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TOP 10 Berlin museums with the most interesting collections

According to official data, there are 170 museums and about 300 private collections in Berlin. It is unlikely that anyone can boast that they have visited all of them, but there are 10 without a visit to which an acquaintance with Berlin cannot be considered complete. They are as integral a part of it as the famous wall and the Brandenburg Gate!

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Charlottenburg

A Baroque palace built in 1695-1699 by order of King Frederick I for his wife Sophia Charlotte, who did not like social events and sought privacy. This residence was supposed to house the famous Amber Room, which eventually went to the Russian Tsar Peter I and mysteriously disappeared during the Great Patriotic War.

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Walking around the palace, you will see the personal chambers of the king and queen, the library and other rooms that will amaze your imagination. Luxurious chandeliers, crystal and porcelain dishes, mirrors different forms and sizes, perfectly preserved furniture of that era - everything testifies to the high status and excellent taste of the owners.

In Charlottenburg there is a tomb where Queen Louise of Prussia, her husband Frederick William III and other members of the royal family are buried.

There are now museums in the Old Palace, the Schinkel Pavilion, the New Wing, the Belvedere Tea Palace and other buildings that are part of the complex. All of them can be visited with a single “charlottenburg+” ticket, valid for one day.

The most famous exhibits: the crown used during the coronation of the first Prussian king, the snuff box of Frederick the Great, inlaid precious stones, and a collection of dishes made of precious metals.

Address: Spandauer Damm 10-22.

Opening hours: daily except Monday from 10:00 to 17:00 (18:00).

Ticket price: €10-12, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders. The park can be visited for free.

Old Museum (Altes Museum)

The building was built on Museum Island in 1822-1830 to store the collection that belonged to the Prussian royal family. During the Great Patriotic War it was badly damaged; in 1966 it was restored and again opened to visitors.

Classical works are stored here. ancient art: works of Greek, Roman and Etruscan masters (busts, statues, vases, weapons).

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The most famous exhibits: busts of Caesar (“Green Caesar”), Cleopatra and Caracalla.

Address: Am Lustgarten.

Ticket price: €10, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders. All exhibitions on Museum Island can be visited for €18.

New Museum (Neues Museum)

Built in 1843-1855 to store exhibits that did not have enough space in the Old Museum. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was badly damaged, for decades it bore the title of “the most beautiful ruins,” and only in 1986 restoration work began here. The museum was reopened to visitors in 2009, and in 2014 received the status of a monument of engineering and architectural art.

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It includes several exhibitions:

• Egyptian Museum. Here you can see items related to the ancient Egyptian and Nubian cultures: figurines, sarcophagi, priestly clothing, a model of a pyramid, copies of wooden boats, a valuable collection of papyri and, of course, the famous bust of Nefertiti, which the Egyptian government is still trying unsuccessfully to return.
• Museum of Prehistory and early history, where busts of ancient Roman philosophers, tools and household utensils of Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals, musical instruments, coins and other interesting exhibits from different eras are kept.
• Ethnographic Museum, which presents archaeological finds from different corners. The most valuable of them is the Golden Hat, supposedly belonging to a priest; scientists date it back to 1000-800 BC. This exhibit has a dark past; it came to the museum from an underground antiquities market.

The most famous exhibits: the bust of Nefertiti, discovered in 1912 during excavations in the city of Akhetaten, and the Golden Hat, allegedly found in Swabia in the early 90s of the last century.

Address: Bodestraße 1-3.

Ticket price: €14, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders. All exhibitions on Museum Island can be visited for €18.

Pergamon Museum

The building, built on Museum Island in 1910-1930, was intended to store the Pergamon Altar - one of the most famous monuments Hellenistic period, surviving to this day.

