Tourist attractions Berlin

Housed in three large rooms, the Collection of Classical Antiquities in the Pergamonmuseum features some remarkable fragments from Greek and Roman buildings. The most famous of these are the imposing Altar of Pergamon , a masterpiece of Hellenisti..

The northern tip of Spree island is home to an incredible collection of museums. The result of a century of cultural policy which created one of the richest art collections in the world, the Museuminsel site includes the Pergamon Museum , the Altes..

Known around the world for its reconstruction of ancient monuments, this is the most recent of the museums on Museum Island . Divided into three sections, its most interesting exhibits include the Collection of Antiquities ; the Museum of Near Eas..

The exterior of the Sony Center is dominated by the Bahn Tower, the glass headquarters of Deutsche Bahn, the state railway company. But it’s the interior of this glass and steel complex designed by Helmut Jahn which is particularly impressive. The 4 ..

The Philharmonic Concert Hall was the first building designed by Hans Scharoun for the Kulturforum between 1960 and 1963 (according to plans drawn up in 1956). It is one of the symbols of the Kulturforum and is home to the renowned Berlin Philharmo..

The Kulturforum, designed by Hans Scharoun at the end of the 1950s, was created to house West Berlin’s works of art (most of the city’s cultural monuments were situated in East Berlin at the time). The museum, dedicated to music and the arts, is home..

Opened in 1844 in the park designed by Peter Joseph Lenné, the zoo is home to almost 13,000 animals. Its spectacular collection of rare species includes cassowaries, condors, harpy eagles, seals, okapis, beavers and pandas. Equally as impressive is t..

In the 19C, until German re-unification, Charlottenburg was a popular excursion just outside Berlin. Gradually, private houses were built here, as well as the first factories. People came to enjoy themselves at the Flora (1871-1874), where concerts..

The superb collections of the Agyptisches Museum can now be seen in the renovated Neues Museum . The highlights include exhibits discovered at Tell-el-Amarna which date from the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten: two reliefs of Amenhotep III , Akhenaten’s..

This ethnological museum is one of the largest in the world with nearly 400,000 exhibits. Pre-Columbian America is represented by stone steles from Cozumalhuapa, Mayan objects, and Aztec statues; the golden chamber with its magnificent jewels and..

Following the transfer of the Art Gallery to the Kulturforum and the merger of the Islamic Art Museum with the Pergamon Museum , the exhibition areas at Dahlem now house the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art . T..

Long divided between Dahlem Museum in the west and the Bode Museum in the east, Berlin’s collection of paintings was brought together in 1998 and housed in the Kulturforum; it is now one of the most important in Europe. The Gemäldegalerie is home t..

This unique museum portrays life in the former East Germany. Various aspects of daily existence are explored through a variety of exhibits: consumption and price controls, the difficulty of finding some products, the secret services and their omnipre..

The Old Museum, built by Schinkel from 1824 to 1830, was the first public museum in Berlin. The 87m-long colonnade of the main façade, supported by 18 Ionic columns, is a masterpiece of neo-Classical art. The museum houses collections of archaeologic..

This museum designed by Friedrich August Stüler exhibits 19C art. The visit starts on the upper floor, with a display of works by Goethe’s contemporaries, such as Caspar David Friedrich , Blechen and Schinkel. The middle floor is dedicated to the Fr..

This Baroque edifice, without doubt the most beautiful in Berlin, was built between 1688 and 1730 by the great architects Jean de Bodt, Martin Grünberg and Johann Arnold Nering. In the inner courtyard, note the 22 mascarons of dying warriors sculpt..

Between 1695 and 1706, great architects of the time undertook the construction of the Arsenal, notably Andreas Schlüter, who sculpted the 22 grotesque figures in the inner courtyard. The building now houses the museum of German history: the permanent..

Built in 1904, this museum occupies a magnificent building designed by Ernst Eberhardt von Uhne . The main body of the building consists of columns and pilasters crowned with a balustrade adorned with figures and a copper dome. Reopened in 2006, the..

The golden cupola of the New Synagogue is the most visible symbol of Scheunenviertel’s renaissance. Between Oranienburger Straße and the Hackescher Markt, trendy cafés and restaurants, restored courtyards and backyards, fashion boutiques and art gall..

This fashionable street in the alternative Kreuzberg district in the heart of old Berlin is dotted with cafés, clothes’ shops, second-hand goods’ stores and Turkish bazaars. Note the two beautiful inner courtyards and their façades at n°s 25 and 18..