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the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin manages the Maerkische Museum, the museums in Nikolai quarter, the museums in Nicolaihaus and Galgenhaus, the Collection Childhood and Youth, the museum's village Dueppel, the open air museum Domaene Dahlem and the exhibitions in Friedrichsfelde palace: www.stadtmuseum.de
Museumsinsel island, Dahlem and Charlottenburg museums
National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
Berlin and Potsdam palaces and parks
Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de
museums in the surroundings of Berlin e.g. in Potsdam
www.museen-brandenburg.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.museen-brandenburg.de
detailed description of the location and architecture of Berlin's museums
'Walks through Berlin. Museums'
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen
Pre & Early History, Greek & Roman Art, Old Egyptian, Near East, Indian, East Asian & Islamic Art & Culture, Ethnology: Museumsinsel Island, Schloss Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin-Dahlem Museums
Museumsinsel island, Dahlem and Charlottenburg museums
National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
Berlin and Potsdam palaces and parks
Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens
www.spsg.de
Broehan Museum
Regional Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889-1939)
Schloss-Strasse 1a (across Schloss Charlottenburg palace)
14059 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 32 69 06 - 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 32 69 06 - 26
www.broehan-museum.de
info@broehan-museum.de
Bruecke Museum
Bussardsteig 9
14195 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 8 31 20 29
Fax: ++49 +30 - 8 31 59 61
www.bruecke-museum.de
bruecke-museum@t-online.de
Berlin's university is in charge of the Botanical Museum in the Dahlem Botanical Garden
Koenigin-Luise-Strasse 6-8
104191 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 83 85 00 27,
Fax: ++49 +30 - 83 85 01 86,
www.bgbm.org
a 'raisin bomb' plane from the times of the airlift is hanging in front of the Deutsche Technikmuseum Berlin
Trebbiner Strasse 9
10963 Kreuzberg
Tel: ++49 +30 - 9 02 54 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 9 02 54 - 175
www.dtmb.de
info@dtmb.de
the Telekom telecommunications company is in charge of the Museum fuer Kommunikation
Leipziger Strasse 16
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 20 29 40
Fax: ++49 +30 - 20 29 41 11
www.museumsstiftung.de
mk.berlin@mspt.de
Natural Science Museum
Humboldt University
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 20 93 85 91
Fax: ++49 +30 - 20 93 85 61
www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de
in 1987 East Berlin's observatory opened the doors in Ulrich Muether's swinging concrete shell
Zeiss Grossplanetarium
Prenzlauer Allee 80
10405 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 42 18 45 12
www.astw.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.astw.de
Loxx Miniaturwelten
Meinekestrasse 24
10719 Berlin
www.loxx-berlin..com
info@loxx-berlin.de
the world´s largest model railway with digital PHS-control in the scale of 1:87 (H0)showing Berlin's municipal, regional, national and international trains
Art, Architecture & Design
information on museums at Kulturforum
National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
Bauhaus history, collections, exhibitions & library in a museums' building designed by Walter Gropius, built from 1976 to 1979
Bauhaus Archiv - Museum fuer Gestaltung
Klingelhoeferstrasse 14
10785 Berlin Tiergarten
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 78
Fax: ++49 +30 - 25 40 02 10
www.bauhaus.de
bauhaus@bauhaus.de
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fuer Gegenwart Berlin
Invalidenstrasse 50-51
10557 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 39 78 34 - 11
Fax: ++49 +30 - 39 78 34 - 13
www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
hbf.smb.spk-berlin.de
modern art in 1847's station - and a restaurant www.sarahwieners.de
or you go to the Heinrich Zille Museum in the Nikolai quarter:
Probststrasse 11
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 30 - 24 63 25 00
Fax: ++49 30 - 24 64 25 02
www.heinrich-zille-museum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.heinrich-zille-museum.de
info@heinrich-zille-museum.de
Kaethe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Fasanenstrasse 24
10719 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 8 82 52 10
Fax: ++49 +30 - 8 81 19 01
www.kaethe-kollwitz.de
please scroll down - there is an English version of the website
info@kaethe-kollwitz.de
Broehan Museum
Regional Museum for Art Nouveau, Art Deco and Functionalism (1889-1939)
Schloss-Strasse 1a (across Schloss Charlottenburg palace)
