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    Neues Museum

    4.2 (93 reviews)
    Open 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
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    Kate C.

    Like many others, I came here to see Nefertiti's bust. It was just as amazing as I imagined in my head! However, the rest of the museum is also a treat! They have an amazing collection of Egyptian art.

    L L.

    One thing on my bucket list is seeing the bust of Queen Nefertiti in person and I got to check it off on this trip. The museum is not big but well organized. They have world class artifacts and clear explanations to go with them - in an intuitive story telling approach. Of course, the featured display of Queen Nefertiti statue was not a disappointment despite my high expectation from decades of waiting. This is a must see museum while you are in Berlin.

    Nefertiti: the main attraction
    Michelle R.

    I would give 5 stars if I could understand why the museum lets you take photos of everything inside EXCEPT Nefertiti. Come on... It's not like people can't take it without flash. It's now a challenge to see WHO can take a photo when the 3 guards are distracted. I felt like it was a scene from THE PINK PANTHER. Obviously there's many yelpers who got a contraband photo, so it can be done! If you're going to visit the museums, get a 3 day museum pass, even if you are going 1 or 2 days. It's more cost effective if you plan on seeing multiple museums.

    From the Neues Museum's extensive Egyptian collection.
    Mark H.

    Wasn't able to secure a ticket on my visit to Berlin last year. However, this year it wasn't a problem. The Neues Museum is still crowded but they stagger the ticket entry times so that the number of visitors is never overwhelming. The renovation of the museum by British architect David Chipperfield is striking. The organization of the artifacts (spanning a number of centuries) is quite good and the explanations (often in English as well as German) lucid. The collection ranges from prehistoric objects to the famous Egyptian collection (e.g., the famous Nefertiti's head) to the Middle Ages. My only complaint is the guards are a bit overzealous in their 'no photography' policy of certain objects. But that didn't prevent me from getting a non-flash cell cam pic of Nefertiti! Take that mein Herr!

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    Rich H.

    A few exceptional pieces, many good ones, but on the whole just ok compared to similar world class museums.

    Entrance of the museum.
    Torterry C.

    Neues Museum is one of the museum in museums island. I always wanted to visit this museum but didn't come up with the right timing. Eventually I came, and I am so glad I did. This museum is hug, and full of amazing collections. There are 4 floors in total in this museum, the ground floor offer many the collection of Vestibule, West Foyer, Schliemann's Tory and so on. The Egyptian Courtyard is one of my favorite part of this place. From the basement the view event cooler, you can also visit the Greek Courtyard down here, I personal did enjoy the exhibition from the upper floors, when I first step in to this floor, I was simply amazed by the mixture of the ancient and modern time. Many interesting things and Nefertiti are also at this floor. The last floor holds the collections from the Old and Middle Stone Age, Art of the Ice Age to Iron Age and more. Very interesting as well. If you didn't so much time, I suggest that you could just a have a quick look at the ground floor, spend more time in the other three. Just to get there earlier if you could, you will need it. The staff here are ok, not particular friendly thought. There cloakroom, café, education department, lookers, bookshop, very well and thoughtful system. Thus, I like this museum. I found it a bit funny the name of the museum " Neues Museum", in English kinda mean "new museum", but the whole collection inside actually very (old) historical. Hehe, well, if you like to visit museums, this is one of the museum you shouldn't miss.

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    Great museum, highly recommend visiting along with Pergamon and the museum island. Terrific architecture.

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    I came here for one thing, and one thing only, and that was to see THE queen of the Nile, Nefertiti.

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    DDR Museum - Old school DDR kitchen

    DDR Museum

    3.9(222 reviews)
    0.3 kmMitte

    Very interesting museum, but its inside a small location. They did a good job packing it with…read moreinformation, but many of the exhibits require you to open doors or slides to get the descriptions. If its packed full of people, then it gets super awkward trying to look over people's shoulders, etc. But, the history is super fascinating, and the displays are a look into the life of a GDR citizen, which has disappeared once the wall came down. Cool stuff, but go on a less busy day to get the full vibe out of the place.

