I felt this was extremely powerful. There is a free audioguide you can use with your phone from a…read moreQR code on the map. Along the way they offer sights/memorials to the times of The Wall. This is a complete free activity unless you join a tour. There are plenty of materials to read, buttons to press and listen to information, and things to see.

Yelp Review 2023 #300…read more "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" US President Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall was built to separate East (German Democratic Republic supported by the Soviets) and West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) in 1961. It's a 96 mile heavily guarded concrete wall about 13 feet high splitting the city center so that people from the East won't come to the West due to political and economic differences. There's not a doubt building a wall is alienating. Friends and families got separated by it. Soldiers and watchdogs were put in place to prevent people escaping but some people were still able to get to the West by building a tunnel but most people didn't make it across and lost their lives. Gorbachev was in power of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union in 1985 and things started to dismantle. The wall finally fell in 1989. Some parts of the wall still remain standing and murals have been painted on parts of the wall. The most famous mural is "The Kiss" by Dmitri Vrubel of Leonid Brezhnev (General Secretary of the Soviet Union at the time), and Erich Honecker (General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of the GDR) kissing - the socialist way of greeting. You can also spot a Banksy. Keep your eyes peeled since it's not a big and colorful piece. It's free to walk along and see the Berlin Wall remains.

This venue is free, and very interesting. The architecture is beautiful and there is a huge…read morecircular stairway in the center. There is a lot of material about the history of government and democracy in Germany. Interesting pictures and movies of parliamentary presentations including by Hitler.

This is the crossing point divide between west and east Berlin. We came here with our tour guide…read moreand he explained the US vs the Russian side. This was an interesting part of history and to see the photos explaining some big points in the history where there was conduct between both sides. It is free with limited parking.

Total tourist trap, there's a small display in the middle of the road that looks like a hollywood…read moreset more than anything. One gets zero feel for what it actually must have looked like. Skip it unless you enjoy seeing people almost get hit by cars. Some good souvenir shops is about it.