Took an English guided tour. Note that tickets are cash only and the tour is 2 hours…read more The tour was thorough and very informative. Our tour guide gave us a realistic sense of what it was like to be taken to this prison, as well as what life was like as a prisoner. We got to see and be inside of cells as well as interrogation rooms. Overall, the visit was worth the time and money. Would recommend this to family and friends visiting Berlin.

Hohenschönhausen used to not even be marked on maps - it was that secret. Today you can take guided…read moretours around the eerie buildings. Still and quiet except for the various groups, it all comes to chilling life when tales of it's history are recited. It is the background to the confession scenes in the film The Lives of Others. The idea of it alone is terrifying. And yet there we stood, on a fairly sunny day, listening to a young American woman tell us about the atrocities that occurred here. The place is now a museum and memorial located in Berlin's north-eastern Lichtenberg district. It was opened in 1994 on the site of the main prison of the former East German Communist Ministry of State Security, better known as the Stasi. The memorial was founded in the early 1990s by former inmates. We heard that former prisoners occasionally give the tours. We were on the English tour and a young American woman gave our tour and was a wealth of information. Highly recommend this historic site.

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.

The tower is always very nice. It has a view over Berlin. Unfortunately, you pay EUR 3 entrance…read morefee, of which 1 EUR EUR to spend in the tower are. A kind of coercion. So one can also increase sales. But he is always freshly renovated one target value.