Brecht's home from 1948 until his death in 1953 has been preserved exactly as he left it. Tours of the house (phone in advance for an English one) give interesting insights...

This small but satisfying museum is dedicated to the work of Die Brücke ('The Bridge'), a group of expressionist painters that was founded in Dresden in 1905 before later...

The permanent exhibition in the Zeughaus finally opened in July 2006 and provides an exhaustive blast through German history from 100BC to the present day, divided...

Opened in 1982 in the former goods depot of the Anhalter Bahnhof, the German Museum of Technology is an eclectic, eccentric collection of new and antique industrial artefacts....

The Ethnological Museum is a stunner - extensive, authoritative, beautifully laid out and lit. It encompasses cultures from Oceania to Central America to Africa to the Far...

In what used to be part of the headquarters of the Stasi, you can look around the offices of secret police chief Erich Mielke - his old uniform still hangs in his wardrobe -...

The Hamburg Station Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 1997 within a huge and expensive refurbishment of a former railway station. The exterior features a stunning...

A little tacky, but essential for anyone interested in the Wall and the Cold War. This private museum opened not long after the DDR erected the Berlin Wall in 1961 with the...

The idea of a Jewish museum in Berlin was first mooted in 1971, the 300th birthday of the city's Jewish community. In 1975 an association was formed to acquire materials for...

On the top floor of a typical Kreuzberg apartment block, the 'Museum of Things' contains every kind of small object you could imagine in modern design from the 19th century...

Shortly before his death in 2004, Berlin-born Helmut Newton, who served his apprenticeship elsewhere in Charlottenburg at the studio of Yva (now the Hotel Bogota), donated over...

Designed in the 1960s by Mies van der Rohe, the New National Gallery houses German and international paintings from the 20th century. It's strong on expressionism: there are...

The Gay Museum, opened in 1985, is still the only one in the world dedicated to homosexual life in all its forms. The museum, its library and archives are staffed by volunteers...