14059 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 32 69 06 - 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 32 69 06 - 26
www.broehan-museum.de
info@broehan-museum.de
information on the Sammlung Berggruen collection
National Museums of Berlin
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
Bruecke Museum
Bussardsteig 9
14195 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 8 31 20 29
Fax: ++49 +30 - 8 31 59 61
www.bruecke-museum.de
bruecke-museum@t-online.de
at Lake Wannsee you visit the restorated summer house of Max Liebermann: the villa exhibits Max Liebermann's paintings and a documentation on his life
Liebermann-Villa
Colomierstrasse 3
Ecke Am Großen Wannsee
14109 Berlin
Telefon: ++49 + 30 805 83 83 0
Fax: ++49 +30 805 83 83 2
www.max-liebermann.de
info@liebermann-villa.de
Berlin's housing associations revive empty prefabricated concrete tower blocks, in Hellersdorfer Strasse 173 and 175 young artists, architects and designers redecorate two high rise buildings, in No 179 a museum exhibits Wohnungs-Standard WBS 70 - a model flat out of the GDR's 1980's: floral wallcovering and settee, a carpet from Ulan-Bator and kitchen chairs from Tirana (Kottbusser Platz, U5, the museum's apartment is opened on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 14:00 hours to 18:00 hours, Sundays from 14:00 hours to 16:00 hours, information / appointment ++49 +30 - 9 90 11 61, the housing association 'Stadt und Land' is in charge www.stadtundland.de
at the Spree river, opposite to the Berliner Dom cathedral
DDR-Museum
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 1
10435 Berlin
Tel: 0 30 - 847 123 73-1
www.ddr-museum.de
post@ddr-museum.de
"watch TV in an authentic GDR living room, rummage through the drawers of the Carat wall unit, have a sniff at the spice rack in the kitchen and marvel at the pressure cooker left on the stove. Visitors are also invited to watch gripping documentaries while sitting in original cinema seats, prove their skills on the football table and replay the only match that ever occurred between West and East Germany during the 1974 World Cup, or even dance the 'Lipsi'"
Berliner & deutsche Geschichte
multimedia time travel through Berlin's history
The Story of Berlin
im Kudamm-Karree
Kurfürstendamm 207-208
Hotline: 0 30 - 8 87 01 00
www.story-of-berlin.de
info@story-of-berlin.de
the Zeughaus is a Baroque arsenal built in 1706, from 2006 onwards the
Deutsche Historische Museum - German history museum - will stage a permanent exhibition on German history
Unter den Linden 2
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 03 04 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 03 04 - 5 43
www.dhm.de
at present changing exhibitions are shown in the modern annex by I.M.Pei
the Hugenottenmuseum documents the history of the French immigrants recruited in the 17th century
Franzoesischer Dom
Consistorium der Franzoesischen Kirche
Gendarmenmarkt 5
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 29 17 60
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 04 15 05
www.franzoesische-kirche.de
the website is German only, try google's translation tool: www.franzoesische-kirche.de
Buero@franzoesische-kirche.de
information on the Hugenot Museum, on services & events of the French Reformed Community
there is an exhibition on 1848's revolutionary events in the
Deutscher Dom
Ways - Wrong Routes - Detours - The Development of Parliamentary Democracy in Germany
Exhibition by the German Parliament
Gendarmenmarkt 1
10117 Berlin
www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
German only page - try google's translation tool: www.bundestag.de/bau_kunst/ausst/wege/
ausstellungsbuero2.pi5@bundestag.de
the Jewish Museum documents two thousand years of German Jewish history
Lindenstrasse 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel: 0 30 - 2 59 93 - 3 00
Fax: 0 30 - 2 59 93 - 4 09
www.jmberlin.de
info@jmberlin.de
fuehrungen@jmberlin.de
information on the architecture of the museum's building, permanent and changing exhibitions, guided tours, collections & publications, special programmes for children & youths, the Leo Baeck archive and the restaurant Liebermann
the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin manages the Maerkische Museum, the museums in Nikolai quarter, the museums in Nicolaihaus and Galgenhaus, the Collection Childhood and Youth, the museum's village Dueppel, the open air museum Domaene Dahlem and the exhibitions in Friedrichsfelde palace: www.stadtmuseum.de
the Knoblauch-Haus in the Nikolai quarter shows 19th century interiors, the Foundation Stadtmuseum Berlin is in charge: www.stadtmuseum.de,
and there are the
supporters of the Museum - family and friends: www.knoblauchhaus.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.knoblauchhaus.de
Poststrasse 23
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 24 00 20 - 1 71
at present the museum is closed for renovation
