The Allies arrived as conquerors, kept West Berlin alive during the 1948 Airlift and finally left in 1994. In what used to be a US Forces cinema, the Allied...
Clayallee 135
The original Anti-War Museum was founded in 1925 by Ernst Friedrich. In 1933, it was destroyed by the Nazis, and Friedrich fled to Brussels. There he had...
Brüsseler Strasse 21
Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, designed the elegant white building that now houses this absorbing design museum. The permanent exhibition...
Klingelhöferstrasse 13-14The three floors of this collection (above a flagship Beate-Uhse retail outlet offering videos and sex toys) contain oriental prints, showroom-dummy...
Joachimstaler Strasse 4This quiet, private museum is made up of three well-laid-out levels of international art nouveau and art deco pieces that businessman Karl Bröhan began...
Schlossstrasse 1A
This small 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...
Bussardsteig 9Daimler's art collection is serious stuff, sticking to the 20th century, and covering abstract, conceptual and minimal art; its collection includes around...
Alte Potsdamer Strasse 5
Formerly a temporary exhibition on the Kurfürstendamm, this has now turned into a permanent private museum on Leipziger Platz. Don't expect any large...
Leipziger Platz 7This is 'Ostalgia' in action. Touch screens, sound effects and even the 'DDR Game' mean that the more distasteful aspects of East German life are cheerfully...
Karl Liebknecht Strasse 1Both 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
The permanent exhibition in the Zeughaus finally opened in July 2006 and provides an exhaustive blast through German history from 100 BC to the present day,...
Zeughaus
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...
Trebbiner Strasse 9
Extensive, authoritative, beautifully laid out, the Ethnological Museum encompasses cultures from Oceania to Central America to Africa to the Far East....
Lansstrasse 8Since 1963, the Deutsche Kinemathek has been amassing a collection of films, memorabilia, documentation and antique film apparatus. In 2000, all this stuff...
Potsdamer Strasse 2
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