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Now the museum includes:

• An antique collection, including the Pergamon Altar (180-160 BC), the Miletus Market Gate (100 AD), as well as works of art from the ancient Greek and Roman periods: sculptures, mosaics, jewelry, bronzes.
• Museum of Islamic Art, where miniatures, works from Ivory, carpets and other valuable items created in the 8th-19th centuries. Pearls of the collection: a frieze from the Mshatta Palace in Jordan, a dome from the Alhambra (Granada, Spain), mihrabs from Kashan (Iran) and Konya (Turkey), the Aleppo Room.
• Museum of Western Asia - a collection of archaeological finds related to the Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian cultures. The Babylonian Ishtar Gate is preserved here, and a section of the Processional Road that once led to it has been recreated.

The most famous exhibits: the Pergamon Altar, the Miletus Market Gate, the Babylonian Ishtar Gate.

Address: Bodestraße 1-3.

Opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00 (20:00).

Ticket price: €12, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders. All exhibitions on Museum Island can be visited for €18.

Technical Museum (Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin)

One of largest museums such a plan in Europe, which has been operating in a former railway depot since 1983. Its roof is decorated with an American Douglas C-47 Skytrain fighter, nicknamed the “raisin bomber” - such aircraft supplied the residents of West Berlin with food during the blockade of 1948-1949. Some pilots dropped bags of sweets for children (including raisins) on parachutes made of handkerchiefs - hence the unofficial name.

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The museum has 14 thematic exhibitions dedicated to photography, cinema, chemistry and pharmaceuticals, brewing and other industries. One of the most visited exhibitions tells the story of Konrad Zuse, a German engineer who created the first workable programmable computer in 1941, and in 1948 the first high-level programming language (“Plankalküll”).

The museum has an experimental center called Spectrum, where you can, for example, create a tornado or lightning with your own hands. It will be interesting for both adults and children.

The most famous exhibits: the “raisin bomber” Douglas C-47 Skytrain, model Z1 computing device.

Address: Trebbiner Straße 9, D-10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Opening hours: daily except Monday from 9:00 (10:00) to 17:30 (18:00).

Natural History Museum (Museum für Naturkunde)

One of the largest museums in the country, within the walls of which 30 million exhibits are stored. Among them are minerals (65% of all studied to date, about 200,000 specimens in total), dinosaur skeletons, including the largest in the world, fossils with imprints of prehistoric creatures, masterfully made stuffed mammoths and other animals, a collection of insects... A day spent in this museum, will replace dozens of school lessons for children and help adults fill gaps in knowledge!

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Most famous exhibit: the world's largest restored dinosaur skeleton.

Address: Invalidenstraße 43.

Opening hours: daily except Mondays from 9:30 (10:00) to 18:00.

Ticket price: €8, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders.

Berlin Art Gallery (Berliner Gemäldegalerie)

One of the most famous art museums in Europe, where a collection of paintings from the 13th-18th centuries is stored - a consistent and as complete overview as possible European art. There are works by Titian, Caravaggio, Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens, Durer and other recognized masters. The pride of the gallery is one of the world's largest collections of Rembrandt's works, 16 canvases.

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The most famous exhibits: paintings by Rembrandt.

Address: Matthaikirchplatz 4/6.

Opening hours: daily except Mondays from 10:00 to 18:00 (20:00).

Ticket price: €10-12, free entry for Museum Pass Berlin holders.

Bode-Museum

Located in a building built on Museum Island between 1897 and 1904 and undergoing major restoration in 2000-2006.

One of the largest collections in Germany, which after the end of the Second World War was divided between the Western and Eastern parts of the country and was brought together again only in 2006.

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

Museum Island

In a bend of the Spree River in Berlin there is an entire 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, passages between museums will be completed - this will turn 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, in which the entire history of the city from its founding to the present is clearly presented. 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 an atomic bomb shelter from the times cold war. The corridors of the bunker and the atmosphere of the secret facility will not leave anyone indifferent.

Computer games museum Computerspielemuseum

In the museum computer games there is a main permanent exhibition telling the history of development computer technology and this entertainment industry in general. In addition, from time to time there are about 30 different international exhibitions. The museum's surroundings and its interactivity attract electronics lovers; the museum will also be of interest to fans of computer game heroes.

