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Museum für Naturkunde

Invalidenstr. 43
10115 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 9:30 - 17:00
Sa + Su 10:00 - 18:00

The Naturkundemuseum at Humboldt University in Berlin with more than 30 million objects is one of the most important Natural history museums around the world. The museum is part of the Humboldt University of Berlin and is mainly known because of the skeleton of Brachiosaurus brancai, the world's largest skeleton of a dinosaur. The so far best conserved skeleton of the genus was found by a German expedition in the former German colony of East Africa, now Tanzania.

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beat. Galerie Contemporary Art
Schlegelstr. 31
10115 Berlin
Fone: 503 625 74
Opening Hours:
We - Sa 13:00 - 19:00

The Kennedys Museum
Pariser Platz 4a
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.20 65 35 70
Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00

Museum für Kommunikation
Museum for Communication | look and try out

Leipziger Str. 16
10117 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 9:00 - 17:00
Sa+ Su 11:00 - 19:00

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KW INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART Gallery
Auguststr. 69
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.24 34 59-0
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 12:00 - 19:00
Th 12:00 - 21:00

Deutsches Historisches Museum
German History Museum

Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00

The Deutsches Historisches Museum, just DHM, is a Museum for German History at the boulevard Unter den Linden in Berlin and sees itself as a place of “enlightenment and understanding about the common history of Germans and Europeans”. The museum is located in the Zeughaus. Already since 2003 the extension building designed by Ieoh Ming Pei is open for the public.. There are presented frequently special exhibitions.

Buildings & Rooms . Paths & Places . Tours & Guides . .

Argus Fotokunst Gallery for photography
Marienstr. 26
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.283 59 01
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 14:00 - 18:00

DNA Gallery
Auguststr. 20
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.28 59 96 52
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 14:00 - 19:00
Sa 11:00 - 19:00

Friedrichwerdersche Kirche
Sculptures of the 19th Century

Werderscher Markt
10117 Berlin

Tours & Guides . Galleries & Museums . . .

Medizinhistorisches Museum/Charité
Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.450-536156
Opening Hours:
Tu, Th, Fr, Su 10:00 - 18:00
We 10:00-19:00
Sa 10:00 - 20:00

Deutsche Guggenheim Gallery
Unter den Linden 13 - 15
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.20 20 93-0
Opening Hours:
daily 11:00 - 20:00
Th until 22:00

Akademie der Künste Acadamy of Arts | New Building
Pariser Platz 4
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.200 57-1703
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 13:00 - 18:00

Internationales Designzentrum International Design Center
Reinhardtstr. 52
10117 Berlin
Fone: 030.280 95 111
Opening Hours:
Mo - Fr 10:00 - 16:00

Altes Museum

Am Lustgarten
10178 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Fr - We10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00

The Altes Museum at the Berlin Museum Island was established by Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1825 to 1828 in the style of classicism and houses today the Antiquities collection of the National Museums in Berlin.

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Alte Nationalgalerie

Bodestr. 1 - 3
10178 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu,We,Fr - Su 10:00 - !8:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00

The Alte Nationalgalerie is a museum in Berlin. Built between 1867 and 1876 it belongs to the ensemble of the Museum Island. This makes it a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In it’s collection are works of the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage which belong to the eras of classical art, Romantic, Biedermeier, the French Impressionist and early Modern.

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Ephraimpalais Gallery
Poststr. 16
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.24 00 2 - 121
Opening Hours:
Tu, Th - Su 10:00 - 18:00
We 12:00 - 20:00

Cicero - Galerie für Politische Fotografie Gallery for Political Photography
Rosenthaler Str. 38
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.70 08 10 42
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 12:00 - 19:00
Sa 11:00 - 16:00

Bodemuseum

Bodestr. 1 - 3
10178 Berlin

Opening Hours:
Fr - We 10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00

The Bode Museum belongs to the group of museums on Museum Island in Berlin and is a historically preserved building. The museum was designed by architect Ernst von Ihne and completed in 1904.Closed for repairs since 1997, the museum was reopened on October 18, 2006. Now it is the home for a collection of sculptures, Byzantine art, and coins and medals. >> Wikipedia

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Pergamonmuseum

Bodestr. 1-3
10178 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Fr - We 10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00

It was built between 1910 and 1930 according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann to house the Pergamon Altar discovered by Carl Humann. Also the collection post antique "German" art of painting and sculpture gallery, the Eastern Division with Hittite, Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian art, and the Islamic art Department (among others with the Mschatta facade). Each of these departments was originally named independent. It is only since 1958 the entire construction got the name "Pergamon Museum” which was reserved until then as the name of the halls of antique collection in the east wing. Today it is home to the Antiquities Collection, the Asiatic Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art.

