The striking Marzahn high-rise silhouette - who does not know it: In Erich Honecker's time, the prefabricated housing estates built in typical GDR architecture are the superlatives of a large housing estate in Germany. Hundreds of thousands of new apartments…
In June 2018, the exhibition "Insight into Secrets" opened in "House 7" at the Stasi headquarters, with the aim of making the Stasi documents archive and its significance for the present more comprehensible.
Am Grundstein unserer Demokratie (At the Cornerstone of Our Democracy)
Many of the Berliners who took to the streets on 18 March 1848 for a better life were simple, often young people. Most of them were bitterly poor. Numerous apprentices, craftsmen and workers were there, including some women. They were all united by the courage…
Now that the Etruscans and Romans on the building's upper floor have already enthralled thousands of visitors since their unveiling in July 2010, the Collection of Classical Antiquities is about to present its world-famous collection of Greek art in a wholly…
Photos and texts provide an overview of the history of the Archenhold Sternwarte from its beginnings to today. A chronological and thematic presentation also reveals political and cultural connections.
Its main attraction is the Pergamon Altar (2nd century BC). The frieze depicting the battle between the Gods and Giants is regarded as a masterpiece of Hellenistic art.
Due to the current restrictions on public life imposed by the State of Berlin to combat the Corona Pandemic, the institution will be temporarily closed from November 02, 2020.
Barack 13 was one of the first buildings of the camp, started to be built in 1943. Between 1944 and 1945 there were Italian military internees and civilian workers accommodated here. Numerous inscriptions with names and dates, which can be visited in the…
The Pertrix Company, a subsidiary of the Quandt Group company AFA (Akkumulatorenfabrik AG) produceded dry batteries and flashlights for the Wehrmacht and delivered igniter batteries for warplanes to the German Air Force. Batteries were a central product of the…
Bäuerliches Plaisir und Goldrubinglas (Rural Plaisir and gold ruby glass)
Inspired by Jean Jacques Rousseau's motto "Back to Nature", the European aristocracy had "jewelry farms" built at the end of the 18th century. In scenic architecture, the distinguished court society staged its romantic notions of "simple country life".
The exhibition “Berlin 1933–1945: Between Propaganda and Terror” addresses National Socialist policy in Berlin and its consequences for the city and its population. It shows how the National Socialists were able to gain a foothold in “red” Berlin and gradually…
Due to the current restrictions on public life imposed by the State of Berlin to combat the Corona Pandemic, the institution will be temporarily closed from November 02, 2020.
This event was unfortunately cancelled for the period
13.03.2020 - 19.04.2020. Here
you can find information on event cancellations in Berlin and surroundings.
About 200 years ago, the journalist Ludwig Börne noted astonished during a visit to Berlin: "People of all kinds are so mixed up here that one often finds them in places where one does not expect them. And he was right. In Berlin, many things were already…
Only military allies, then alleged "traitors": By the autumn of 1943 German and Italian soldiers fighting together on the fronts of World War II. But on 8 September 1943, the Italian Government under Marshal Pietro Badoglio terminated this alliance.
