tour will make visiting the museum even more interesting.

Museum Island: New Museum

Initially, the New Museum was conceived as a continuation of the Old one, since there were so many exhibits that they simply did not fit in one building, but over time, the New Museum became an independent part of the Museum Island.

The museum fund had a large collection of plaster casts, artifacts of Ancient Egypt, Ethnographic collections, as well as various paintings and engravings, but after the war the number of exhibits was significantly replenished, including the pearl of the New Museum - the bust of Queen Nefertiti.

Visitors will be interested to know that the museum is famous not only for its antiquities, but also for the technologies used in the construction of the building. Thanks to the beginning of the industrialization period, during the construction, for the first time in Berlin, a steam engine was used, which was used to drive piles into the ground. From this, the building still has a solid foundation, despite the close proximity of the river and washing out.

Breen Museum

The Breen Museum is located in Berlin opposite Charlottenburg Castle. The museum specializes in interior design of the late 19th - early 20th century (about fifty years). These are Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalist styles.

The entire ground floor is occupied by an exhibition of arts and crafts art nouveau and art deco, from vases by Emile Galle and furniture by Hector Guimard to a rich collection of porcelain - Berlin, Meissen, Sevres. On the second floor, mannered paintings and graphics by artists of the Berlin Art Nouveau are presented - also only for the interior. On the third floor, two rooms are reserved for personal exhibitions of the Belgian Art Nouveau master Anri van de Velde and the brilliant Josef Hoffmann, one of the leaders of the Viennese Jugendstil.

The rest of the gallery space hosts various thematic exhibitions.

Sugar Museum in Berlin

The Sugar Museum in Berlin was opened in 1904. The museum building is divided into seven different thematic halls. These are sugar cane, sugar production, slavery, alcohol and sugar, Sugar beets in Prussia, sugar in the era of colonization, a world without sugar. In the museum you can learn about the production of sugar, see the equipment for its production.

India is considered the birthplace of sugar. In different countries it was mined in different ways. For example, the Chinese made sugar from sorghum, the Canadians from maple sap, and the Egyptians from beans. It was in India that they began to make sugar from cane. And in Berlin, a German scientist found sugar crystals in beets, so sugar began to be made from beets too.

In the Sugar Museum you can get acquainted with the production of sugar, learn about its history. See manufacturing equipment and packaging. You can also see different types of sugar, as it can be solid, free-flowing, chopped, brown, candy. Visitors will be able to see many interesting things, for example, sugar specimens from around the world, tools used in ancient times, and modern wrappers and packaging for Sahara. On Sundays, craftsmen make various interesting objects and figurines from sugar. The museum has a relatively small area, 450 square meters. To enter the museum, you need to go through a high tower with 33 steps.

photography museum

The Museum of Photography in Berlin opened in 2004, and lovers of this art from all over the world immediately began to flock to it.

The museum's collection occupies as much as 2,000 square meters in the Stadtmuseum Berlin. The museum is organized by the Helmut Newton Foundation, located on the two lower floors, presenting a large number of photographs, including Newton's work, and the Photographic Collection of the Art Library. In the museum you can see many beautiful photographs of world-famous photographers.

Sights of Berlin

Berlin's most famous museum - and undoubtedly one of the most popular in Germany with over a million visitors a year. The magnificent Pergamon Museum is located in the city center on Museum Island. Opened in 1930 to house a collection of full-scale reconstructions of ancient monumental buildings, the museum is indeed a series of unique museums under one roof, including antiquities collections, the Museum of the Middle East and the Museum of Islamic Art. The main attraction of the museum, of course, is the Pergamon Altar. Considered one of the wonders of the ancient world, this massive monument dedicated to Zeus and Athena was erected in the ancient city of Pergamon in Turkey around 180 BC. Other important exhibits include examples of Hellenistic architecture, including the Roman Market Gate at Miletus from 165 BC. e. and restored 3rd century BC. e. mosaic floor. Also of interest are examples of Neo-Babylonian architecture from the time of Nebuchadnezzar II, including the monumental Ishtar Gate and part of the throne room façade from Babylon. The most valuable exhibit of the Museum of Islamic Art is the 8th century façade of Mshatt Castle from Jordan.