German Historical Museum

The exhibition of the German Historical Museum is located in two places: in old building in the Baroque style on the Unter der Linden street and in the modern exhibition hall. Both buildings are connected to each other by an underground tunnel. The permanent exhibition contains about 8,000 exhibits and represents almost two thousand years of 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

In terms of the amount of equipment, this museum is the largest in Europe. Here are exhibits dedicated to scientific achievements from ancient times to the present: the first computers, robots, airplanes, combines and cars, various apparatus, devices and mechanisms that you can not only look at, but also touch, twirl, and conduct experiments with them. Here you can see a Foucault pendulum and look through a camera obscura, and in the optics hall experience various optical illusions. Not only children, but also adults will be delighted with the German Technical Museum.

Berlin Art Gallery

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

Jewish Museum

The Jewish Museum building, designed by architect Daniel Libeskind, is designed in the shape of a curved line. The floors of the premises are inclined, and visitors, walking through the halls, feel the weight of the climb, which symbolizes all the difficulties of the life of the Jewish people. The exhibition exhibits are dedicated to the life and culture of Jews: dishes, documents, clothing items and much more. Also interesting is the installation “Holocaust Towers” ​​- 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"

Checkpoint Charlie is now just part of the Berlin Wall Museum, but from 1961 to 1990 it was a checkpoint for crossing from West to East Berlin. “Checkpoint” separated the territories of the sectors of influence of the USA and the USSR, so now its windows depict portraits of a Russian and an American soldier. In one of the houses nearby there is the Museum of the History of the Berlin Wall, the exhibitions of which are dedicated to the events of those years. international struggle for human rights, photographs of the 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 many 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 German films of the pre-war era, and 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 in many other Berlin museums, the exhibition space is multimedia and interactive, so viewing the exhibition will not be boring.

Berlin Natural History Museum

The Berlin Natural History Museum is famous for housing the tallest original dinosaur skeleton - more than 13 m in height. It is also home to 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. The halls display a collection of meteorites and a workshop where you can see how animal models are created. Viewing the exhibitions is accompanied by the voices of birds and animals, and the sounds of nature.

The Story of Berlin is one of the first interactive museums in the world. It was opened in 1999. There are 23 halls on an area of ​​7000 sq.m. Each is a separate exhibition dedicated to one of the periods in the 800-year history of Berlin. On the first level of the museum, exhibits covering historical period from the founding of Berlin to the 1920s. In the basement of the building there is an active bomb shelter for 3,592 people. Through the efforts of American and German scientists, architects, and designers, a unique historical attraction was created. Lots of layouts, moving machines and sounding music create the effect of presence. The exhibition is accompanied by the broadcast of educational and documentary films. Since the Story of Berlin Museum is private, it can also book a hall for various corporate events.

Museum "History of Berlin" on the map

Type: Museums, galleries Address: Kurfürstendamm 207, 10719 Berlin, Deutschland.

Opening hours: from 10-00 to 20-00.

Cost: 10 euros.

How to get there: take the city train to Uhlandstrasse station.

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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 reconstruction in 2011, the museum occupied a modern building in Dahlem, designed by Bruno Paul. The museum's collection, which includes 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. animals 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 extinct animals and other fascinating objects.

An impressive highlight of the museum is the Dinosaur Hall, which houses the 13-meter-tall and 23-meter-long skeleton of Giraffatitan, 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 gallery fund is located in several separate buildings and is divided into temporary eras: in the Old National Gallery - art XIX century, in New gallery- XX century, and exhibitions of contemporary art are located in the former building of the Gambur station.

The Old National Gallery houses paintings from a variety of styles: from classicism to modernism, but it is best known for its luxurious collection of 19th-century impressionism. These are works by 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 paintings were irretrievably lost or could no longer be restored, but everyone should see what is still kept in the museum, which is why all tourists visiting Berlin strive to visit the Old National Gallery.

Ethnological Museum in Dahlem

The Ethnological Museum in Berlin is part of the huge 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.

