Berlin’s Top 10 : Museums

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Ägyptisches Museum: www.smb.museum


Museum für Naturkunde: www.museum.hu-berlin.de



  1. Pergamonmuseum

    Berlin’s most impressive museum is a vast treasure trove of antiquities .

  2. Ägyptisches Museum

    The
    star exhibit in the Egyptian Museum, part of the Neues Museum, is the
    beautiful bust of Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaton. The long-necked
    limestone bust, discovered in 1912, probably served as a model. Also
    worth seeing is the “Berlin Green Head”, a small bust from the 4th
    century BC. The museum also holds numerous mummies, sarcophagi, murals
    and sculptures.

    • Museumsinsel, Bodestr. 1–3

    • 10am–6pm Mon–Sun, until 10pm Thu

    • 030 266 36 60

    • Admission charge

  3. Deutsches Historisches Museum

    Germany’s
    largest History Museum uses unique exhibits, documents and films to
    take the visitor on a journey through German history, from the Middle
    Ages to the present day. Special exhibitions are devoted to particular
    themes .

  4. Dahlem Museums

    The
    three museums based in southwest Berlin are a fantastic resource of
    exotic and historic European cultures. The Museum of Ethnology is
    devoted to the cultures of the Pacific, North and South America as well
    as Africa. The Museum of Asian Art has exquisite collections from China,
    Japan, India and Southeast Asia. The Museum of European Cultures
    reopens in September 2010. Its collections will eventually move to the
    new Humboldt-Forum.

  5. Jüdisches Museum

    The
    Jewish Museum, housed in a spectacular building designed by Daniel
    Libeskind, documents the German–Jewish relationship through the
    centuries. There are special exhibitions on the influence of Berlin Jews
    on the town’s cultural life, and on the life of the Enlightenment
    philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. An empty room commemorates the loss of
    Jewish culture. There is also an exciting programme of special events .




    The Jewish Museum

  6. Deutsches Technikmuseum

    The
    fascinating Museum of Technology, on the site of a former station, has
    fascinating hands-on displays on the history of technology.

  7. Kunstgewerbemuseum

    European
    crafts from over five centuries are on display at this museum. Its most
    valuable exhibits are the treasure of the Guelphs from Braunschweig and
    the silver treasure of the town council in Lüneburg. The museum also
    holds valuable Italian tinglazed earthenware, Renaissance faïence and
    German Baroque glass and ceramics. Popular displays show Neo-Classical
    porcelain and furniture, Jugendstil art and Tiffany vases, as well as
    20th-century Art-Deco and modern designs.

    • Matthäikirchplatz

    • 10am–6pm Tue-Fri, 11am–6pm Sat, Sun

    • 030 266 2902

    • Admission charge

  8. Museum für Naturkunde

    With
    over 60 million exhibits, the Natural History Museum is one of the
    largest of its kind. One of the star features is the world’s largest
    dinosaur skeleton, a brachiosaurus found in Tanzania in 1909. There are
    six further dinosaur skeletons as well as many fossils of mussels, birds
    and mammals. Together, they take the visitor back to prehistoric times.
    It is also worth making a visit to the glittering exhibition of
    meteorites and minerals.

    • Invalidenstr. 43

    • 9:30am–5pm Tue–Fri, 10am–6pm Sat & Sun

    • Admission charge

  9. Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

    The museum at the former Allied checkpoint documents events at the Berlin Wall .




  10. Musikinstrumenten-museum

    Some
    750 musical instruments can be heard in this museum, including such
    famous ones as Frederick the Great’s harpsichord. Don’t miss the
    silent-film organ which still works (first Sat in the month, noon).

    • Ben-Gurion-Str. 1

    • 9am–5pm Tue–Fri, until 10pm Thu, 10am–5pm Sat, Sun

    • Admission charge