2. Egyptian Museum (Egyptian Museum of Berlin)

The Egyptian Museum in Berlin - the most important part of the new museum on Museum Island - includes many important historical artifacts from Egypt, including an impressive papyrus collection. Also on display are some 1,500 works of art and culture from 5000 B.C. e. before 300 AD e., including the limestone head of Queen Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, from about 1350 BC. e., and a family altar depicting Nefertiti and Akhenaten with three of their six daughters. Other highlights include portraits, masks, and tombstones by a royal sculptor named Buck and his wife. Also of note are works from the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BC. e., including a portrait of a married couple. The new museum is also home to a museum of prehistoric and early history and exhibits from the collection of classical antiquities.

3. The Dahlem Museum Complex

The Dahlem Museum Complex (Dahlem Museum) is home to the most important collections of non-European artefacts and treasures, as well as the world's largest collection of European arts and crafts and folk art from many other cultures. The ethnographic museum presents a collection of over 400,000 items. The Asian Art Museum exhibits numerous works of art from China, Korea and Japan dating back to 3000 BC. e. to the present day, including bronzes, ceramics, paintings and sculptures. Of particular note are 63 Chinese bronze mirrors dating from the 6th to 9th centuries, and a 17th century Chinese emperor's throne. Finally, the Museum of European Cultures has an impressive collection of 280,000 ethnographic exhibits from all over Europe. Highlights include a collection of textiles, photographs, and prints, as well as exhibits focused on childhood, youth culture, and religion. The Dahlem Museum Complex is an amazing landmark of Berlin.

4. The German Museum of Technology (The German Museum of Technology)

Opened in 1983, the German Museum of Technology or the German Technical Museum Berlin hosts numerous excellent permanent exhibitions related to the country's role as an industrial power in Europe and the world. Highlights include a fascinating look at the Industrial Revolution, with a reconstructed workshop and equipment from the country's first factories. During the tour of the museum, you will see an excellent collection of various bicycles, horse-drawn carts, motorcycles and cars, while the big machines are in the rail transport segment, which includes locomotives and wagons from 1843 to the present. The museum is also known for its excellent collection of aviation, from gliders and aircraft engines, both military and civilian, to individual aircraft.

5. Berlin Art Gallery (The Gemäldegalerie)

The Berlin Art Gallery houses the main collection of the Berlin State Museum and is highly regarded for its superb collection of European paintings from the Middle Ages to the neoclassical era. The core of this impressive gallery is the former royal collection, greatly enlarged in the 20th century. Highlights include Dutch and Flemish painting, in particular works by Rembrandt, Bosch, Van Dyck and Rubens. French painting is represented by works by Poussin, landscapes by Claude Lorrain, and paintings by Georges de la Tour, while German masterpieces are represented by works by Dürer, including a young woman from Vienna and the famous portraits of Hieronymus Bosch and Jacob Mouffel. As well as countries: Spain (El Greco and Goya), England (Gainsborough and Reynolds), and Italy (Bellini).

6. Berlin Museum of Applied Arts (The Museum of Applied Arts)

The Berlin Museum of Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbemuseum) was founded in 1867 and remains one of the most important and most visited art galleries in Berlin. The museum presents all areas of European applied art from the early Middle Ages to the present day. These are products made of ceramics, porcelain, glass, bronze, gold, enamel and the work of Byzantine jewelers, along with silver vessels, furniture, clocks, textiles, embroidery, decorative carpets, art nouveau and art deco works.

7. New National Gallery (The New National Gallery)

The new National Gallery is housed in a modernist glass and steel building erected in 1968, consisting of a square hall and a pleasant terrace containing a number of sculptures by Alexander Calder and Henry Moore. The collection consists of numerous paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 19th and 20th centuries, including realists, the German School in Rome, French and German Impressionists, Expressionists and Surrealists, as well as a good selection of American paintings. Among the most significant artists are Adolf von Menzel, Manet, Auguste Renoir, Edvard Munch and Max Ernst.

8. Old National Gallery (The Old National Gallery)

The museum building, originally built as a hall for receptions and special occasions, in 1876 acquired the Old National Gallery in Berlin. The building resembles a Corinthian temple, located on a high plinth with a wide staircase. The entrance to the museum is preceded by a large bronze equestrian statue of Friedrich Wilhelm IV from 1886, along with prominent female figures. The basis of the collection - contains examples from the neoclassical and romantic movement, as well as French impressionists such as Manet and Monet. Numerous German artworks and sculptures are also well represented.

9. Jewish Museum in Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin)

One of the largest museums of its kind in Europe and certainly one of the most interesting from an architectural point of view. The Jewish Museum in Berlin includes many interesting exhibits focusing on German-Jewish history and culture over a period of approximately 2000 years. The collection includes rare documents, religious objects, paintings, photographs and sculptures, as well as many rare books, scripts, and textiles. Of particular note is the museum's collection relating to Jewish life in the medieval settlements along the Rhine, as well as the Baroque period.

