Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
A red-brick Neo-Gothic church on Werderscher Markt in Mitte, built between 1824 and 1831 to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, otherwise known for neoclassical buildings. Deconsecrated and restored, it reopened in 2019 as a museum of the Nationalgalerie, showing nineteenth-century German sculpture alongside material on Schinkel's own career.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Designed by architect Peter Eisenman and completed in 2005, it covers 1.9 hectares near the Brandenburg Gate with 2,711 concrete slabs of varying height on sloping ground. An underground exhibition lists the names of around three million victims.
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.
The Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Decorative Arts, is part of the Berlin State Museums and shows European applied arts from the Middle Ages to today, including furniture, fashion, glass, porcelain and jewellery. Its main collection is displayed at the Kulturforum building, with a second branch at Köpenick Palace.
LEGOLAND Discovery Centre Berlin is an indoor family attraction near Potsdamer Platz with ten LEGO-themed zones, including a 4D cinema, a NINJAGO-themed ride and a DUPLO play area for young children. Its Miniland section reproduces Berlin landmarks built from LEGO bricks.
The Gemäldegalerie at the Kulturforum displays the Berlin State Museums' collection of European Old Master paintings from the 13th to 18th centuries. First opened in 1830, it moved into its current building in 1998. Highlights include works by Dürer, van Eyck, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt and Vermeer.
The Kupferstichkabinett at the Kulturforum is Germany's largest museum of prints and drawings, holding more than 500,000 prints and around 110,000 individual works on paper, including drawings, watercolours and pastels. Changing selections from the collection are shown in rotating exhibitions, since the works are too light-sensitive for permanent display.
An observation deck on the 24th floor of the Kollhoff Tower at Potsdamer Platz, reached by a lift that takes about 20 seconds to climb to roughly 90 metres. The viewing platform includes an open-air section with a display on the history of Potsdamer Platz, and a café one floor below.
A private museum on Leipziger Platz, opened in 2015 on the former Cold War dividing line between East and West Berlin. Around 1,000 objects trace espionage history from antiquity to today, including an Enigma machine and the poison-tipped umbrella used to kill the dissident Georgi Markov. Visitors can try a laser maze and code-breaking challenges.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church stands on Breitscheidplatz in central Berlin. Built between 1891 and 1895 to honour Emperor Wilhelm I, its spire was left as a ruin after Allied bombing in 1943 and now stands beside a modern octagonal church built in the 1960s. The ruin houses a memorial hall documenting the building's history.
The Neue Nationalgalerie is a modern art museum at the Kulturforum, built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1968. Its glass-and-steel pavilion houses the Berlin National Gallery's 20th-century collection, including Expressionist, Bauhaus and post-war works. The building was renovated by David Chipperfield and reopened in 2021.
Hard Rock Cafe Berlin occupies a corner building on Kurfürstendamm near Breitscheidplatz, part of the international Hard Rock Cafe chain. The restaurant serves an American-style menu alongside a music-memorabilia collection and an attached merchandise shop. A table-seating skip-the-line package combined with a set menu is sold as a separate ticketed product.
Asisi Panorama: The Wall is a panoramic painting by artist Yadegar Asisi, displayed inside a purpose-built rotunda at Checkpoint Charlie. The circular artwork depicts everyday life in divided Berlin's Kreuzberg district beside the Berlin Wall in the 1980s, viewed from an elevated visitor platform.
A museum near Checkpoint Charlie devoted to the Trabant, the small car built in East Germany from 1957. Opened in 2014, it displays around twenty cars and three engines, from original P50, 600 and 601 models to modified versions including an armoured Trabant and a camper conversion with a roof tent.
Checkpoint Charlie was the only Berlin Wall crossing point designated for foreign tourists, diplomats and Allied armed forces personnel, in use from 1961 to 1990. A reconstructed guard hut and sandbags now mark the site on Friedrichstraße, flanked by a sign warning drivers they are leaving the American sector.
The Topography of Terror is a museum and memorial on Niederkirchnerstraße, on the former site of the SS and Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi era. Its exhibitions document the organisations behind Nazi persecution, alongside an outdoor trail beside a surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall. Excavated foundations of the former Gestapo buildings lie along an open-air trench.
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 East Side Gallery is an open-air gallery on the longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall, running 1.3 km along Mühlenstraße in Friedrichshain between the Spree river and the Oberbaumbrücke. More than 100 artists painted murals on the east side of the wall in 1990, shortly after German reunification. One of its murals depicts Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing.
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