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Asperger Gallery
Sophienstr. 18
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.280 44 904
Opening Hours:
Tu - Th 14:00 - 19:00
Fr, Sa 12:00 - 19:00

DDR Museum All about GDR
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 1
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.847 123 73-1
Opening Hours:
Mo - Su 10:00 - 20:00
Sa 10:00 - 22:00

Hanfmuseum Hemp Museum
Mühlendamm 5
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.242 48 27
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 20:00
Sa,Su 12:00 - 20:00

Heinrich-Zille-Museum
Propststr. 11
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.24 63 25 00
Opening Hours:
daily 11:00 - 18:00

Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
Rosenthaler Str. 39
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.28 59 94 07
Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 20:00

Erstes Berliner DDR Motorradmuseum First GDR Motorcycle Museum

Rochestr. 14c
10178 Berlin
Fone: 030.240 45 725

Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 21:00

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Neues Museum

Bodestr. 1 - 3
10178 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Su - We 10:00 - 18:00
Th - Sa 10:00 - 20:00

After its closure 70 years ago the German Chancelor Angela Merkel has reopened the "Neue Museum" on October, 16th 2009. The Neues Museum will once again house the archaeological collections of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and of course the famous bust of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti.

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Nikolaikirche
Museum and Concert Room

Nilolaikirchplatz
10178 Berlin
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The Nikolaikirche is the oldest church in Berlin. It is located in Berlin-Mitte in the Nikolai Quarter between Spandauer Straße, Rathausstraße, Spree and Mühlendamm. The Nikolaikirche now belongs to a foundation of the Berlin City Museum which also holds regular concerts there.

Buildings & Rooms . Play & Fun . Paths & Places . .

Märkisches Museum Berlin Town History
Am Köllnischen Park 5
10179 Berlin
Fone: 030.3 08 66 - 215
Opening Hours:
We 12:00 - 20:00
Tu,Th - Su 10:00 - 18:00

Deutsches Architekturzentrum Berlin German Center for Architecture
Köpenicker Str. 48 - 49
10179 Berlin
Fone: 030.278799-28
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 12:00 - 18:00
Sa,Su 14:00 - 18:00

carlier | gebauer Gallery
Holzmarktstr. 15 - 18
10179 Berlin
Fone: 030.280 81 10

Tiergarten

Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart
Museum for Contemporary Art

Invalidenstr. 50 - 51
10557 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa 11:00 - 20:00
Su 11:00 - 18:00
Th 14:00 - 18:00

The Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin was built in late classical style to plans by its director Georg Friedrich Ernst Neuhaus from 1846 to 1847 as a terminal railway station of the Berlin-Hamburg train. It is the only terminal preserved of Berlin of this time, but is no longer used as a train station. At the same time, it is one of the oldest station buildings in Germany. In the mid-eighties the Berlin construction tycoon Erich Marx offered the city his private collection. Thereupon, the Berlin Senate decided in 1987 to establish a museum for contemporary art in the former station. There are exhibited works by, among others, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. The portfolio consists of exhibits of the National Gallery and the collection of Marx. The museum is also known for its changing exhibitions. And since 2004, highlights of the art collection of Friedrich Christian Flick are shown are being shown until the year 2010.

Buildings & Rooms . Beergarden&Beachbar . . .

Akademie der Künste Acadamy of Arts
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
Fone: 030.200 57-2000
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 13:00 - 18:00

Kunstgewerbemuseum
Museum for Arts and Crafts

Tiergartenstr. 6
10785 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa, Su 11:00 - 18:00

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Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Museum for Music Instruments

Tiergartenstr. 1
10785 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 9:00 - 17:00
Th 9:00 - 20:00
Sa, Su 10:00 - 17:00

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Neue Nationalgalerie

Potsdamer Str. 50
10785 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu,We 10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00
Fr - Su11:00 - 18:00

The Neue Nationalgalerie is a museum for the art of the 20th Century in Berlin. The construction of the museum was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and is regarded as an icon of classical modernism. The New National Gallery is, in conjunction with the Gemäldegalerie and the Kunstgewerbemuseum, one of the most important museums in the Kulturforum Berlin. The Neue Nationalgalerie is home to stocks of the National Museums in Berlin in the field of painting, sculpture and sculpture of the 20th Century, from the classic to the modern art of the 1960s.