    Open 9am to 9pm daily, 365 days a year, this museum is small but a fun, interactive and educational…read moreexperience featuring the history, culture, and daily lives of people during the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) (or in English--German Democratic Republic, GDR). I arrived on a Sunday evening around 7:30pm, and stayed almost until they closed at 9pm. That proved a good time to go since there were only about a dozen other visitors in the museum in that duration. Tickets are €13.50 for full price, €8.00 for discounted tickets for students, disabled, military in service or veterans, and recipients of certain unemployment benefits + 7% VAT. Kids under 6 are free. Tickets are available online or in person; when I was there, there wasn't a line. Inside the museum isn't large, kinda like the size of a large retail store. They really pack it in with tons of information about the life and times of people living during the East German socialist era. From providing background on the political shift post WWII, there's information on how social and economic policies affected everyday transactions--commuting to work, grocery store purchases, print/audio/film media, school courses and extracurriculars, vocations, community events and organizations, military service and leisure activities. They do this with a gamut of interactive displays--there are countless cupboards and drawers that can be opened to display descriptions and memorabilia from that era, or other hands-on elements. Anything from replicated excerpts of magazines and newspapers, recreated canned food labels, audio recordings of propaganda, history on the government officials, to the toys children used to play with, recipes for commonly eaten food, etc... The recreation of a DDR apartment with different rooms--foyer, living room, dining and kitchen, bathroom, bedrooms, plus a couple full sized cars that you can sit in--really helps to rewind the clock for visitors to comprehend how life was like. Would definitely recommend a visit! I left feeling very creatively educated on DDR times. Gift shop and bathrooms are available. Parking is available via nearby structure, also reachable by public transit S/U-bahn, bus or tram.

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    DDR Museum - Setup of kindergarten during GDR/DDR times

    Setup of kindergarten during GDR/DDR times

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    Museum für Naturkunde

    Museum für Naturkunde

    4.5(150 reviews)
    1.6 kmMitte

    We visited this museum on a recent trip to Berlin. This was my son's pick. He loves dinosaurs. This…read morewas one of the best dinosaur exhibits I have ever seen. Not only do they have like the longest dinosaur fossil in the world, but they have these amazing viewfinders that you look through and the dinosaurs come to life. You can see how the dinosaur moved and how it ate. It was really cool and my son was absolutely obsessed with it. They had this very weird room with animals in jars. I've never seen anything like it and I was a little bit grossed out by it but my kid thought it was cool. They also have the biggest collection of taxidermy that I've ever seen. I very much enjoyed the Exhibit on Darwin and natural selection. It was really fun to learn about zebra stripes. The space part of the museum was cool. And throughout the museum there were numerous panels in English but unfortunately, the video in the space portion was only in German so we didn't totally understand what we were watching. It was fun watching nonetheless. I don't expect everything to be in English. Overall, a great family friendly pick. We spent about 2-2.5 hours here and they do offer family ticket prices which were very reasonable.

    OK, so three stars is going to seem a bit mean, given the dinosaur section is excellent and worth…read moreseeing by itself. But the rest needs a lot of investment to bring it into the 21st Century (by which I just mean better displays rather than tons of interactive stuff - though more educational interactive exhibits would be good). Anyway, the positives: the main dinosaur hall is the star attraction. It's dominated by the world's tallest mounted dinosaur skeleton (of a brachiosaur), surrounded by a smaller sauropod, a stegosaurus and an allosaur, along with a couple of smaller dinosaurs. There at also lots of smaller fossils, illustrating the rich biodiversity of life found by the Tendaguru Hill excavation in what is now Tanzania. Between 1909 and 1913, scientists of the Museum, led by palaeontologist Werner E. M. Janensch (1878-1969), found approximately 230 tonnes of bones - the most successful single dinosaur excavation of all time. However, many will come to see the small fossil in its own room at the rear of the hall - the best preserved Archaeopteryx anywhere. Throughout this section, the presentation is good, and in English as well as German. Around the corner - with a room to itself - is "Tristan", the Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the best preserved tyrannosaur fossils - and impressively massive. After such a stunning start, the remainder of the Museum is a little disappointing. The huge mineral collection is presented in traditional Victorian-style glass cases, with virtually no interpretation, even in German. This is a huge pity as the collection itself is wonderful, but it's no good if you don't know what you're looking at. The evolution section (lots of stuffed animals) is a little better, but again rather old fashioned. The birds section is smaller but more modern and altogether nicer. The weirdest room is that with thousands of specimen jars - you simply walk around it, staring at the lifeless (and unlabelled) bodies of small animals floating in formaldehyde. It's all a bit macabre without being informative. Here and there you can see some of the scientific work going on, which is nice, and they do make an effort with talks and lectures. But there's no escaping the need for investment. The museum is easy to get to, with its own underground station and tram stop 250m away. There's a decent souvenir shop and rather small concession café - very busy when we went (and they'd run our of sandwiches by 2pm).

