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Deutscher Dom

Attractions, Museums

Both this church and the Französischer Dom were built in 1780-85 by Carl von Gontard for Frederick the Great, in imitation of Santa Maria in Montesanto and...

Gendarmenmarkt
Free

Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstrasse (Stasi Museum)

Critics' choice
Attractions, Museums

In what used to be part of the headquarters of the Stasi, you can look around the old offices of feared secret police chief Erich Mielke, preserved as they...

Ruschestrasse 103

Französischer Dom/Hugenottenmuseum

Attractions, Museums

Built in the early 18th century for Berlin's 6,000-plus-strong French Protestant community, the church was later given a baroque tower, which offers fine...

Gendarmenmarkt

Friedrichswerdersche-Kirche/Schinkel-Museum

Attractions, Museums

This church, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, was completed in 1831. Its war wounds were repaired in the 1980s and it reopened in 1987 as a homage to...

Werderscher Markt
Free

Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen

Attractions, Museums

This sprawling former remand prison run by the Stasi was used to incarcerate political prisoners - anyone from the leaders of the 1953 workers' uprising to...

Gensler Strasse 66

Hanf Museum

Attractions, Museums

The world's largest hemp museum aims to teach the visitor about the uses of the plant throughout history, as well as touching on the controversy surrounding...

Mühlendamm 5

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

Attractions, Museums

After the Soviets took Berlin, they commandeered this former German officers' club as HQ for the military administration and it was here, on the night of...

Zwieseler Strasse 4
Free

Museumsdorf Düppel

Attractions, Museums

At this 14th-century village, reconstructed around archaeological excavations, workers demonstrate handicrafts, medieval technology and farming techniques....

Clauertstrasse 11

Neue Synagoge

Attractions, Museums

Built in 1857-66 as the Berlin Jewish community's showpiece, it was the New Synagogue that was attacked during Kristallnacht in 1938, but not too badly...

Centrum Judaicum

Nikolaikirche

Attractions, Museums

Inside Berlin's oldest congregational church is an interesting historical collection chronicling Berlin's development until 1648. Old tiles, tapestries,...

Nikolaikirchplatz

Zitadelle

Attractions, Museums

The oldest structure inside the citadel (and the oldest secular building in Berlin) is the Juliusturm, dating back to about 1160. The bulk of the Zitadelle...

Am Juliusturm