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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.
A museum in Mitte opened in 2022, built around the private collection of Peter Janssen. Across 1,500 square metres it shows more than 900 objects, including around 40 full suits of samurai armour, 200 helmets and 160 swords, spanning the Kofun period to the Edo era. The museum also has a traditional tea house and a Noh theatre stage.
A branch of the Swedish Fotografiska photography museum network, founded in Stockholm in 2010. The Berlin museum opened in September 2023 in the former Kunsthaus Tacheles building on Oranienburger Straße in Mitte, showing changing exhibitions of contemporary photography alongside a café, restaurant and rooftop bar.
The Bode Museum is a domed building on Berlin's Museum Island, built from 1898 to 1904 to plans by Ernst von Ihne and originally named the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum. It houses the Sculpture Collection, the Museum of Byzantine Art and the coin cabinet. Museum Island was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama is a temporary exhibition hall on Museum Island, open since 2018. Its centrepiece is Yadegar Asisi's 360-degree panorama reconstructing the ancient city of Pergamon in the 2nd century AD, shown alongside original finds from the Pergamon excavations while the main Pergamonmuseum is closed for renovation.
The Berlin Dungeon is an indoor, actor-led walk-through attraction near Alexanderplatz that dramatises episodes from the city's dark history, from plague and torture to a river raft ride and a free-fall drop. Shows run in German and English. It belongs to the Dungeons chain, alongside sister sites in London and Hamburg.
The Alte Nationalgalerie is a temple-like building on Berlin's Museum Island, built between 1862 and 1876 to designs by Friedrich August Stüler and Johann Heinrich Strack. An equestrian statue of King Frederick William IV stands on its grand staircase. The gallery houses paintings and sculpture from the 19th century.
The Reichstag building is the historic parliament building on Platz der Republik in Berlin, built between 1884 and 1894 to designs by Paul Wallot and now the seat of the Bundestag. Severely damaged in the 1933 Reichstag fire and in the Second World War, it was rebuilt between 1995 and 1999 by architect Norman Foster, who added the walk-in glass dome above the plenary chamber.
The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island was built between 1843 and 1855 to designs by Friedrich August Stüler. Damaged in the Second World War and left in ruins for decades, it was restored by architect David Chipperfield between 1999 and 2009. It houses the Egyptian Museum and the Museum of Pre- and Early History.
The James Simon Gallery is the entrance building for Museum Island, designed by David Chipperfield and opened in 2019. Built on the site of the former Packhof between the Neues Museum and the Kupfergraben canal, it holds ticketing, a café, and rotating special exhibitions, and is named after art patron James Simon.
The Fernsehturm is a 368-metre telecommunications tower in central Berlin, built by the East German government between 1965 and 1969. It is the tallest structure in Germany. A lift rises to an observation deck and a revolving restaurant inside the steel sphere, with views over the city from near Alexanderplatz.
A museum of plastinated human bodies in the base of Berlin's television tower, opened in 2015 with around 20 full-body specimens and up to 200 anatomical exhibits. The bodies are preserved by Plastination, a technique the anatomist Gunther von Hagens developed in the 1970s, and were donated for medical education to show organ systems and common diseases.
The Tiergarten is a 210-hectare park at the centre of Berlin, founded in 1527 as a hunting ground for the Elector of Brandenburg and redesigned as an English-style landscape park in the 19th century by Peter Joseph Lenné. It stretches between the Brandenburg Gate and Berlin Zoo, crossed by footpaths and the Landwehr Canal. The Berlin Victory Column stands at its centre.
The Altes Museum is a Neoclassical building on Berlin's Museum Island, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel and built between 1825 and 1830 for King Frederick William III. Its colonnaded facade faces the Lustgarten. The museum houses the Antikensammlung, Berlin's collection of Greek and Roman antiquities.
The DDR Museum is an interactive museum on the River Spree in central Berlin, opposite Berlin Cathedral. Its exhibits recreate everyday life in East Germany, including a furnished prefabricated apartment and a Trabant driving simulator, drawing on a collection of more than 360,000 objects.
Berlin Cathedral is a Protestant church on Museum Island, built between 1894 and 1905 for Emperor William II to designs by Julius Raschdorff in Renaissance and Baroque Revival styles. It is the largest Protestant church in Germany and houses the Hohenzollern dynastic crypt. Visitors can climb to the dome gallery for views over central Berlin.
The Berlin Victory Column stands at the centre of the Großer Stern roundabout in Tiergarten park. Designed by Heinrich Strack and inaugurated in 1873 to commemorate Prussian military victories, it is topped by a gilded bronze statue of Victoria by Friedrich Drake and stands 67 metres tall. A viewing platform near the top looks out over Tiergarten toward the Brandenburg Gate.
Madame Tussauds Berlin is a wax museum on Unter den Linden displaying more than 100 life-like wax figures of musicians, actors, athletes, politicians and historical figures. The figures are grouped into themed zones covering film and television, music, sport and history, with areas set up for photographs.
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in central Berlin, built between 1788 and 1791 for King Frederick William II of Prussia to a design by Carl Gotthard Langhans. Its sandstone columns support a bronze quadriga sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow. The gate marked the Cold War division of the city and now stands at the western end of Unter den Linden.
The Humboldt Forum is a museum of human history and culture inside the reconstructed Berlin Palace on Museum Island. It opened to the public in 2021 and houses the non-European collections of the Berlin State Museums, including the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The building reconstructs three Baroque facades of the historic palace around a modern interior.
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