the museum's village Dueppel has got a supporters club:
www.dueppel.de
the website is German only try google's translation tool: www.dueppel.de
the true story of the Captain of Koepenick arresting the mayor and confiscating the treasury was made famous by Carl Zuckmayer's play and a film with Heinz Ruehmann, in Koepenick today, you find an exhibition on the Captain in the Rathaus Koepenick council house
Alt-Koepenick 21
12555 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 61 72 - 33 51
Fax: ++49 +30 - 61 72 - 33 52
www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:
www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
info@heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the Anti War Museum shows exhibits from two World Wars:
Bruesseler Strasse 21
13353 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 95 49 01 10
www.anti-kriegs-museum.de
Anti-Kriegs-Museum@gmx.de
the museum was founded by a pacifist in the 1920's
the Gedenkstaette Koepenicker Blutwoche Juni 1933 commemorates Koepenick's victims of SA torture
Puchanstrasse 12
12555 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 6 57 14 67
Fax: ++49 +30 - 61 72 33 52
www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.heimatmuseum-koepenick.de
the headquarters of the National Socialist SS, the Secret State Police Gestapo and the Main Imperial Security Office used to be located at Niederkirchner Strasse, their history is documented by the exhibition Topographie des Terrors
www.topographie.de
Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand - German Resistance Memorial
Staufenbergstrasse 13-14
10785 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 26 99 - 50 00
Fax: ++49 +30 - 26 99 - 50 10
www.gdw-berlin.de
info@gdw-berlin.de
exhibition on German resistance from Christian to Communist groups in the former Bendlerblock -
here the generals of July 20, 1944 were shot
other conjurers of July 20 died in Ploetzensee jail
Huettigpfad
13627 Berlin
www.gedenkstaette-ploetzensee.de
information on the history and photographs of the remodeling of the Olympic Stadion for the Football World Championship in 2006: www.olympiastadion-berlin.de
in the former Reichsluftfahrt - aviation ministry - today's ministry of finance tries to animate the building felt to be "monumental and intimidating"
Wilhelmstrasse 97
14109 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +18 88 - 6 82 - 0
Fax: ++49 +18 88 - 6 82 - 32 60
http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: http://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de
poststelle@bmf.bund.de
the visitors' service offers tours through the house
in the Haus am Wannsee, the SS and the ministers of the respective departments coordinated the deportation and murder of European Jews
Haus der Wannseekonferenz
memorial and documentation center
Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58
14109 Berlin
Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 8 05 00 10
www.ghwk.de
info@ghwk.de
German-Russian Museum Karlshorst
Zwieselstrasse 4 / corner Rheinsteinstrasse
10318 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 50 15 08 10
Fax: ++49 +30 - 50 15 08 40
www.mauer-museum.com
kontakt@museum-karlshorst.de
there is an English version for every page
German-Soviet history from 1917 onwards
the Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens is in charge of the last Hohenzollern palace Schloss Cecilienhof in Potsdam
www.spsg.de
Schloss Cecilienhof is part of the UNESCO's World Heritage
the conference rooms of the Potsdam Agreement have been preserved since 1945.
detailed description of the Berlin Wall
'Walks through Berlin. Wall Tour'
Senate Department for Urban Development
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/bauen/wanderungen
www.die-berliner-mauer.de
documentation of the wall including photographs of the East Side Gallery at Oberbaumbruecke bridge
the Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie's former transit point organises exhibitions, guided tours and lectures
Friedrichstrasse 43 - 45
10923 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 25 29 62 45
Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 51 20 75
www.mauer-museum.com
Dokumentation Center Berlin Wall
Bernauer Strasse 111
13355 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 14 64 10 30
Fax: ++49 +30 - 46 06 97 40
www.berliner-mauer-dokumentationszentrum.de
Memorial Notaufnahmelager Berlin Marienfelde
Marienfelder Allee 66-80
12277 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 90 17 33 25
Fax: ++49 +30 - 90 17 31 90
www.enm-berlin.de
enm-berlin@gmx.de
exhibition on German-German immigration
Allies Museum
Clay-Allee 135 - Outpost
14195 Berlin - Zehlendorf
Tel: ++49 +30 - 81 81 99 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 81 81 99 - 91
www.alliiertenmuseum.de
documentation of the presence of the Allies in Berlin from 1945 to 1994.