More than one million exhibits are available for museum visitors to view, 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 items cult, terracotta and bronze sculpture, masks, jewelry, musical instruments and much more. Each culture and geographic region has a corresponding room 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 Complete and Unconditional Surrender” fascist 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 visitors with its permanent exhibition, 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, and scientific conferences. The museum exhibits clearly demonstrate to visitors all the data about the war on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945, and also reveal the history of Soviet-German relations before World War II.

Brucke Museum

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

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

The museum demonstrates the birth and unique fate 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 about 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 image of 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 the life of homosexuals: 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, you can learn about 200 years of the moving and gritty history of homosexuality, with a focus on Berlin's gay culture.

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 has one of the most important collections in the field of decorative arts.

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

Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts

The Museum of Decorative Arts is one of the oldest museums of its kind in Germany. Here is collected, probably, the most representative collection of objects and examples of applied art in the country by a variety of craftsmen. The museum premises are based in two places: the Kulturforum and Kopenick Castle.

The exhibits on display in the museum cover all styles and eras in the history of art, from post-antiquity to the present day. What is there: fabrics and clothing, tapestries, furniture, vessels made of glass, enamel, porcelain, silver and gold items. It is very interesting to trace how over time - from antiquity to modernity - ideas about the beauty and functionality of objects, reflected in collection exhibits, changed.

Many of the items on display here have some value. Something was donated to the museum church ministers, something - representatives of the royal court and aristocracy.

Otto Lilienthal Museum

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

In his work, the scientist always focused on nature. After the engineer observed the flight of a white stork, he began experimenting with aerodynamics. In 1889 he published his results in the book The Flight of Birds as a Model for the Art of Aviation. More than ten years later, this book served to help the Wright brothers build the first airplane engine.

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

Today we can trace the life and work of the aviation pioneer at the Otto Lilienthal Museum. Among the exhibits are photographs, models and mock-ups of various aircraft, as well as sketches and drawings from which they were built, and personal belongings, letters and a photo archive will tell you about the life of the engineer.

Museum "German Guggenheim"

Museum "German Guggenheim" - Art Museum Berlin. It is located on the ground floor of the Deutsche Bank and is entirely under its care.

The interior of the museum is designed in a minimalist style. The modest gallery, which occupies a corner of the first floor of the bank building, houses a single-room exhibition space measuring just 50 meters long, 8 meters wide and 6 meters high.

However, despite its small size, the Guggenheim has an important mission - to open contemporary artists to the world. Each year, one work from each artist, created specifically for the museum, is presented to the collection. Among the additions to the gallery's stock are photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, installations by Gerhard Richter and many others.

More than 140 thousand 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 exhibition is occupied by the office and workroom former Minister of State Security, head of the Stasi, Erich Mielke. From here, in 1989, he headed the Ministry of State Security. After the assault on January 15, 1990, the office was sealed and has remained to this day in its original condition.

During its existence, the ministry conducted active ideological and political activities, the main goal of which was to preserve the revolutionary sentiments of the people, propaganda of the revolution, and also to identify dissidents among the people. Much of the museum is dedicated to this. Photographs, recordings, documents, even busts of ideologists are on display for visitors.

Berggruen Museum

Founded in 1996, the Berggruen Museum, located in Berlin's Charlottenburg district in the Stüler Barracks building, has 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 Berggrün, who had been in exile for sixty years. The collection he collected over thirty years boasts works by such celebrities as Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse and others.

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

Museum visitors 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 sculptural ensembles by Alberto Giacometti and some sculptures of African themes.

Museum Island: Old Museum

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

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

Beata Uze Erotic Museum

The Beata Uhse Museum of Erotica, opened in 1996 by entrepreneur Beata Uhse, 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 stuntwoman in the early forties of the 20th century, a decade later invented and founded the world's first sex shop. At the age of 76, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of her erotic empire, Beate Uhse realized her dream and opened a museum of eroticism in Berlin, which today contains a huge collection of artifacts from the erotic history of mankind from antiquity to the present day.