10. Museum of the group "Bridge" (Brücke Museum)

In the Berlin district of Grunewald, in a large wooded city park, is located the most modest museum in Berlin - the Brücke Museum or the Museum of the "Most" group. It was built in 1967 as a gallery and archive for the work of a group of expressionist artists founded in Dresden in 1905 known as "The Bridge". The initiative to create the museum came from the artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, one of the founders of the group whose work is exhibited in the museum.

The museum displays numerous paintings, watercolors, drawings and sculptures by fellow members of the group: Erich Haeckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Müller, Max Pechstein. The museum also contains works by other artists, including Otto Herbig, Max Kaus and Emil Nolde.

There is no such place where you could not get by public transport. Having traveled, for example, along the entire route number 29 from Grunewald (Grunewald), a rich and respectable area, to the final stop in one of the poorest areas of Berlin, you can observe how the face of the city is changing, it. Grunewald is an area of ​​rich villas, consulates, various houses of creativity. This is an area of ​​the respectable bourgeoisie. But, passing by museums, theaters, modern skyscrapers, you gradually find yourself in an area where the majority of the population are immigrants. Here you will hear foreign speech more often than German. Traveling along the entire route from one final stop to another, you can observe a peculiar cut of the social life of modern Berlin.

Charming double-decker buses run around the city around the clock according to their routes and schedules. A trip on such a bus is a great opportunity to get the first general impression of Berlin without leaving the bus.

Another very interesting bus route in Berlin is the so-called “weave” - route number 100. Having bought a bus ticket and driving along the entire route, you will see almost all the historical sights of Berlin that guidebooks advise you to see.

You will see the sights of Berlin: the presidential residence - Bellevue Palace, the building, Unter der Liden Street, the palaces of the Prussian kings, the Humboldt University, the opera house, the cathedral, the television tower. In the German capital, you can get off the bus at any stop, take a closer look at those sights of Berlin that especially attracted your attention, and then continue your trip around the city again. A one-way ticket on any mode of transport is valid for two hours. I assure you, it is very practical and convenient. Be sure to take advantage of this opportunity.

Numerous river buses run along the river Spree. They go around the Island of Museums from two sides. The view from the water of the ancient Prussian capital is impressive. Sometimes, the prevailing image of Berlin suddenly changes, and you notice an unexpected resemblance either to Venice, the pearl, or to our St. Petersburg. A river walk will show you that the whole city is cut by rivers and canals, and numerous bridges and small bridges, like stitches in sewing, hold the fabric of the city together. You can imagine yourself as a special royal blood and take a walk along the river from Berlin's landmark - the 12th century Charlottenburg Palace, the former summer residence of the wife of Elector Frederick III, heading into the city center and admiring the magnificent views. Such a walk, lasting an hour and a half, will give you great, incomparable pleasure.

The area around Savignyplatz is an area whose development began in the 10s. Successful engineers, doctors, lawyers, representatives of the bourgeoisie began to settle here, running away from the smoke of factories and factories on the one hand, and not wanting to coexist with snobs from palaces, ministries and barracks, on the other. Their elegant houses, decorated with stucco, columns and caryatids, expressed their self-esteem, spoke directly about their prosperity and well-being. Gradually, it was here that the intellectual and cultural life of the city began to move. The first cinema in the city appeared here. The first metro line also began to operate here. A new opera house was also built here. A large number of excellent tenement houses attracted people associated with art here. This prevailing spirit of enlightened bourgeoisism was not disturbed even by the changes that took place in Berlin in the sphere of politics. Artists continue to be attracted to the area. When an international film festival was held in Berlin, all the restaurants in the area were full of people whose belonging to this event could be identified by festival bags. And this is despite the fact that the festival events were held in a completely different part of the city.

Cultural life is in full swing in Berlin. It hosts both traditional academic events, as well as alternative and simply entertaining ones. Choice for every taste! You can familiarize yourself with the events, their program and timing by reading the full program for the next two weeks, which is published in Zitty and Tip magazines. You will find all the information you need there.