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Bauhaus-Archiv Museum für Gestaltung
Klingelhöferstr. 14
10785 Berlin
Fone: 030.254 00 20
Opening Hours:
We - Mo 10:00 - 17:00

Gemäldegalerie
Paintings

Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu, We 10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00
Fr,Sa,Su 10:00 - 18:00

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Kupferstichkabinett
Museum for Copper Engraving

Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu, We 10:00 - 18:00
Th 10:00 - 22:00
Fr,Sa,Su 10:00 - 18:00

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Museum für Film und Fernsehen Museum for Movies and TV
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin
Fone: 030.300 90 30
Opening Hours:
Tu, We, Fr - Su 10:00 -18:00, Th 10:00 - 20:00

Wedding

Zuckermuseum Special Museum about Sugar
Amrumer Str. 32
13353 Berlin
Fone: 030.31 42 75 74
Opening Hours:
Mo - Th 9:00 - 16:30
Su 11:00 - 18:00

Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Museum and Viewings of Air-Raid Shelters
Brunnenstr. 108a
13355 Berlin
Fone: 030.49 91 05 17

Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer
Berlin Wall Memorial

Bernauer Str. 111
13355 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00

Since the late '90s there is an architectural memorial ensemble at the Bernauer Strasse, between the districts Berlin-Wedding and Berlin-Mitte, for the Berlin Wall. It includes the Berlin Wall Memorial, the Documentation Center Berlin Wall, and the Chapel of Reconciliation. The Documentation Center, which is run by a club, was opened on November 9th 1999. In 2003, a lookout tower was added with a good view to the memorial wall installations. In addition to the current exhibition (since 2001 under the title Berlin, August 13, 1961), there are different information sources on the history of the wall.

Buildings & Rooms . Beergarden&Beachbar . . .

Friedrichshain

East Side Gallery

Mühlenstr.
10243 Berlin

1316 m Berlin Wall painted by Artists

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Kreuzberg

Topographie des Terrors
Niederkirchner Str. 8
10693 Berlin
Fone: 030.25 48 67 03
Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00

Martin-Gropius-Bau

Niederkirchnerstr 7
10963 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
We - Mo 10:00 - 20:00

The Martin-Gropius-Bau, the former Decorative Arts Museum, is an exhibition house in Berlin, that houses big temporary exhibitions.

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Topographie des Terrors
Open-Air Exhibition

Niederkirchnerstr. 8
10963 Berlin

Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 20:00

Between 1933 and 1945, the central institutions responsible for the repressive and criminal policies of National Socialism were located on the terrain of the Topography of Terror, situated between Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse (today Niederkirchnerstrasse), Wilhelmstrasse and Anhalter Strasse. Here, in close proximity to the traditional government district, the Secret State Police, the SS leadership and the Reich Security Main Office set up their offices: the administrative headquarters of the Secret State Police and the notorious Gestapo "house prison" were located at Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8; the neighbouring Hotel Prinz Albrecht housed the offices of the SS Reich leadership; and the Security Service (SD) of the SS Reich leadership was established at Wilhelmstrasse 102. As of 1939, Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse 8 was also the address of the newly founded Reich Security Main Office.

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Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
German Museum of Technology Berlin

Trebbiner Str. 9
10963 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 9:00 - 17:00
Sa, Su10:00 - 18:00

The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (DTMB) was founded in 1982 under the name of the Museum of Transport and Technology in Berlin and has a long tradition of collecting old exhibits from transportation and technology. It continues the tradition of well-known technology museums which existed in Berlin until the Second World War. After the completion of the first construction phase with the construction of the new building, the house has since 2005 over 25,000 square meters of exhibition space and is one of the largest technology museums in the world.