The museum exposition 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 graphics 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 continuously 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 government passengers railway Germany 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 a textile warehouse, a warehouse for dried fruits, and a club for parties and discos. Since 2003, following the acquisition of the bunker by collector Christian Boros, it has been transformed into a museum with its collections of contemporary art. The exhibition can be visited upon prior request. On the roof of the museum there is a penthouse built according to the design of the Berlin architectural bureau Realarchitektur.

Bauhaus Museum-Archive

The Design Museum 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 movement.

The collections of the Bauhaus Archive cover various fields, providing unique story school, and allow us to understand its achievements in the fields of art, education, architecture and design. The extensive collection includes research, design workshops, architectural plans and models, artistic photographs, documents, a photographic archive on the history of the Bauhaus 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 main theme is the story 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 operating only from west to east in 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 all the variety of devices for surveillance, espionage and protection of the Iron Curtain; however, there are also enough devices for organizing an escape from the “socialist paradise”.

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 Russian commentaries and is held in the open air.

Museum of Children's Creativity

Creating a museum children's creativity, the initiators wanted to give courage to children and give them the opportunity to create something with their own hands that they can be proud of. Children's Art Museum The Museum of Children's Art, founded in 1993, on currently has already carried out many projects. The principle of the museum is “from children - with children - for children.”

The initiators of the museum, Nina Vladi and her friends, created on the basis of the museum an international forum 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 of everything. The museum's principle is "from children - with children - for children". From a wide variety of institutions around the world, children are invited to send their works - paintings, poems, prose, photographs, scores, videos - any artistic form is possible. The gallery of children's art is distinguished by great diversity and expressiveness.

Museum Island: Egyptian Museum Berlin

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

The Egyptian Museum has 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 achieved world 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 collection of the Egyptian Museum includes masterpieces belonging to various eras Ancient Egypt: statues, reliefs, and minor works of architecture different periods time of Ancient Egypt: from 4000 BC to the Roman period.

Museum Island: Bode Museum

The Bode Museum is noticeably different in appearance from its “neighbors” located on Museum Island. Made in the neo-Baroque style according to the design of 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.

Nowadays the museum owns three main collections: sculpture, numismatic art and a collection of Byzantine art dating from the Middle Ages and the Modern Age. Of course, the Coin 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 exhibitions are made in the spirit of private collections of the big bourgeoisie and fit very harmoniously into the overall 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 coexist with objects of art.

German Technical Museum

German technical museum, opened in 1983 and located in the former depot building where the Anhalter Bahnhof train station 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 museum's exhibition includes many departments, including the Sugar Production Museum, the Department of the History of the Development and Appearance of the First Computers, as well as a department demonstrating 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, means of communication and communications, printing equipment, textile equipment, but also, by pressing buttons that almost every stand has, set parts of the exhibition in motion: for example, take part in oil refining at a mini-oil plant or spin the turbines of an airliner and sit at its helm, visiting the main, largest and most impressive aviation hall of the museum.

Museum of Prehistory and Early History

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

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

Käthe Kollwitz Museum

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

Her works, full of strength and passion, present without embellishment the eternal troubles of humanity - poverty, hunger, war. The museum currently displays more than 200 works by Käthe Kollwitz, including prints, drawings, posters, sculptures, lithographs, self-portraits and other works from famous series"The Weavers' Revolt" Peasants' 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 eternal 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 lipstick varieties stems primarily from his profession. This allowed Koch to replenish the collection with more and more new specimens. The history of the origin and subsequent development of lipstick is amazing. The emergence of its prototype is associated with Ancient Egypt. Representatives of the fairer sex in those days used red soil to tint their lips. And lipstick, in its familiar form, first appeared in the 19th century, but was inconvenient to use, since it had a very hard composition and was simply wrapped in paper. Only in 1920 did a convenient case appear that allows you to slide out and retract lipstick.

