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  1. museum

    Neues Museum

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    Museum on Berlin's Museum Island with the bust of Nefertiti and the Berlin Gold Hat, plus Egyptian and prehistoric collections.

    History

  2. park & garden

    Niemandsland Gemeinschaftsgarten

    Mitte

    A community garden run by two Protestant parishes on a former Wall border strip beside the memorial, with a quiet high point over an old cemetery.

    History

  3. museum

    Nikolaikirche

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    A medieval church in Nikolaiviertel turned museum, showing city history, church music and contemporary art, with a sound installation called Chorus.

    History

  4. guided tour

    Operationsbunker Teichstraße

    Reinickendorf

    A guided tour of a former operating bunker, run by the Berliner Unterwelten association and taken entirely underground.

    History

  6. museum

    Pergamon-Panorama

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    A 360-degree panorama painting by Yadegar Asisi showing the ancient city of Pergamon, with a top visitor platform, inside the Pergamonmuseum complex.

    History

  7. museum

    PETRI Berlin

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    Museum showing archaeology work normally hidden in workshops, storerooms and project areas, run jointly by a state museum and the city's heritage office.

    History

  8. gallery

    Reinbeckhallen

    Opens 11:00 Oberschöneweide

    Gallery in Oberschöneweide showing street photographs of everyday life in the GDR in the 1970s by Klaus Greiner.

    History

  9. museum

    Schwules Museum *

    Opens 14:00 Tiergarten

    Berlin museum on queer history and culture, with changing exhibitions, guided tours and an archive and library of queer collections. Some of the tours are offered in English.

    History

  10. café

    silent green Kulturquartier

    Wedding

    An arts centre in a former crematorium in Wedding, with concerts, readings, exhibitions and guided tours of the historic building.

    History

  11. museum

    Spandovia Sacra – Museum mit Bibliothek und Archiv

    Spandau Free

    Reformation-history museum in a half-timbered house with medieval roots in Spandau, with an attached café and a church library of more than 2,600 volumes.

    History

  12. museum

    Stasimuseum

    Opens 11:00 Lichtenberg

    A museum in the former Stasi headquarters, where you can see Erich Mielke's preserved office and Stasi files, photos and objects.

    History

  13. museum

    Tempelhof Museum

    Opens 13:00 Mariendorf Free

    A local history museum in Tempelhof with a permanent display, rotating exhibitions and a photo and document archive on the district.

    History

  14. escape room

    The Room

    Lichtenberg

    Several themed escape missions, from a comedic ghost hunt to a 1924 Berlin detective story. Drinks are served on site, and a restaurant can follow the game.

    History

  15. museum

    The Wall Museum

    Opens 10:00 Friedrichshain

    A history museum in a former mill storehouse beside the East Side Gallery, tracing the Wall from its building to 1989 across 13 rooms.

    History

  16. museum

    Theodor-Fontane-Apotheke im Bethanien

    Opens Tue 11:00 Kreuzberg

    A preserved 19th-century hospital pharmacy in the Bethanien building where Theodor Fontane worked in 1848 and 1849, kept in its original fittings.

    History

  17. museum

    THF Tower Ausstellung

    Tempelhof

    Historical exhibits on the former Tempelhof airport, from early aviation through the 20th century, with a panoramic rooftop terrace over the Feld and skyline.

    History

  18. viewpoint

    THF Tower Dachterrasse

    Tempelhof

    A glass-topped former air traffic control tower at Tempelhof with a wooden rooftop terrace looking over the city and Tempelhofer Feld.

    History

  19. museum

    Tränenpalast

    Opens 10:00 Mitte Free

    A free permanent museum on the division of Germany, set in the former exit hall at the Friedrichstraße border crossing.

    History

  20. museum

    Waldmuseum

    Grunewald

    A forest museum in Grunewald in a former 1914 tree nursery gardener's house, with hands-on senses tests and tree identification. An outdoor forest garden with a barefoot path sits beside it.

    History

  21. museum

    Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge

    Opens 12:00 Mitte

    Museum of everyday objects and design history in Mitte, with a permanent open depot display and changing shows, including design from Weißensee.

    History

  22. museum

    Schloss Schönhausen

    Niederschönhausen

    Rococo palace museum that served as a Prussian summer residence, a Nazi-era art depot and the GDR head of state's seat. Its late Rococo ballroom is the only original of its kind in Berlin.

    History

  23. museum

    Anna-Seghers-Gedenkstätte

    Opens Tue 10:00 Adlershof

    Writer Anna Seghers's preserved Adlershof apartment, kept as she left it, with a literary estate library of about 10,000 volumes. Only visited on a guided tour.

    History

  24. museum

    asisi Panorama Berlin Die Mauer

    Opens 10:00 Mitte

    Panorama display of the Berlin Wall in Mitte, a large painted view of the wall and its surroundings.

    History