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Jüdisches Museum
Jewish Museum

Lindenstr. 14
10969 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Mo 10:00 - 22:00
Tu - Su 10:00 - 20:00

The museum building in Berlin's Kreuzberg district connects the old building of the baroque Collegienhaus (former seat of the superior court of justice) with a new building. The construction is based on a draft of the American architect Daniel Liebeskind. The shape recalls a cracked Star of David. The Jewish Museum shows the visitor two millennia of German-Jewish history, the highs and lows of relations between Jews and non-Jews in Germany. The museum houses a permanent exhibition, a number of temporary exhibitions, an extensive archive, the Rafael Roth Learning Center and research institutions. It had about 690,000 visitors in 2005, making it one of the most visited museums in Berlin.

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Berlinische Galerie Berlin Town Museum
Alte Jakobstr. 124 - 128
10969 Berlin
Fone: 030.789 02 – 600
Opening Hours:
daily except tuesday 10:00 - 18:00

Mauermuseum History of Berlin Wall and several attempted escapes
Friedrichstr. 43 - 45
10969 Berlin
Fone: 030.25 37 25-0
Opening Hours:
daily 9:00 - 22:00

Charlottenburg

bildhauergalerie Contemporary Art
Grolmanstr. 46
10623 Berlin
Fone: 030.883 22 85
Opening Hours:
Th, Fr, Sa 15:00 - 19:00

Camerawork Gallery for photography
Kantstr. 149
10623 Berlin
Fone: 030.31 00 77 - 3
Opening Hours:
Tu - Sa 11:00 - 18:00

Museum für Fotografie/Helmut Newton Stiftung
Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation

Jebensstr. 2
10623 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu, We, Fr - Su 10:00 -18:00, Th 10:00 - 22:00

Opened in 2004, the Museum of Photography is a division of the Art Library Berlin and conceived as an exhibition, research and documentation center for the medium of photography. As the main attraction it houses the collection of Helmut Newton Foundation. The Berlin-born photographer had started the foundation at the end of 2003, shortly before his accidental death, and even established a contract with the Foundation for Prussian Cultural Heritage.

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AEDES Land Gallery
Else-Ury-Bogen 600 - 601
10623 Berlin
Fone: 030.282 70 15
Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 20:00

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Fasanenstr. 24
10719 Berlin
Fone: 030.882 52 10
Opening Hours:
We - Mo 11:00 -18:00

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee
Plötzensee Memorial

Hüttigpfad
13627 Berlin

Opening Hours:
daily 9:00 - 17:00

The Plötzensee Memorial remembers the victims of National Socialism in the Plötzensee prison. It is located in the district of Berlin-Charlottenburg on the edge of today's Plötzensee prison and was inaugurated in 1952 by the State of Berlin. Between 1933 and 1945 there were 2891 prison executions in Plötzensee including members of the Rote Kapelle and participants of the failed coup of July 20th, 1944 (Kreisau Circle).

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Georg-Kolbe-Museum Paintings by Georg Kolbe
Sensburger Allee 25
14055 Berlin
Fone: 030.304 21 44
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 17:00

Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik
Schloßstr. 69b
14059 Berlin

Bröhan-Museum Art Nouveau, Art Deco
Schloßstr. 1a
14059 Berlin
Fone: 030.326 906 00
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00
Mo 10:00 -20:00

Museum Berggruen
Picasso and his contemporaries

Schloßstr. 1
14059 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00

The Museum Berggruen (also known as Berggruen Collection) in Berlin-Charlottenburg is considered one of the world's most important collections of classical modernism, which the collector and art dealer Heinz Berggruen left in a "gesture of reconciliation" to his hometown of Berlin at a price far below value. Works by the likes of Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Georges Braque, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse are here under one roof. The Museum Berggruen is one of the state museums in Berlin.

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Narurwissenschaftliche Sammlung
Schloßstr. 69a
14059 Berlin
Fone: 030.3 42 50 30
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00

Steglitz

Botanisches Museum Botanic Museum
Königin-Luise-Str. 6 - 8
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.83 85 01 00
Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00

Zehlendorf

Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee Museum + Café
Colomierstr. 3
14109 Berlin
Fone: 030.805 83 83 0

Haus der Wannseekonferenz
House of the Wannsee Conference

Am Großen Wannsee 56 - 58
14109 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
daily 10:00 - 18:00
except on holiday

At the Wannsee conference of the 20th of January, 1942 under the chairmanship of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Reich Security Main Office, 15 senior representatives of Nazi Reich government and party departments came together to organize in detail the beginning of the Jewish Holocaust and to assure the cooperation of all parties. In the rooms of the villa in 1992, the Memorial and Education Site ‘House of the Wannsee Conference’ was opened. On the ground floor of the house the permanent exhibition "The Wannsee Conference and the genocide of the European Jews" informs visitors of the process of exclusion, persecution and expulsion of Jews between 1933 and 1945 by the Nazis. Also how ghettoization was arranged, and deportation, and the murder of European Jews in the German sphere of influence.