The first in the collection of Rene Koch was the light pink lipstick of Hildegard Knef, a famous German actress. Over time, the collection was replenished with hundreds of lipsticks from all over the world. Also among them you can see such unique things as a cosmetic set from Japan of the 18th century, or a lipstick case in the Art Deco style (1925), made of enamel, covered with gold and precious stones. This entire stunning collection will tell you the story of this permanent resident of the handbag. You'll also see 125 celebrity lip prints (Mireille Mathieu, Utte Lemper, Bonnie Tyler) showcasing the trendy shades of each season.

Museum Island: Berlin Antique Collection

The antique collection is one of the parts of the Pergamon Museum of Berlin, located on Museum Island. However, the Collection does not entirely belong to 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 Ancient Collection itself appeared thanks to collectors collecting classical antiquities, and later, in 1698, they were also joined by the collection of a Roman archaeologist, after which the Collection began 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 the 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 staircase through a four-story tower 33 meters high, on top of which there is a sundial.

The museum's exposition has seven thematic halls: Sugar cane, 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, the tools that were used in different eras. The most valuable exhibits of the museum are a three-roller mill brought from Bolivia, as well as fragments of a medieval mill found during excavations. In addition, the museum has a separate exhibition of the various shapes and packaging used by the manufacturers of this product.

Jewish Museum Berlin

Opened on September 9, 2001, the Jewish Museum Berlin, located in the Kreuzberg district on Lindenstraße, is Europe's largest museum dedicated to two millennia of history of the Jewish people in Germany.

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

The current museum includes two buildings connected by an underground passage: the old building of the Kollegienhaus - the High Court of Berlin, built in the Baroque style, and the new one, built by the architect Daniel Libeskind, whose design resembles the Star of David. The floors of the museum are sloped - when walking on them, visitors feel heaviness, which is a constant reminder of the difficult fate of the Jewish people.

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

No one will be indifferent to the gloomy Holocaust Tower, crowned with a piece of the sky, and the Garden of Exile, where the soil that was brought here from Israel is kept.

Hamburger Banch Museum

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

The Hamburger Banchow Museum was originally a Berlin railway station and served as the starting point for the Berlin-Hamburg train. But then the railway line was rebuilt, the train no longer went along the designated route, 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 instruments used in working on railway tracks, unusual technical devices, as well as locomotives and trains were exhibited here. The station served in this capacity until 1987, when the Berlin Senate decided to convert it into the Museum of Modern Art.

Nowadays works related, for the most part, to the 20th century are concentrated here. These are works by Paul McCartney, Jason Rhodes, David Weiss and others. The paintings complement various installations and cinematic spaces where original full-length and short films are broadcast.

DDR Museum

The DDR Museum is an interactive museum in the center of Berlin. His exhibition is located in the former government district of East Germany, right on the Spree River, opposite the Berlin Cathedral. The museum's exhibition tells about the daily life of the inhabitants of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). For some visitors, the museum is a curiosity and exoticism that has never been seen before, while for others it is a thing of the recent past, similar to photographs from a family album. The exhibition is called: “Life and everyday life of a bygone state.”

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

Berlin Museum of Musical Instruments

A collection of more than 800 instruments dating from the 16th century to the present 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 that once belonged to Queen Sophia Charlotte of Prussia, flutes from the collection of Frederick the Great and a glass accordion from Benjamin Franklin, baroque wind instruments, precursors to the synthesizer, and many other rare antique instruments.

Visitors can listen to all these treasures and learn 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 1,228 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 in Dahlem

The Asian Art Museum is part of a huge museum complex located in Dahlem, south of Berlin. The collection, which contains no less than twenty thousand objects of art of ancient Asia, makes the museum one of the largest in the world in this area. It was formed in December 2006 from the Indian Art Museum and the East Asian Art Museum.

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 3rd 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 Mughal period, ritual sculpture from Nepal and much more. In the courtyard of the museum there is a stone copy of the eastern gate of the famous stupa at Sanchi.

