Berlin’s Top 10 : Children’s Attractions

Deutsches Technikmuseum

The
technology museum is a giant playground for children, excellent for
learning through play. There are locomotives to clamber over, windmills
to play with and the exhibition “Spektrum”, where older children can
conduct their own physics and chemistry experiments .

Labyrinth Kindermuseum

Berlin’s
Museum for Children is particularly suitable for children at the
preschool stage and in the early school years. Three or four themed
exhibitions each year deal with subjects in a child-friendly and
entertaining way – for example “Snoops and Detectives”. Every exhibition
is interactive, allowing children to join in and experiment, becoming
independent through their experiences in play.

• Osloer Str. 12

• 1–6pm Tue–Fri; 1–6pm Sat; 11am–6pm Sun

• 030 8009 31150

• Admission charge

Grips-Theater

This famous Berlin theater for children and young people has been showing the hit musical Linie 1
for over ten years. The play, which is best suited to older children
and adolescents, tells of the exciting life in the big city, using a
U-Bahn line running from East to West Berlin as a metaphor. All shows
are in German.

• Altonaer Str. 22

• Phone for performance times

• 030 39 74 740

• Admission charge

Museum für Naturkunde

Berlin’s
museum of natural history has the biggest dinosaur skeleton on show
anywhere in the world. The collections here are well presented .

Zoologischer Garten

If
you are visiting Berlin with children you should not miss out on the
Zoo. Particular favourites are the Monkey House (with baby gorillas and
chimpanzees) and the Baby Zoo, where children are allowed to touch and
feed the young of various animal species.

Filmpark Babelsberg

Exciting
shootouts, a walk-on film set with a U-boat, a town on an island and a
small town in the Wild West are the most popular attractions at the film
park – and not just with the children. A tour of the former UFA-Film
studios lets visitors look behind the scenes: children try out make-up
and costumes and admire the “sandman”, a TV figure popular with children
in East Germany since 1959. Everywhere in the park you will encounter
props and figures from well-known German films. “Special effects” are
demonstrated on the visitors in an imaginative exhibition. The “World of
Horror” chills more than just children’s spines.

• Großbeerenstr., Potsdam

• Mar–Nov: 10am–6pm daily; Jul–Aug: 10am–8pm daily

• Closed Mon–Fri in Sep

• 0331 721 27 50

• Admission charge

ZEISS-Großraumplanetarium

Artificial stars, planets and nebu lae take you to far-away galaxies under the silvery dome of the Planetarium .

Legoland

This
is the world’s first indoor Legoland. Apart from the rides (best for
children under 8), thousands of LEGO bricks can be turned into replicas
of Berlin sights. There is also a 4D cinema and a café.

• Potsdamer Str. 4

• 030 301 04 00

• 10am–7pm daily (last admission 5pm)

• Admission charge

Puppentheatermuseum

The
small but excellent and inspirational Puppet Museum specializes in
dolls and puppets. Children are allowed to perform their own puppet
shows and have a go at being puppet theatre directors.

• Karl-Marx-Str. 135

• 9:30am–3pm Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm Sun

• 030 687 81 32

• Admission charge

AquaDom and Sea Life Berlin

In
the Sea Life centre, visitors are invited on a journey from the Spree
River and Lake Wannsee to the depths of the oceans. A mirror maze and
fish feeding sessions add to the fun along the way. The biggest
attraction awaits at the end of the journey – a lift ride up through the
centre of the AquaDom – the world’s largest cylindrical aquarium with
over 1,500 tropical fish.

• Spandauer Str. 3

• 10am–7pm daily (last admission 6pm)

• 01805 666 90 101

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• Admission charge