Museums in Berlin are full of unique masterpieces of world art. But, surprisingly, there are quite a few visitors in museums. But this is only a plus for the tourist. You have the opportunity to calmly walk around all the halls and calmly enjoy the contemplation of masterpieces. Almost all museums are closed on Monday, but don't let that fact discourage you. You have the opportunity to go to the Grunewald area, which is located quite far from the center. Here, among the greenery of the park, you will see the one-story building of the Brücke Museum. If you are close to expressionist painting, you should definitely get here. The Brücke Museum is a museum of German Expressionist artists who were part of the Bridge association. The works of Kirchner, Schmidt-Rotluff and Pechstein will amaze you with their expressiveness, riot of colors, and the power of the stroke.

Near Potsdamerplatz there are several museums, a collection of engravings and an art library. Here is the Church of St. Matthew, the Berlin Philharmonic. On the other side of the street you will see the largest public library in Europe. No wonder this place is called “Forum of Culture”. If you go to the Museum of Musical Instruments, here you can not only look at ancient and rare musical instruments, but also listen to their sound. Each visitor is given headphones in which these ancient musical instruments sound.

The state art gallery contains paintings by such old masters as Cranach, Botticelli, Bosch, Vermeer. In the New National Gallery you can admire the masterpieces of modernism. The Museum of Applied Arts is famous for its exhibits, showcasing both simple and complex crafts. You can spend the whole day enjoying the masterpieces of world culture, and in the evening attend a concert in one of the best concert halls in the world.

Now it is difficult to imagine that after the end of the war, this place was only a pile of stones instead of buildings. Only two houses survived - the drinking house "Hut" and the remains of the Grand Hotel "Esplanade", more precisely, only its hall. Now it is closed with a glass cap and included in one of the high-rise buildings. And before, many famous people stayed at the Esplanade Grand Hotel, such as, for example, Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo. Life was in full swing around. In 1961, the Berlin Wall passed right through Potsdamerplatz. And this place immediately turned into a kind of dead end with a huge wasteland near the wall. Even the buildings of the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Gallery and the State Library built here could not change this impression. Only with the beginning of the construction of the “Forum of Culture”, which began shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, did its former glory return to this place. In the nineties, a huge rack unfolded here. It was called the main construction site in Europe. Now it is already impossible to imagine that once, and not so long ago, there was a wasteland in this place, where they sold contraband cigarettes, punks spent the night, there was a tent of a circus tent.

The island of museums, which goes around two branches of the Spree, is recognized by UNESCO as part of the world cultural heritage. You can drive around the island by car, or you can admire it from the elevated metro car. Sometimes the train passes houses so close that you can even see some of the museum exhibits. Nabokov described this in his work "The Gift", and this is not an exaggeration of the great writer. Trains in Berlin can be called the fastest way to travel. Since all routes pass along high flyovers, you have a great opportunity to view all the sights of Berlin from the window of the car.

If you spend your holidays in Germany, be sure to visit the museums of Berlin. Here you will get acquainted with the history of the country, learn many interesting facts and get a lot of impressions. In this article, we will talk about the most significant attractions that are worth visiting in this wonderful city.

Museum Island in Berlin

This unique museum complex is under the protection of UNESCO. It includes five world famous museums:

• Pergamon Museum.
• Bode Museum.
• Old museum.
• New Museum.
• Old National Gallery.

Here you can see the values ​​that are not without reason attributed to the world heritage. This is a bust of the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate, a collection of ancient scrolls and much more.

Berlin's museums on Museum Island have a clear purpose. They try to show the history of the development of mankind from primitive times to the present day. Interestingly, the construction of the complex has not yet been completed, so its final version can only be seen in 2028.

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Monumental masterpieces of architecture are carefully stored here, as well as three famous museum collections:

• Antique art.
• Islamic art.
• Front Asia.

Unique exhibits of the 6th-19th centuries, presented to the public, introduce the history of world art.

If you want to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of Pergamon, then dedicate a whole day to this. Start with an exhibition of ancient art, the pearl of which is the Pergamon Altar, created in the second century BC. No less interesting will be the inspection of the Gates of the Milensky market, created in the first century by Roman architects.

Exhibits from ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia and Syria are presented in the collection of the arts of Western Asia. The most famous are the Procession Road and the Ishtar Gate. In total, there are more than 270 thousand of the most interesting antiquities.

You can see valuable artifacts from the 7th-11th centuries in the collection of Islamic art. For example, a stone frieze that adorned the Mshatta Palace in the 8th century or the Allep Room of the 17th century.

Bode Museum

This complex is located in the northwest of Museum Island. Here you can see:

• Sculpture collection.
• Museum of Byzantine Art.
• Coin office.

All these expositions are very popular among residents and guests of the German capital.