Museum of Prints and Drawings

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

What is noteworthy is that the collections in the museum are not permanently located, but only as temporary exhibitions. Under the influence of temperature, moisture and sunlight the works fade, the sheets become fragile, and then it becomes impossible to restore the painting. Therefore, they spend most of their time in specially equipped storage facilities, where the required level of humidity and temperature is maintained. This way works of art are reliably protected.

In addition to exhibitions, the museum holds active research activities, which consists of analyzing handwritten texts from 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 general history Germans and Europeans."

Throughout its history Historical Museum was subjected to destruction and reconstruction more than once, until it finally 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. Here you can find about 70 thousand household items, 45 thousand items of national clothing, toys, furniture, jewelry, uniforms, flags and banners, as well as a rich photo archive and film library.

The museum has a library common fund 225 thousand books, among which there are also rare copies. The museum's cinema hall seats 160 people and broadcasts historical films and retrospectives. An integral part of the museum are also temporary exhibitions that are held regularly.

Museum Island: Pergamon Museum

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

The modern, larger Pergamon Museum was conceived as three wings - three museums: the Collection of Classical Antiquities, the Near East and the Museum of Islamic Art. By acquiring into the fund priceless pearls of archeology - the Pergamon Altar, the Market Gate from Miletus, the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Road, the museum achieved world recognition. And in 2011, he acquired another curiosity - a panorama of Pergamon, creating a complete effect of presence. In a room 24 meters high and 103 meters long, the life of the ancient Pergamians was completely reconstructed - lively trade in the market, a library can be seen in the distance, townspeople are walking. Various special effects add to the impression: sunset and sunrise, the roar of the street, human talk.

Memorial Museum "Hohenschönhausen"

Memorial Museum“Hohenschönhausen” is located in a building where, after the end of World War II, there was first a Soviet special camp, and then the main pre-trial detention center in the GDR for the pre-trial detention of those suspected of political crimes.

Thousands of political prisoners were detained here, almost all famous representatives of the East German opposition, dissidents, etc. visited here. But for the most part, the prisoners included people who were simply trying or planning to escape over the Berlin Wall to the West, accomplices of the fugitives, and those who had applied for permission to leave the country. Since much of the building and furnishings remain 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 the conditions of detention and methods of punishment were in relation to political criminals in the GDR.

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

It is possible to explore the memorial on your own, as well as group excursions with guides (by prior arrangement).

Allied Museum

The permanent exhibition of the Allied Museum, whose building was once an American base, is dedicated to the dramatic history of Berlin after the end of World War II and the complex relationship between the Allied forces that entered into confrontation. Conflict between Soviet Union and the Western victorious states arose due to the inability to decide the fate of Germany.

The museum exhibits, including documents, photographs, newspapers, plans and maps of Berlin with occupation zones, 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 a French train. Not far from the museum there 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 permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions are aimed at revealing a range of current topics. Watching a documentary and taking a tour will make your visit to the museum even more interesting.

Museum Island: New Museum

Initially New Museum was conceived as a continuation of the Old, 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 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 increased, including the pearl of the New Museum - a 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 onset of industrialization, during construction, a steam engine was used for the first time in Berlin, which was used to drive piles into the ground. Because of this, the building still has a solid foundation, despite the close proximity of the river and erosion.

Brehan Museum

The Brehen Museum is located in Berlin opposite Charlottenburg Castle. The museum specializes in interior design from the late 19th to early 20th centuries (about fifty years). These are the styles of Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism.

The entire first floor is occupied by an exhibition of decorative and applied art of 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 Berlin Jugendstil artists are presented - also only for the interior. On the third floor, two rooms are reserved for personal exhibitions of the Belgian Art Nouveau master Henri van de Velde and the brilliant Joseph Hoffmann, one of the leaders of the Viennese Art Nouveau movement.

The rest of the gallery space hosts various thematic exhibitions.

Sugar Museum in Berlin

The Sugar Museum in Berlin opened in 1904. The museum building is divided into seven different thematic rooms. This is 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 sugar production and 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 sugar began to be made from cane. And in Berlin, a German scientist found sugar crystals in beets, so sugar began to be made from beets too.

