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  1. museum

    Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    A medical history museum on the Charité campus, with 300 years of instruments, specimens and body models in the permanent exhibition. Rotating shows look at illness and the sickbed, and a night tour is offered.

    Matches: History

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    Berliner Unterwelten-Museum

    Gesundbrunnen

    Museum about Berlin's underground, with guided tours of bunkers, tunnels and a former flak tower, some led by contemporary witnesses.

    Matches: History

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    Das Gotische Haus

    Opens 10:00 Spandau

    Medieval townhouse, described as Berlin's oldest civic townhouse, with a Spandau history walk and a gallery. Current show THRESHOLDS by Vitalii Shupliak mixes video, painting and performance on boundaries and migration.

    Matches: History

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    DDR-Museum

    Opens 09:00 Mitte

    Hands-on museum of everyday life in the former East Germany, with a reconstructed GDR prefab flat and a Trabi driving simulator. Over 360,000 objects are held, and guided tours and contemporary witness talks are offered.

    Matches: History

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    Deutsches Historisches Museum

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    German history museum whose Pei building stays open with changing exhibitions while the Zeughaus is closed. Current shows cover colonial and Nazi-era violence and natural history.

    Matches: History

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    Deutsches Spionagemuseum

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    Interactive museum on espionage from antiquity to today, with a laser course, code cracking and a lie detector test. Displays include Hitler's cipher machine and James Bond props, on the former death strip near Potsdamer Platz.

    Matches: History

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    Flakturmruine Volkspark Humboldthain

    Gesundbrunnen

    A guided tour of a wartime flak tower ruin in Humboldthain park, run by Berliner Unterwelten, which goes into the hill of rubble that grew up around the tower.

    Matches: History

  8. museum

    forum 1848 am Friedhof der Märzgefallenen

    Friedrichshain

    Memorial on the cemetery of the 1848 March dead, covering both revolutions, with a walk past graves and biographies of those who died.

    Matches: History

  9. museum

    Forum Willy Brandt Berlin

    Opens 11:00 Mitte Free

    Free exhibition on Willy Brandt's life and politics, from Weimar times through reunification, with themed areas on democracy, Europe and environment.

    Matches: History

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    Galgenhaus Stadtmuseum Berlin

    Mitte

    City museum in Mitte, a building with step-free access for visitors who use a wheelchair.

    Matches: History

  11. museum

    Geschichtsspeicher Fichtebunker

    Kreuzberg

    A Kreuzberg bunker that can only be seen on guided tours, which must be booked online in advance.

    Matches: History

  12. museum

    Gründerzeitmuseum im Gutshaus Mahlsdorf

    Opens Sun 10:00 Mahlsdorf

    A museum in a manor house in Mahlsdorf devoted to the Gründerzeit, Germany's late-19th-century boom era, open Wednesdays and Sundays.

    Matches: History

  13. museum

    Hanf Museum Berlin

    Opens 12:00 Mitte Price: Budget

    Volunteer-run museum in Mitte on hemp as a plant, from textiles and paper to medicine, with a café on site.

    Matches: History

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    Hauptmannausstellung

    Köpenick

    A museum in Köpenick devoted to the Captain of Köpenick, the figure who famously posed as an officer to seize the town hall in 1906.

    Matches: History

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    Hugenottenmuseum Berlin

    Opens 11:30 Mitte

    A Berlin museum on the Huguenots at Gendarmenmarkt, run by the local Huguenot community, with a permanent display and a current exhibition on the draughtsman Daniel Chodowiecki.

    Matches: History

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    Klosterruine Berlin

    Mitte

    A medieval monastery ruin in Mitte that doubles as a contemporary art space, currently showing Nazanin Noori's work. Guided art tours, artist talks and walks through medieval Berlin start here, and the ruin's history can be explored on site.

    Matches: History

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    Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank

    Charlottenburg

    Arts foundation in Charlottenburg showing exhibitions from its own collection.

    Matches: History

  18. museum

    Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

    Opens 10:00 Karlshorst Free

    A history museum on the site where the German surrender of May 1945 was signed, covering the German-Soviet war and its aftermath through texts, photos, objects and life stories. Free entry, with an open-air exhibition in the garden.

    Matches: History

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    Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in der Villa Oppenheim

    Opens 11:00 Charlottenburg

    Villa museum with permanent displays on Charlottenburg's local history and the villa's former residents, plus a temporary show on architect Marlene Poelzig.

    Matches: History

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    Museum für Kommunikation

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    A museum on the history of communication, from smoke signals and pneumatic post to robots, with hands-on exhibits and a show on language and power.

    Matches: History

  21. museum

    Museum in der Kulturbrauerei

    Opens 10:00 Prenzlauer Berg Free

    A museum on everyday life in East Germany, with a temporary show on skateboarding before and after the Wall. Monthly späti evenings pair a drink with a walk through the skate exhibition, booked in advance.

    Matches: History

  22. museum

    Museumsdorf Düppel

    Nikolassee

    A reconstructed medieval village where volunteer blacksmiths, casters and weavers show old crafts around 1200.

    Matches: History

  23. museum

    Museumsdorf Düppel

    Nikolassee Price: Budget

    An open-air village from around 1170 to 1220, with living history weekends and open-fire flatbread on opening days.

    Matches: History

  24. museum

    Neuer Pavillon

    Charlottenburg Price: Budget

    A small 1824 summer house by Schinkel in the Charlottenburg palace garden, now a museum where the rooms show how the royal family furnished it until 1840.

    Matches: History