Explorer Berlin

The Jewish Museum Berlin opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe, covering 3,500 square metres. It presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present, across a baroque former courthouse and Daniel Libeskind's zinc-clad extension, whose zigzag plan and slit windows give the building its distinctive form.

Feuerle Puig House, formerly The Feuerle Collection, is a private art collection in a former World War II telecommunications bunker in Kreuzberg, renovated by architect John Pawson. Founded in 2016 by Désiré Feuerle and Sara Puig, it pairs antique Khmer sculpture and Chinese imperial furniture with contemporary art. Visits are guided and must be booked in advance.

The Museum of Photography sits beside Berlin's Zoologischer Garten station, in a former Landwehr officers' mess built in 1909. Opened as a museum in 2004, it is part of the Berlin State Museums and houses the Helmut Newton Foundation, with the permanent exhibition 'Helmut Newton's Private Property' alongside changing photography shows.

The Computer Games Museum (Computerspielemuseum) on Karl-Marx-Allee in Friedrichshain traces the history of video games from early arcade machines to modern consoles. First opened in 1997, it reopened at this address in 2011 with a permanent exhibition of consoles, computers and playable historic games.

A private museum in a former grain warehouse on the Spree in Friedrichshain, next to the East Side Gallery, whose roof once served as a Cold War border watchtower. Opened in 2016, its thirteen rooms trace the Berlin Wall's history from 1961 to 1990 through eyewitness testimony and artefacts, including items from the 1989 fall of the Wall.

The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection is an art museum opposite Charlottenburg Palace, showing paintings, prints and sculpture from French Romanticism to Surrealism. Founded in 2008 as part of the Berlin National Gallery, it is housed in the neoclassical building that formerly held the Egyptian Museum.

The Museum of European Cultures in Dahlem explores everyday life, customs and cultural contact across Europe from the 18th century to the present. Formed in 1999 from the merger of Berlin's Museum of Ethnography and Museum for Folklore, it occupies the oldest building of the Dahlem Museums, designed by Bruno Paul.