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Jewish Museum

The museum shows two centuries German-Jewish history, ups and downs in the relationsship between Jews and Non-Jews in Germany. Next to the permanent exhibition, changing exhibitions are also hosted. Thanks to the brilliant architecture Daniel Libeskind, the building belongs to city’s most common architectural highlights.

www.jmberlin.de

Museum Island

The unique museum complex at the Berliner Lustgarten consists of five museums and belongs to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage since 1999. In recent years the ensemble has been beautifully restored and shines since the reopening of the New Museum in its new glory. World-famous treasures such as the bust of Nefertiti in the Bode Museum and the Pergamon Altar in the Pergamon Museum attract millions of visitors every year.

www.museumsinsel-berlin.de

Mauermuseum

You are leaving the American Sector.

Veranschaulicht wird das “beste Grenzsicherungssystem der Welt” (Zitat: Armee-General Heinz Hoffmann) und der „Beistand der Schutzmächte“. Dokumentiert werden erfolgreiche Fluchtversuche und diverse Fluchtmittel: Heißluftballons, Sessellifte, Fluchtautos und ein Mini U-Boot.

www.mauermuseum.de

Berlinische Galerie

A unique interdisciplinary collection shows visitors visual arts, photography and architecture from the end of the19th Century until today, by setting importance on a local emphasis and an international requirement.

www.berlinischegalerie.de

Museum of Technology

Technology to see, marvel and touch. It’s not only for Berliners an admired museum for young and old. Among other interesting things, the Museum of Technology exhibits navigational instruments, a magic lantern, Zuse's Z1, an historic brewery, a windmill, an airplane made out of glass, amphibious crafts, a drawing-room of the German Emperor, carriages, insights of the production of suitcases and the Guillochier handcraft.

Police Museum

In the Police Museum documents are displayed about more than 150 year old history of Berlin’s Police. Among them are uniforms, equipment, weapons used in the commission of criminal cases as well as the People’s Police of East Berlin.

www.berlin.de/polizei/wir-ueber-uns/historie/index.html

GDR Museum

One of the most interactive museums of the world! The museum dedicates itself to the everyday life in the former GDR. How did the state affect the daily life? How did the life differ from the life in West Berlin? Visitors can see GDR uniforms, school books, groceries and further more highlights.

www.ddr-museum.de

STASI Museum

The working spaces of the former minister for public security - Erich Mielke- are originally maintained in the Stasi museum. Here, visitor get chance to learn something about former interrogation techniques and activities of the public security as well as the resistance and opposition of the GDR.

www.stasimuseum.de

Memorial Berlin Wall

Directly at the “Bernauer Straße” near the border between Berlin’s districts Mitte and Wedding, a foundation decided to reconstruct a part of the border fortification of the GDR. The Foundation’s purpose is to document the history of the Berlin Wall and the movements of refugees of the German Democratic Republic as an impact of the German division and the East-West conflict during the 20^th century. It also tries to preserve the memory of victims of communist tyranny and to give visitors an understanding of the GDR.

www.berliner-mauer-dokumentationszentrum.de

Memorial Hohenschönhausen

The memorial Hohenschönhausen is at a historic place like no other is associated in Germany with East Germany and the political persecution in the Soviet zone of occupation. Here, there was the Stasi prison in which prisoners had been sentenced for the state security to provide forced labor.

www.stiftung-hsh.de

German Historical Museum

The German Historical Museum located in the former arsenal, is a place of "enlightenment and understanding about the common history of Germans and Europeans." In the permanent exhibition more than 8,000 historicalexhibits report on people and events of the last century BC until the present.

www.dhm.de

Museum of the present - Hamburger Bahnhof

The "Museum for the Present", counts to theworld’s largest and most important museums of contemporary arts with its total number of works from the 1960s to the present and its diverse exhibition program.

www.hamburgerbahnhof.de

The Story of Berlin

A sensational museum, which documents 800 years of the capital’s history. Here, Berlin's history can be experienced with all senses. "Museum was yesterday." - The Story of Berlin is an experience exhibition with original nuclear  fallout shelter.

www.story-of-berlin.de

Museum of Natural History

Interested in seeing an original-sized Dino? The scientific collections of the Natural History Museum include mineralogical, geological, paleontological and zoological collections. They form the basis for the research, carried out in different areas of the museum and for public exhibitions.

www.naturkundemuseum.de