Brandenburg Gate
Iconic city gate by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans.
Berlin Highlights
Reichstag
You can visit the dome but advance registration is required.
German Museum of Technology
Über-cool technology museum featuring planes, trains & automobiles, and more.
Charlottenburg Palace
Rococo palace of Sophia Charlotte, the first Queen Consort in Prussia.
Pergamon Museum
Home to the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate & Processional Way.
German Historical Museum
National history museum, closed until the end of 2025.
Museum in the Kulturbrauerei
Museum dedicated to everyday life in the GDR.
Panorama The Wall
What the Berlin Wall looked like from the west side in the 1980s.
Jewish Museum Berlin
Brücke Museum
Museum dedicated to the Die Brücke art movement.
Further Recommendations
Academy of Arts
AEG Turbine Factory
Coolest turbine factory ever, by architect Peter Behrens.
Airport Tempelhof
Airport terminal by architect Ernst Sagebiel.
Allied Museum
How enemies became friends.
Alte Nationalgalerie
Romantic & impressionist paintings & sculptures.
Altes Museum
Museum of classical antiquities by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Ampelmann Shop
Ampelmännchen everywhere.
Anne Frank Centre
Exhibition that focuses on the diary & the story of the life of Anne Frank.
Aquarium Berlin
Asian Art Museum
Badeschiff
Floating swimming pool with a unique panoramic view of the river Spree, the Oberbaumbrücke & Berlin’s iconic TV tower.
Bauhaus Archive
Closed for renovation until 2025.
Belvedere in Charlottenburg’s Palace Gardens
Pavilion by architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, housing porcelain from Frederick the Great’s manufactory.
Berlin Cathedral
19th-century church by architects Julius Raschdorff.
Berlin City Models
Four models of Berlin’s inner city for urban development.
Berliner Philharmonie
Concert hall by architect Hans Scharoun.
Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial
Former Stasi prison.
Berlinische Galerie
Contemporary art museum.
Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité
Medical science museum.
Berlin Park Railway
Minimum-gauge pioneer railway.
Berlin River Cruise
Boat trips on the Spree & Landwehr Canal.
Berlin TV Tower
Television tower nicknamed St Walter (Ulbricht) for its cross-shaped reflection of the sun.
Berlin Wall Memorial
The Berlin Wall Memorial commemorates the partition of the city with a large exhibition on the former border strip.
Berlin Wall Trail
160-km-long hiking & cycling trail that traces the course of the former GDR border fortifications encircling West Berlin.
Bode Museum
Sculpture & Byzantine art museum.
Book Burning Memorial
Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.
Boros Collection
Contemporary art packed in a World War II bunker.
Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum
Bröhan Museum
Art nouveau, art deco, and functionalism.
Café Moscow
Café Strauss
A tranquil resting place at the Friedrichwerder Cemetery.
Camera Work
Photographic art gallery.
Chapel of Reconciliation
Chapel by architects Peter Sassenroth & Rudolf Reitermann.
Checkpoint Bravo
Former inner German border crossing.
Checkpoint Charlie
Former inner German border crossing.
Church of Peace
Church by architects Fritz Schupp & Martin Kremmer, who also designed the Zollverein & Rammelsberg mines.
Citadel
Fortress & local history museum.
Corbusierhaus
Brutalist architecture by Le Corbusier.
DDR Museum
Museum dedicated to the German Democratic Republic.
Düppel Museum Village
Living history museum.
East Side Gallery
Open-air gallery on a 1,316-m-long remnant of the Berlin Wall, featuring 105 paintings by artists from all over the world.
Ephraim Palace Museum
Rococo city palace, closed for renovation.
Ethnological Museum
Ethnographic stuff from Africa, Asia, America & Oceania.
Forum Willy Brandt
Exhibition dedicated to politician Willy Brandt.
French Cathedral
Weekly organ concertos.
Friedrichswerder Church
Gothic Revival church by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Futurium
Interactive exhibits on vital issues for the future.
Gardens of the World
Gardens from five continents.
GDR Watchtower
One of the 302 Berlin Wall observation towers.
Gemäldegalerie
European painting from the 13th to the 18th century.
Georg Kolbe Museum
Museum dedicated to sculptor Georg Kolbe.
German Cathedral
Exhibition dedicated to German parliamentary democracy.
German Resistance Memorial Center
Exhibition dedicated to the German resistance against the Nazis.
German Spy Museum
Espionage museum.
Grunewald Hunting Lodge
Nearly thirty paintings by the Lucases Cranach to be found here.