A beautiful symmetrical building with an area of ​​6 thousand meters was built at the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the idea of ​​Emperor Frederick III. His idea was that anyone could see the collections of exhibits belonging to the royal family.

The interior rooms of the building are real works of art. Each of them is made in the style of a certain era. Thus, the Museum of Byzantine Art tells about the life of the Western Roman and Byzantine Empire in the period from the 3rd to the 15th century. Here you can see amazing sculptures, ancient sarcophagi, ancient Egyptian ritual objects and Byzantine mosaic icons.

The collection of sculpture is a huge collection of masterpieces created by the hands of European masters, from the Middle Ages to the 18th century.

More than 500 thousand exhibits are exhibited in the coin office. This is the largest collection of coins in the world.

Jewish Museum

If you are interested in the history of the Jewish community in Germany, be sure to visit this exhibition. Here you will learn the biography of famous representatives of the ancient people who left their mark on German history. You will also be told about the role of Jewish businessmen who influenced the development

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is famous for its main attraction - the Holocaust Tower, as well as the Garden of Exile and Emigration. When examining it, one should take into account what a strong impression it makes on visitors (caretakers and guides often provide first aid to tourists).

Natural History Museum

The area of ​​this largest European museum is approximately 4 thousand meters. The building was built at the beginning of the 19th century, but after the Second World War it had to be reconstructed due to severe damage. The exhibition is currently divided into three parts:

• Mineralogy.
• Zoology.
• Paleontology.

The Natural History Museum (Berlin) is the owner of a collection containing more than 30 million exhibits. Viewers can see the history of the development of the Universe, our planet and the formation of mankind.

The collection of dinosaurs is the most popular among visitors. Most of the exhibits are perfectly preserved and make a huge impression. The collection of insects is also of great interest, where models of representatives of this taxonomic unit are exhibited in an enlarged size.

Berlin Wax Museum

The first wax figures of famous political and cultural figures were exhibited in London at the end of the 19th century. Much time has passed since then, but this undertaking has not been forgotten. At the beginning of the 21st century, the German version saw the light, and the Tussauds Museum (Berlin) gained unprecedented popularity.

Figures of politicians, artists, musicians, athletes and movie stars are exhibited in nine halls. In total, there are more than 80 exhibits. Interestingly, the organizers did not ignore the sad side of German history and presented the figure of Hitler to the public. In order not to hurt people's feelings, he has a very pathetic and sickly appearance.

There is another interesting room in the museum. In it, tourists are shown and told in detail about how wax figures are created.

Luftwaffe Museum

This huge aviation display is housed in three large hangars and a vast open-air area. 19th century aircraft and modern machines are in working order. Here you can see unique airships, interceptors, gliders, radars, helicopters and much more.

Soviet equipment, which was in service with the National Folk, makes up a third of the entire exposition. Here, viewers can see in detail the military uniform of different times, control equipment and various weapons. In addition, among the exhibits there are awards, certificates, photographs and other items of officer life. Viewing the entire exhibition usually takes about five hours.

Complex Berlin-Dahlem

The expositions of this museum are dedicated to Asian art, European culture and ethnology.

The section dedicated to the art of India includes more than 20,000 exhibits. This amazing collection is considered one of the best in the world. In the new halls of the museum you can see handicrafts from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central and Southwest Asia

The pride of the ethnological museum is the rooms that recreate the life of different peoples in different eras. It also displays pre-industrial artifacts and Benin bronzes for the public to see.

The exposition of the European Museum clearly demonstrates how the different states of our continent are approaching, cooperating and growing together.

Stasi Museum and Prison

Walking through the museum and getting to know its exhibits makes a strong impression. Considering that the tour is led by ex-prisoners, it can be understood that this event is not suitable for the faint of heart.

Once in this prison people were kept whose guilt was not proven, as well as those who tried to flee the country or simply applied to leave. Before the Stasi, it was actively engaged in identifying disgruntled citizens of its country, spying on tourists in Russia and had a reputation as one of the most effective spy organizations.

In the museum, tourists can see interrogation rooms, investigators' offices, and surveillance equipment. Of particular interest is the spy equipment built into buttons, ties, hours, birdhouses, stumps, and other items.

After examining the exposition, you will find out how the people who visited this prison felt. Neither old films nor books describing the drama of those years can immerse you in the atmosphere so much.

Conclusion

To visit the most interesting museums in Berlin, you need to spend more than one day. However, the time you spend within their walls, you will remember for a lifetime. Here you will find a lot of impressions, you will be enriched with knowledge, and in some cases even master new skills and abilities.