At the Sugar Museum you can get acquainted with sugar production and learn its history. See manufacturing equipment and packaging. You can also see different types of sugar, as it can be hard, free-flowing, crushed, brown, candy. Visitors will be able to see a lot of interesting things, for example, specimens of sugar from all over 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.

Museum of Photography

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 Berlin City Museum. The museum is organized by the Helmut Newton Foundation, located on the two lower floors, representing a large number of photographs, including works by Newton, and the Photographic Collection of the Art Library. In the museum you can see many beautiful photographs by world famous photographers.

Sights of Berlin

If you are spending 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 tell you about the most significant attractions that are worth visiting in this wonderful city.

Museum Island in Berlin

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

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

Here you can see values ​​that are not without reason classified as 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 human development from primitive times to the present day. Interestingly, the structure of the complex has not yet been fully completed, so its final version can only be seen in 2028.

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

• Ancient art.
• Islamic art.
• Western Asia.

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

If you want to immerse yourself in the wonderful world of Pergamon, then devote a whole day to it. Start with an exhibition of ancient art, the crown jewel of which is the Pergamon Altar, created in the second century BC. No less interesting will be a visit to the Milena Market Gate, created in the first century by Roman architects.

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

You can see valuable artifacts from the 7th to 11th centuries in the collection of Islamic art. For example, the stone frieze that decorated the Mshattu Palace in the 8th century or the Alleppe Room in the 17th century.

Bode Museum

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

• Collection of sculptures.
• Museum of Byzantine Art.
• Coin cabinet.

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

The 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 artifacts 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 centuries. Here you can see amazing sculptures, ancient sarcophagi, ritual objects of Ancient Egypt and Byzantine icons made from mosaics.

The sculpture collection 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 cabinet. This is the world's largest coin collection.

Jewish Museum

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

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, you should take into account the strong impression it makes on visitors (caretakers and guides often provide first aid to tourists).

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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 World War II it had to be reconstructed due to severe damage. Currently the exhibitions are divided into three parts:

• Mineralogy.
• Zoology.
• Paleontology.

The Natural History Museum (Berlin) has 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 humanity.

The most popular collection among visitors is the dinosaur collection. Most of the exhibits are perfectly preserved and make a tremendous impression. The collection of insects is also of keen interest, where models of representatives of this taxonomic unit are displayed 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 Tussauds (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. It is interesting that the organizers did not ignore the sad side of German history and presented the figure of Hitler for everyone to see. In order not to hurt people's feelings, he looks very pitiful and painful.

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 exhibition is located 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 that was in service with the National People's Museum makes up a third of the entire exhibition. Here viewers can take a detailed look at military uniforms from different times, control equipment and various weapons. In addition, among the exhibits there are awards, certificates, photographs and other items of officer life. Visiting the entire exhibition usually takes about five hours.

Berlin-Dahlem complex

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

The section dedicated to Indian art includes more than 20 thousand exhibits. This stunning collection is considered one of the best in the world. In the new halls of the museum you can see folk crafts from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central and South-West Asia

The pride of the ethnological museum are the rooms that recreate everyday life different nations V different eras. It also displays pre-industrial artifacts and Benin bronzes for public viewing.

The exhibition of the European Museum clearly demonstrates how different states of our continent are getting closer, 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 former prisoners, you can understand that this event is not suitable for the faint of heart.

Once upon a time, this prison held people whose guilt had not been proven, as well as those who tried to flee the country or simply applied to leave. Before the Stasi, it was actively involved in identifying dissatisfied citizens of its country, spying on tourists in Russia and had a reputation as one of the most effective espionage organizations.

In the museum, tourists can examine interrogation rooms, investigators' offices, and surveillance equipment. Of particular interest is spy equipment built into buttons, ties, clocks, birdhouses, tree stumps, and other objects.

After viewing the exhibition, you will find out how the people who were in 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, you will remember the time you spend within their walls for the rest of your life. A lot of impressions await you here, you will enrich yourself with knowledge, and in some cases, even master new skills and abilities.