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Photo Sugar Museum

The Museum of Sugar in Berlin, opened more than 100 years ago in cooperation with the Institute of Sugar Industry, is the first "s …

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Photo Museum of Homosexuality

The Museum of Homosexuality, founded in 1985 by Andreas Sternweiler and Wolfgang Thays, is dedicated to the history of homosexuali …

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Photo Museum of Erotic Beata Uze

Beata Uze Museum of Erotics, opened in 1996 by entrepreneur Beata Uze, is one of the youngest museums in Berlin and the most popul …

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Photo Allied Museum

The permanent exhibition of the Allied Museum, which used to be an American base, is dedicated to the dramatic history of Berlin a …

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Photo GDR Museum

The GDR Museum is an interactive museum in the center of Berlin. Its exposition is located in the former government district of Ea …

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Photo Stasi Museum

The Stasi Museum is a scientific and memorial center relating to the political system of the former East Germany. It is located in …

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Photo Ethnological Museum in Dahlem

The Ethnological Museum in Berlin is part of the huge museum complex of the Berlin-Dahlem Museum Center. The museum’s extensive co …

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Photo Museum of Photography

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

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Photo The Sugar Museum in Berlin

The Sugar Museum in Berlin was opened in 1904. The museum is divided into seven different thematic halls. These are sugarcane, sug …

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Photo Bauhaus Museum

The Design Museum in Berlin is dedicated to researching and understanding the history and influence of the Bauhaus, the most impor …

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Photo Lipstick Museum

The Lipstick Museum, recently opened in Berlin, is a whole cultural complex dedicated entirely to this eternal attribute of women’ …

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Photo Asian Art Museum in Dalem

The Museum of Asian Art is part of a huge museum complex located in Dahlem, south of Berlin. The collection, which contains at lea …

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Photo Museum of Natural History

The Natural History Museum with an area of about 4,000 square meters introduces visitors to the beautiful nature of the world, nam …

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Photo Bunker Museum

The bomb shelter with a capacity of about 2,500 people, known as the “Bunker”, is located on 5 floors in 120 rooms. The height of …

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Photo Museum of Prehistoric and Early History

The Museum of Prehistoric and Early History of Berlin has been on Museum Island since 2009. In 1960-2009 it was located in Charlot …

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Photo German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

The German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is a museum that reflects the entire history of World War II. The museum is located in …

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Photo Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments

A collection of more than 800 instruments from the XVI century to this day is in the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments, located …

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Photo German Technical Museum

The German Technical Museum, opened in 1983 and located in the former depot building where the Anhalter Banhof railway station was …

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Photo Museum Kete Kolwitz

Kete Kolwitz is a German artist, graphic artist and sculptor, a prominent figure in German realism of the first half of the XX cen …

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Photo 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 Berl …

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Photo Museum Island: Egyptian Museum of Berlin

The Egyptian Museum arose in the XVIII century from private collections of art of Prussian kings. Alexander von Humboldt recommend …

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Photo Hohenschönhausen Memorial Museum

The Hohenschönhausen Memorial Museum is located in a building where, after the end of World War II, a Soviet special camp was loca …

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Photo Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts

The Museum of Decorative Arts is one of the oldest museums of its kind in Germany. Here is collected, perhaps, the most representa …

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Photo Hamburger Bankh Museum

The museum and galleries have a history in their own right, and if they are still in a place that has its own destiny, it is doubl …

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Photo Museum Island: Old museum

The Old Museum presents its collection of ancient art of Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece. The museum is housed in a neoclassical b …

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Photo German Historical Museum

The German Historical Museum tells the story of Germany. It is a place of enlightenment and understanding of the common history of …

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Photo Museum Island: Bode Museum

The Bode Museum is markedly different from the “neighbors” on Museum Island. Designed in a non-baroque style by Ernst von Ine, it …

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Photo The Jewish Museum in Berlin

The Jewish Museum in Berlin, opened on September 9, 2001, located in the Kreuzbergn district on Lindenstrasse Street, is the large …

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Photo Brucke Museum

Brucke Museum is a museum in Berlin, in the Dahlem district, which contains the richest collection of paintings of the expressioni …

