The Allies arrived as conquerors, kept West Berlin alive during the 1948 Airlift and finally went home in 1994. In what used to be a US Forces cinema, the Allied Museum is...

The original Anti-War Museum was founded in 1925 by Ernst Friedrich, author of War Against War. In 1933, it was destroyed by the Nazis, and Friedrich fled to Brussels. There he...

This popular commercial operation features a former barge converted into a heated swimming pool, docked on the banks of the Spree. It belongs to the Arena Berlin cultural...

Information on clubs, races and events. The Tour de Berlin, a five-stage, 600km/375-mile race, is in May.

Far from the centre of town, this former bread factory houses a cinema, gallery, café and a small experimental theatre where productions by visiting companies are performed in...

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...

Set on an inlet off the Spree just over the border from Kreuzberg, this popular timbered bar occupies an old boathouse, several floating docks and a decommissioned boat. The...

A roomy venue with a reputation for the best sound in town, Columbiahalle promotes larger acts that haven't made it to stadium status, such as Babyshambles, the White Stripes...

This is a good place for canoe and kayak tours of the western river and canal system. You'll save money by booking for a whole day.

The shop front looks more like a deserted department store than a revered confiserie and retains its original 1928 design by Johannes Itten of the Bauhaus. Inside are stacks of...

Cheapest public rink in town. The venue also holds important skating competitions.

Trial track with jump ramps, and a good place to connect with what's on. Projekt Erlebnisräume builds and maintains skateboarding, skating and climbing facilities and organises...

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...

Named for the Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the world's oldest women-only hotel has 12 bedrooms, tucked away on the top two floors of a residential apartment building...