park & garden
Naturpark Schöneberger Südgelände
A nature park on a former railway yard, with a locomotive hall, water tower, turntable and steam locomotive among wild plants and marked walking routes.
Matches: History
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Polyrama
A Charlottenburg museum of recorded life stories, where you listen to personal audio narratives from its archive. The current story is about a retired teacher who moved from Israel to Berlin and talks about schooling and a multicultural childhood.
Matches: History
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Uhrenmuseum
A small clock museum in a vaulted cellar under a Friedenau jewellery shop, tracing 3,000 years of timekeeping. The only one of its kind in Berlin, reached by a spiral staircase.
Matches: History
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Culinarium
Germany's first permanent exhibition on the cultural history of food and drink, from 1850 to today, in a renovated early 19th-century horse stable. Three levels of hands-on stations trace farming and staple foods to modern eating habits.
Matches: History
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Mauermuseum
Museum at Checkpoint Charlie covering the Berlin Wall and the crossing between East and West. It displays the hot-air balloon from the 1979 escape that inspired the film BALLON, and tells how the wall was built from 13 August 1961.
Matches: History
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Berliner U-Bahn-Museum
Museum in a former signal box at Olympia-Stadion station, its main draw the large lever bank in the biggest room.
Matches: History
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Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
Free documentation centre on the former Anhalter Bahnhof site, covering flight, expulsion and forced migration, with a contemporary witness archive and a quiet reading room.
Matches: History
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Museum Lichtenberg im Stadthaus
A local history museum in Lichtenberg with four rooms on work, daily life and change in the district, including a wall of old products and a historic egg-cutter.
Matches: History
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Feuerwehrmuseum Berlin
A museum in Tegel on the history of Berlin's fire brigade, with museum vehicles and equipment; the brigade was Germany's first professional fire service.
Matches: History
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Heimatmuseum Zehlendorf
Volunteer-run local history museum tracing Zehlendorf from a village to a suburb, with a model of the village around 1800 and old school materials. A special show marks 100 years of the modernist Waldsiedlung estate.
Matches: History
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Museum im Böhmischen Dorf
A two-room museum in a listed former school in Neukölln, showing the Bohemian Village and the Herrnhut Brethren, with volunteer-run displays of church costumes and Herrnhut stars.
Matches: History
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Samurai Museum Berlin
Samurai museum in Mitte with over 4,000 historical objects and holographic and interactive displays covering about 1000 years.
Matches: History
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U144 Untergrundmuseum
A walk-through art and curiosity cabinet in an 1794 cellar labyrinth under Mitte. Nine rooms hold finds from over 50 companies closed in the 1990s, told with a humorous eye on East German history.
Matches: History
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Stabi Kulturwerk
A free exhibition space of the State Library with centuries-old manuscripts, rare books and maps, changing each quarter, plus a Carl Maria von Weber display.
Matches: History
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Berliner Unterwelten e.V
Non-profit association running guided tours of bunkers, tunnels and air-raid shelters, some led by former contemporary witnesses.
Matches: History
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Gaslaternen-Freilichtmuseum
An open-air collection of gas street lamps along a path in Tiergarten, run by the Technikmuseum foundation.
Matches: History
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Die Mauer | The Wall
A museum on the Berlin Wall at Leipziger Platz, covering its construction in 1961, its fall in 1989 and reunification, with large photographs and a guard tower.
Matches: History
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Enthüllt. Berlin und seine Denkmäler
Permanent exhibition in Zitadelle Spandau on monuments from 1849 to 1986, many since removed from public space, including Siegesallee and Lenin fragments. Visitors may touch most objects, and guided tours run.
Matches: History
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Jüdisches Museum
The Jewish Museum Berlin covers Jewish history and present-day Jewish life in Germany, with rotating exhibitions and English-language guided tours. An architecture exhibition on Daniel Libeskind's building runs in 2026.
Matches: History
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Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik
Plaster casts of ancient sculptures in Charlottenburg, run by Freie Universität's classical archaeology institute. Guided tours and drawing sessions are offered, and a student-curated exhibition is currently listed.
Matches: History
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Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung
A Mitte foundation showing photographs by Bauhaus-trained Alfred Ehrhardt, with a current exhibition on his tobacco series.
Matches: History
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Alliierten-Museum
A museum on the Western Allies' presence in Berlin from 1945 to 1994, with a Cold War board game exhibition and outdoor Wall and Checkpoint Charlie pieces.
Matches: History
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Anti-Kriegs-Museum
Berlin museum on war and anti-war themes, with a permanent exhibition and changing shows by international artists in a gallery space.
Matches: History
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Bahnstation Johannisthal
A former railway station in Johannisthal hosting a Terracotta Army exhibition of the Qin dynasty warriors.
Matches: History