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Schloβ Charlottenburg
CHARLOTTENBURG
Spandauer Damm 10-22
}030 320 92 75
This expansive Baroque palace, commissioned by Friedrich I in the 1600s as a gift for his wife, Sophia-Charlotte, could …
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Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum
CHARLOTTENBURG
Fasanenstr. 24
}030 882 52 10; www.kaethe-kollwitz.de
Through both World Wars, Käthe Kollwitz, a member of the Berlin Sezession (Secession) movement and one of Germany’s most…
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Grunewald and the Jagdschloß
SCHÖNEBERG AND WILMERSDORF
Am Grunewaldsee 29 (Access from Pücklerstr.)
}030 813 35 97; www.spsg.de
This 3 sq. km park, with winding paths through wild underbrush, gridded pines, and a peaceful lake, is popular dog-walki…
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
MITTE
Cora-Berliner-Str. 1
}030 263 94 311; www.stiftung-denkmal.de‎
Stark concrete blocks arranged in a grid pattern across an entire city block commemorate the Jews killed by the Nazis. T…
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Homosexual Memorial
MITTE
On Ebertstr.
; www.stiftung-denkmal.de/en/homosexualmemorial
While Berlin’s acceptance of homosexuality is matched by few other places in the world, it wasn’t so until 1969. Before …
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Pergamon Museum
MITTE
Am Kupfergraben 5
}030 209 05 577; www.smb.museum
As long as it kept its two main exhibits, the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate, the rest of this museum could display …
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Neue Nationalgalerie
MITTE
Potsdamer Str. 50
}030 266 424 510; www.smb.museum
With some of the most famous and inspired works of the early German Modernists, this museum is a rare look at the master…
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Topography of Terror
MITTE
Niederkirchner Str. 8
}030 254 50 950; www.topographie.de
This exhibit opened in May 2010 and tracks the origins, development, and deployment of Nazi terror from 1930 to 1946. Sp…
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Mauerpark
PRENZLAUER BERG
Extends north of the intersection between Eberswalder Str. and Schwedter Str.
Like Berlin, Mauerpark on a hot afternoon is an amalgam of a thousand different things that shouldn’t exist in the same …
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Berliner Mauer Dokumentationszentrum
PRENZLAUER BERG
Bernauer Str. 111
}030 464 10 30; www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de
A remembrance complex, museum, chapel, and entire city block of the preserved Berlin Wall come together as a memorial to…
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Volkspark Friedrichshain
FRIEDRICHSHAIN
Volkspark Friedrichshain may lose out to the Tiergarten in a battle of bulk, but as Berlin’s oldest park, it makes the T…
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East Side Gallery
FRIEDRICHSHAIN
Along Mühlenstr.
; ww.eastsidegallery.com
The longest remaining portion of the Berlin Wall, this 1.3km stretch of cement slabs has been converted into the world’s…
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Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
KREUZBERG
Trebbiner Str. 9
}030 902 54 0; www.sdtb.de
Don’t tell the National Air and Space Museum about this place. With 30 full-sized airplanes, 20 boats—including a full-s…
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Soviet War Memorial
KREUZBERG
Treptower Park
This 20,000 sq. m memorial, built in 1949 to commemorate the Soviet soldiers lost in the Battle of Berlin, makes Mitte’s…
Museum Berggruen
CHARLOTTENBURG
Schloßstr. 1
}030 326 95 80
Think Picasso is a jerk whose art doesn’t deserve the hype? This sunny museum will obliterate your anti-Picasso sentimen…
Olympiastadion
CHARLOTTENBURG
Olympischer Pl. 3 (Visitors Center)
}030 250 02 322; www.olypiastadion-berlin.de
This massive Nazi-built stadium comes in a close second to Tempelhof Airport in the list of monumental Third Reich build…
Bröhanmuseum
CHARLOTTENBURG
Schloßstr. 1A
}030 326 90 600; www.broehan-museum.de
If you’re wondering where all the stuff you couldn’t sell at your great-aunt’s estate sale went, here it is. Though a mu…
Zoologischer Garten
CHARLOTTENBURG
8 Hardenberg Pl.
}030 254 010; www.zoo-berlin.de www.aquarium-berlin.de
Germany’s oldest zoo houses around 14,000 animals of 1500 species, most in open-air habitats connected by winding pathwa…
Brücke Museum
SCHÖNEBERG AND WILMERSDORF
Bussardsteig 9
}030 831 20 29; www.brueckemusuem.de
Die Brücke (The Bridge) was a short-lived but influential part of German Expressionism, a period when figuration had beg…
Alter Sankt-Matthäus-Kirchhof
SCHÖNEBERG AND WILMERSDORF
On Großgörschen Str., right next to the lower Yorckstr. S-Bahn Station entrance.
This expansive, sloping cemetery isolated from the city by tall trees and hushed gardens conceals the graves of some of …

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