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Photo Museum of engravings 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 …

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Photo Museum Island: Pergamon Museum

The Pergamon Museum was built from the sketches of Alfred Messel by Ludwig Hoffmann Switchen during 1910-1930. The museum housed s …

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Photo German Guggenheim Museum

The German Guggenheim Museum is an art museum in Berlin. It is located on the first floor of the German Bank and is completely und …

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Photo Children's Creativity Museum

Creating a museum of children’s art, the initiators wanted to give courage to children and give them the opportunity to create som …

Photo Berggruen Museum

The Berggruen Museum, founded in 1996, located in Berlin’s Charlottenburg district in Stüler’s Barracks building, is the owner of …

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Photo Museum Island: The Ancient Collection of Berlin

The ancient collection is one of the parts of the Pergamon Museum of Berlin, located on Museum Island. However, the collection is …

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Photo Museum of Decorative Arts

The Museum of Decorative Art is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany. It has one of the most important collections in the fiel …

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Photo Breen Museum

The Breen Museum is located in Berlin opposite Charlottenburg Castle. The museum specializes in interior decoration of the late XI …

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Photo Museum Island: The New Museum

Initially, the New Museum was conceived as a continuation of the Old, since there were so many exhibits that they simply did not f …

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Photo Museum of Otto Lilienthal

When Otto Lilienthal was born in 1848, man had long dreamed of learning to fly. However, no one succeeded, and Lilienthal’s attemp …

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Photo Museum Island: Old National Gallery

Berlin National Gallery was founded about a century and a half ago and has the richest collection of works of art in Germany. The …

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Popular Questions and Answers

Answer: The museum island includes five key museums: the Pergamon Museum with antique collections, the Egyptian Museum with the bust of Nefertiti, the Old National Gallery with the works of Caspar David Friedrich, the Bode Museum with Byzantine art and the Old Museum with Greco-Roman artifacts. The Jewish Museum in Kreuzberg reveals the two-thousand-year history of Jews in Germany, and the German Historical Museum at Unter den Linden covers events from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

Museum guide Berlin

Berlin is a city where history and modernity meet in museum halls, and every walk turns into a small trip. Here you can walk from ancient ruins to avant-garde installations, feel the spirit of the times in memorials and discover unexpected thematic collections. Museums in Berlin live a busy life and offer exhibitions that are memorable for a long time.

The best museums Berlin neighborhood

The city has an amazing variety: the Sugar Museum introduces the history of the sugar industry and rare technological artifacts, the Museum of Homosexuality documents the stages of the development of the LGBT movement since its founding in 1985, and the Museum of Erotic Beata Uze, opened in 1996, attracts unusual collections of objects and visual materials. For an understanding of post-war history, it is worth visiting the Allied Museum and the GDR Museum, while the Hohenschönhausen Memorial Museum and the Stasi Museum provide a deep insight into the repression and politics of the GDR. On the Museum Island are located the Pergamon Museum, the Old Museum, the New Museum and other large collections of ancient and classical art, and in Dahlem are the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art with rich collections. In Karlshorst, the German-Russian Museum tells about the events of the Second World War, the German Technical Museum and the Natural History Museum impress with the scale of the exhibits, and the Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments and the Museum of Photography show unique collections for connoisseurs of music and visual arts. Besides the central institutes, the city has small specialized museums – from the lipstick museum to the Otto Lilienthal museum – that make the routes around Berlin lively and unpredictable.

Museum exhibitions and events

The Berlin Museum Poster is full of temporary exhibitions, retrospectives and anniversary projects: The Sugar Museum celebrates the key dates of its founding, the Museum of Photography, opened in 2004, regularly displays international retrospectives, and the Jewish Museum, opened on September 9, 2001, conducts major thematic projects and educational programs. Many museums accept imported collections and curatorial exhibitions, so it is worth keeping an eye on the schedule - it is often temporary exhibitions that become the highlights of the cultural season.

Come to Berlin and include several museum stops in your trip: this is the best way to experience the city’s multi-layered history. To the excursions were rich and comfortable, use the services of private guides - they will make a personal route, share rare stories and help to get around the queue. Book your tour in advance and discover museum Berlin in all its versatility.

 

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