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Museumsdorf Düppel Houses and Courts of the 13th Century
Clauertstr 11
14163 Berlin
Fone: 030.802 6671
Opening Hours:
Su 10:00 - 17:00
Th 15:00 - 19:00

Haus am Waldsee
International Contemporary Art

Argentinische Allee 30
14163 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
daily 11:00 - 18:00

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Alliiertenmuseum Outpost Ally Museum
Clayallee 135
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.818 19 90
Opening Hours:
Th - Tu 10:00 - 18:00

Brücke Museum
Bussardsteig 9
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.831-2029
Opening Hours:
We - Mo 11:00 - 17:00

Ethnologisches Museum

Arnimallee 27
14195 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa, Su 11:00 - 18:00

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Museum Europäischer Kulturen Museum of European Cultures
Arnimallee 25
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.8301-438
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa, Su 11:00 - 18:00

Museum für Asiatische Kunst Museum for Asiatic Arts
Lansstr. 8
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.8301-438
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa, Su 11:00 - 18:00

Museum für Indische Kunst Museum for Indian Art
Lansstr. 8
14195 Berlin
Fone: 030.830 13 61
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 18:00
Sa, Su 11:00 - 18:00

Prenzlauer Berg

AEDES Pfefferberg Gallery
Christinenstr. 18 - 19
10119 Berlin
Fone: 030.282 70 15
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 11:00 - 18:30
Sa,Su 13:00 - 17:00

Spandau

Fort Hahneberg

Hahnebergweg
13593 Berlin
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On the extreme western edge of Berlin, after six years of construction in 1888 Fort Hahneberg was completed. It was the last newly built fortress in Germany. To protect the Spandau centre of arms, after the German-French War 1870-1871 a belt of four forts around the city were planned. However only one was realized, since the development of artillery projectiles, especially the introduction of explosive grenades, meanwhile made this type of defensive fortress ineffective. Since 1993, it is cared for by the " Arbeits- und Schutzgemeinschaft Fort Hahneberg e.V." which offers regular tours.

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Luftwaffenmuseum Air Force Museum
Kladowerdamm 182 - 188
14089 Berlin
Fone: 030.811 07 69
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 9:00 - 16:00

Köpenick

Kunstgewerbemuseum im Schloss Köpenick Arts and Crafts in the Köpenick Castle
Schloßinsel
12557 Berlin
Fone: 030.65 66 17 49
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00

Museum im Wasserwerk History of Water Providing
Müggelseedamm 307
12587 Berlin
Fone: 030.8644-7695
Opening Hours:
Tu - Fr 10:00 - 16:00
Su 10:00 - 17:00

Hellersdorf

Gründerzeitmuseum Gut Mahlsdorf
Hultschiner Damm 333
12623 Berlin
Fone: 030.5 67 83 29
Opening Hours:
We + Su 10:00 - 18:00

Hohenschönhausen

Gedenkstätte Hohenschönhausen
Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Genslerstr. 66
13055 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
see website

The Ministry of State Security of the GDR (East Germany) had its central investigative prison from 1951 to 1989 in Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen. There were primarily political prisoners jailed and tortured there,physically and mentally. After Reunification, the buildings and equipment were almost left in their original condition. So in1994, a memorial was set up. Former prisoners and guides take visitors through the various buildings.

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Lichtenberg

Deutsch-Russisches Museum German-Russian Museum
Zwieseler Str. 4
10318 Berlin
Fone: 030.50 15 08 10
Opening Hours:
Tu - Su 10:00 - 18:00

Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße
Memorial Normannenstraße

Ruschestr. 103
10367 Berlin
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Opening Hours:
Mo - Fr 11:00 - 18:00
Sa,Su 14:00 - 18:00

The museum is located in Building 1 of the central complex of the Ministry for State Security in Berlin-Lichtenberg. This is also where Erich Mielke, the last acting Minister for State Security, had his headquarters. You can see, amongst other things, his original preserved offices. In addition are exhibits of the activities of the State Security, and resistance and opposition in the GDR (East Germany).

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