Research Center and Memorial Normannenstrasse
Normannenstrasse 22, Haus 1
10365 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 54
Fax: ++49 +30 - 5 53 68 53
www.stasi-museum.de
mfsmuseum@aol.com
building of the GDR Ministry for State Security, you can visit minister Erich Mielke's office
Memorial Berlin-Hohenschoenhausen
Genslerstrasse 66
13055 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 98 60 82 - 30
Fax: ++49 +30 - 98 60 82 - 4 64
www.stiftung-hsh.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.stiftung-hsh.de
info@stiftung-hsh.de
the former remand prison of the GDR Ministry for State Security
a former prison of the GDR state security in Potsdam
Memorial Lindenstrasse
Lindenstrasse 24
14467 Potsdam
Tel: ++49 +3 31 - 2 89 68 - 03
you find information on the memorial by clicking into www.museen-brandenburg.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.museen-brandenburg.de
some of 1920's Scheunenviertel atmosphere can be felt in the interior of the Mulackritze pub - with whores' room - in the Gruenderzeitmuseum of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Hultschiner Damm 333
12623 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 5 67 83 29
Fax: ++49 +30 - 56 59 48 73
www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.gruenderzeitmuseum.de
Claire Waldoff was here, Heinrich Zille, Gustav Gruendgens, Marlene Dietrich and Henny Porten
you can buy Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's autobiography "I am my own wife"
via amazon.com or via amazon.co.uk
information on the broadway play about Charlotte von Mahlsdorf / Lothar Berfelde:
www.iammyownwife.com
"for adults only"
Erotic Museum Beate Uhse
Joachimsthaler Strasse 4 / Ecke Kantstraße
10623 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 8 86 06 66
2000 years and more than 5000 erotic exhibits shown at Kurfuerstendamm
the Museum fuer Fotografie of the Helmut Newton Foundation at Kurfuerstendamm avenue
Berlin National Museums
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
homosexual life from 1850 up to today
Schwules - gay - Museum Berlin
Mehringdamm 61
10961 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 69 59 90 50
Fax: ++49 +30 - 61 20 22 89
www.schwulesmuseum.de
kontakt@schwulesmuseum.de
the Filmmuseum Berlin shows the history of German cinema from the beginnings up to today - e.g. Marlene Dietrich's estate:
Potsdamer Strasse 2, Filmhaus (Sony-Center)
10785 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 30 09 03 - 0
Fax: ++49 +30 - 30 09 03 - 13
www.filmmuseum-berlin.de
info@filmmuseum-berlin.de
Babelsberg became film city in 1912, today, in the summer months, visitors look behind the scenery and watch stunt shows in the
Filmpark Babelsberg
August-Bebel-Strasse 26-53
14482 Potsdam
Tel: ++49 +3 31 - 7 21 27 50
Fax: ++49 +3 31 - 7 21 27 37
www.filmpark.de
the website is German only
info@filmpark.de
the Filmmuseum Potsdam documents more than 80 years of Babelsberg Film History
Marstall at Lustgarten
14467 Potsdam
Tel: 03 31 - 2 71 81 - 0
Fax: 03 31 - 2 71 81 - 26
www.filmmuseum-potsdam.de
info@filmmuseum-potsdam.de
GDR DEFA films are shown in the
Kino Blowup
Immanuelkirch Strasse 14
10405 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 4 42 86 62
Fax: ++9 +30 4 42 85 39
www.kinoblowup.de
the website is German only
KinoBlowUp@t-online.de
the Humboldt University is in charge of the
Mori Ogai Memorial
Luisenstrasse 39
10117 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 2 82 60 97
Fax: ++49 +30 2 81 50 68
www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/japanologie/mog/index.html
the website is German and Japanese - try google's translation tool:
www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/japanologie/mog/index.html
beate.weber@rz.hu-berlin.de
Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel moved to Chausseestrasse after 1945
Literaturforum im Brechthaus
Chausseestrasse 125
10115 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 82 20 03,
Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 82 34 17
www.lfbrecht.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool: www.lfbrecht.de
info@lfbrecht.de
you can visit the work rooms of Bertold Brecht and Helene Weigel, there are lectures and readings
the academy of arts is in charge of the
Anna Seghers Memorial
Anna-Seghers-Strasse 81
12489 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 - 2 82 20 03,
Tel/Fax: ++49 +30 - 2 82 34 17
www.adk.de/deutsch/gedenkstaetten_seghers_fst.html
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:
www.adk.de/deutsch/gedenkstaetten_seghers_fst.html
pfeil@adk.de
Cannabis Museum
Muehlendamm 5
10178 Berlin
Tel: ++49 +30 2 42 48 27
www.hanfmuseum.de
the website is German only - try google's translation tool:
www.hanfmuseum.de
info@hanfmuseum.de
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