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...

This 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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

The Memorial to the German Resistance chronicles the German resistance to National Socialism. The building is part of a complex known as the Bendlerblock,...

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...

The ground plan of Libeskind's remarkable building, completed in 1998, is in part based on an exploded Star of David, in part on lines drawn between the...

This extensive, curious and somewhat old-fashioned museum traces the history of Berlin through a wide range of historical artefacts. Different sections...

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...

The Museum of Childhood and Youth is the place to come if you want to show kids how lucky they are to be going to school today and not 50 years ago. Apart...

Mostly in ruins since 1945, the Neues Museum was reopened, after an 11-year, $250 million makeover by English architect David Chipperfield, in October 2009....