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  1. museum

    Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung

    Opens 10:00 Kreuzberg Free

    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: Politics

  2. theatre

    Kabarett-Theater Distel

    Mitte Price: Mid-range

    A Mitte cabaret theatre staging satirical political comedy, with ensemble shows and guest acts in German.

    Matches: Politics

  3. gallery

    Sammlung Hoffmann

    Mitte

    A private collection of art from the 1920s to the 2010s, shown in the owners' home and work rooms in Mitte since 1997. Saturday tours are dialogue-based, so you discuss the works rather than just listen.

    Matches: Politics

  4. museum

    Alliierten-Museum

    Opens 10:00 Dahlem Price: Budget

    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: Politics

  5. museum

    Anti-Kriegs-Museum

    Opens 16:00 Wedding Free

    Berlin museum on war and anti-war themes, with a permanent exhibition and changing shows by international artists in a gallery space.

    Matches: Politics

  6. museum

    BND-Besucherzentrum

    Opens Tue 10:00 Mitte

    Visitor centre of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, with an interactive exhibition over more than 1,000 square metres, plus talks and events.

    Matches: Politics

  7. 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: Politics

  8. 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: Politics

  9. open-air cinema

    Gemeinschaftsgarten Prachttomate

    Neukölln Free

    A Neukölln community garden hosting outdoor Kiezkino documentary screenings, paid for by a passed hat, plus a summer festival with punk, wave and Mexican son.

    Matches: Politics

  10. gallery

    Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien

    Opens 10:00 Kreuzberg

    A contemporary art centre with exhibitions and artist residencies. The autumn programme includes Tanja Ostojić's ENCOUNTERS on bodies, borders and resistance, plus a video station showing Analivia Cordeiro's Computer Dance.

    Matches: Politics

  11. gallery

    Maigalerie

    Opens Wed 13:00 Mitte

    An exhibition and event space run by the daily junge Welt, hosting concerts, panels and book presentations, with a left-wing outlook.

    Matches: Politics

  12. café

    RegenbogenCafé

    Opens Mon 17:00 Kreuzberg Price: Budget

    A self-organised community café in Kreuzberg run by eleven collectives inside the Regenbogenfabrik, with rotating artists' exhibitions and free events.

    Matches: Politics

  13. 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.

    Matches: Politics

  14. gallery

    Ausstellungszentrum Pyramide

    Hellersdorf

    Six-level pyramid-shaped building in Hellersdorf with rotating exhibitions on social, cultural and artistic themes with a regional focus. Readings, lectures, film screenings and concerts fill the programme, and choir singing and book bazaars run between shows.

    Matches: Politics

  15. museum

    Berlin Story Bunker

    Opens 10:00 Kreuzberg Price: Mid-range

    A museum inside a World War II bunker, covering Nazism and the Führerbunker remains, postwar German history and a separate Ukraine section on the Russian invasion.

    Matches: Politics

  16. museum

    Einblick ins Geheime - Ausstellung zum Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv

    Opens 11:00 Lichtenberg Free

    A free exhibition on how the Stasi collected personal data, with its archive of about 111 kilometres of files. Talks with witnesses are held at the former headquarters.

    Matches: Politics

  17. museum

    Erlebnis Europa

    Opens 10:00 Mitte Free

    Free interactive exhibition in the Europäisches Haus on Unter den Linden about how the EU and its politics work, offered in 24 European languages. A 360-degree cinema shows a European Parliament plenary session.

    Matches: Politics

  18. museum

    FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum

    Opens 10:00 Kreuzberg Free

    Local history museum in Kreuzberg with rotating exhibitions on street names, social movements and migration, plus an archive and a podcast project about the neighbourhood.

    Matches: Politics

  19. museum

    Group Global 3000

    Kreuzberg

    A Kreuzberg gallery for sustainable art, currently showing the exhibition "Debunking fake news" on climate and the environment.

    Matches: Politics

  20. bar

    Hearts' Fear

    Neukölln

    A neighbourhood pub-café in Neukölln, listed in a Berlin left-wing subculture and politics calendar.

    Matches: Politics

  21. place

    Kronprinzenpalais

    Mitte

    An English-language event at the Kronprinzenpalais in Mitte on the aesthetics of justice, asking how fairness can be shown visually.

    Matches: Politics

  22. gallery

    Lapidarium

    Kreuzberg

    Kreuzberg arts centre run by Boros GmbH. A 2015 outdoor installation by Gustavo Aceves, with life-size horses, addressed migration and asylum at the Brandenburg Gate.

    Matches: Politics

  23. restaurant

    Marie.

    Opens Mon 09:00 Mitte Price: Mid-range

    A bistro inside the Bundestag serving daily changing lunch dishes, with themed evenings where social questions are discussed over a meal.

    Matches: Politics