Günter Litfin Memorial
Memorial dedicated to one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall.
Hamburger Bahnhof
Contemporary art museum.
Haus am Waldsee
Exhibition space for international contemporary art.
Horseshoe Estate
Modernist housing estate by architect Bruno Taut.
House of the Wannsee Conference
Memorial site dedicated to the persecution & murder of the European Jews in World War II.
House of World Cultures
Congress hall by architect Hugh Stubbins.
Humboldt Forum
Reconstructed Prussian palace.
KaDeWe
Iconic luxury department store.
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Karl Marx Bookshop
Sadly closed.
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
Museum dedicated to artist Käthe Kollwitz.
Knoblauch House Museum
Museum dedicated to the Biedermeier era in Berlin.
Komische Oper Berlin
Comic opera house.
Konnopke’s Imbiß
Berlin’s best currywurst sold here.
Konzerthaus
Concert hall by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
Köpenick Palace
Exhibition space for the Museum of Decorative Arts.
Kunsthaus Dahlem
Contemporary art gallery.
Liebermann Villa
Museum dedicated to painter Max Liebermann.
Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum
Refugee transit camp for GDR citizens.
Märkisches Museum
Local history museum, closed until 2028.
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Exhibition centre by architects Martin Gropius & Heino Schmieden.
Marx-Engels Monument
Sculpture of Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels by Ludwig Engelhardt.
Memorial to the 17 June 1953 Uprising
Memorial commemorating the East German protest march.
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Holocaust memorial.
Mies van der Rohe House
Landhaus Lemke, by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Museum Berggruen
Contemporary art museum.
Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
World War II museum.
Museum for Architectural Drawing
Architecture museum.
Museum for Communication
Postal & telecom museum.
Museum für Naturkunde
Natural history museum.
Museum of Decorative Arts
Museum of applied art.
Museum of European Cultures
Ethnographic museum.
Museum of Military History at Berlin-Gatow
Military aviation museum.
Museum of Photography
Museum of Prints and Drawings
Museum of Things
Small museum spotlighting mass production & industrial manufacturing in the 20th & 21st centuries.
Myth of Germania
Exhibition dedicated to Hitler’s plans for Berlin’s redevelopment.
Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre
Former Nazi forced labour camp.
Neue Nationalgalerie
Contemporary art museum by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Neues Museum
Archaeological & Egyptological museum, home to Mrs Nefertiti.
New Guardhouse
Greek Revival building by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, now a memorial to the victims of war & dictatorship, home to Käthe Kollwitz’s Mother with her Dead Son.
New Pavilion in Charlottenburg’s Palace Gardens
Neoclassical villa by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
New Synagogue
Moorish Revival synagogue by architect Eduard Knoblauch.
№ 100 Bus
Hop-on-hop-off bus for WelcomeCard & CityTourCard holders.
Olympic Bell Tower
Exhibition on the Olympic Games of 1936 & the history of the site.
Oranienburg Palace Museum
Palace of Tears
Former inner German border crossing.
Reich Aviation Ministry
Former Nazi office building by architect Ernst Sagebiel, with Max Lingner’s 1952 mural Aufbau der Republik.
Royal Porcelain Factory
Frederick the Great’s porcelain manufactory (1763).
Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum
Former Nazi concentration camp.
Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection
Surrealist art museum.
Schinkel Pavilion
Contemporary art gallery by architect Richard Paulick.
Siemensstadt Housing Estate
Modernist housing estate by architects Hans Scharoun, Walter Gropius & others.
Soviet Memorial Tiergarten
Russian World War II cemetery.
Soviet Memorial Treptow
Russian World War II cemetery.
Stasi Museum
Museum dedicated to East Germany’s secret police at the former Ministry for State Security.
State Opera
Opera house.
St Hedwig’s Cathedral
Neoclassical cathedral with a Klais organ.
St Mary’s Church
Home to the 22-m-long 15th-century fresco Dance of Death.
St Nicholas’ Church Museum
The oldest church in Berlin.
Teachers’ House
Office building with a frieze depicting a socialist view on life.
Tempelhof Field
Former airport, now a public park.
Tierpark Berlin
The East Berlin zoo, est. 1955.
Topography of Terror
Nazi crimes exhibition.
Track 17 Memorial
To commemorate the deportation of Jewish citizens by the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the Nazi era.
Victoria Park
City park with a mountain waterfall.
Victory Column
Column celebrating victories in the Wars of German Unification (1864–71).
Wall Museum
Museum dedicated to the Berlin Wall & the history of NATO.
World Clock
Landmark clock showing the time in 146 world cities.