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    Museum für Naturkunde
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    Stiftung Topographie des Terrors - Remnants of the Berlin wall outside with further displays

    Stiftung Topographie des Terrors

    4.5(134 reviews)
    1.9 kmKreuzberg

    Free admission. Located in the old SS headquarters. Sections of the original Berlin Wall is here…read moreand you learn the history of the building and the horrific things that occurred during this time frame. This is a sad but educational museum. The hanging displays outside will take a good 2 hours to read and digest. Make sure to find the start and work your way forward, I started at the wrong end. Then after you finish outside go inside the museum to learn more. If you don't like to read, audio tours are available. I learned a lot about Siemens and VW involvement during this era. Shocking! Bathrooms: downstairs and very clean Facility: very clean We came in the winter, it was very cold so dress appropriately.

    This is one of several museums in Berlin focusing on the history leading up to, during and post the…read moreHolocaust, World War II, the Nazi atrocities committed against Jews, minorities, LGBTQ and disabled peoples. The museum is located on land that used to be a former gestapo headquarters, along a long section of the Berlin Wall still standing in the city center, now outfitted with exhibits related to the museum as well. The interior of the museum consists of a chronological installation of the rise of Nazism, the both a subversive and swift movement that resulted in mass persecution, incarceration and annihilation of millions of people. They took a lot of care to include photos, images of documents, charts and diagrams of different elements of the Nazi movement, the main perpetrators of atrocities, while also highlighting the lives of those affected, suffering, and killed. The atmosphere inside was somber, though in a way hopeful--if you visit a location like this, (hopefully) you came to respect and learn, be saddened and moved by the past, and be compelled to stand for never again allowing this to happen.* It's terrific that this museum is open 10-8pm daily, and is free of charge. It shows commitment to being accessible and sharing this important story. Audio guides available in different languages. Almost all the displays were in both German and English. Bathrooms available downstairs, there is a library and education center downstairs as well. *I hope this also moves people to take a look at what's going on in the world thru different lenses and perspectives, as there are currently many injustices and oppressive practices less publicized by or more quickly cycled out of the American media. I hope this also prompts individuals to ask whether their own beliefs and actions could result in causing prejudice, hatred or mistreatment toward others not like themselves, and be more accepting of others.

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    Berliner Unterwelten - Tunnel replica

    Berliner Unterwelten

    4.6(161 reviews)
    3.1 kmWedding

    Such an incredible experience! Everyone visiting Berlin should experience an underground tour with…read morethis group. Martina was our tour guide for Tour M and she was engaging, knowledgeable, friendly and fun! She made the tour interesting and was happy to answer any and all questions. They offer a bunch of different tours which cover different topics/aspects "Underground Berlin". We chose Tour M because it focused on the history of the Berlin Wall which we were interested in knowing more about, but there are other tours available that focus on other aspects, such as bunkers, WWII, etc. Be sure to read through what's available before you schedule your tour to ensure that you're signed up for the topic that interests you most. My husband and I had very little knowledge of the Berlin Wall and the history behind it prior to this tour. We left feeling incredibly informed yet hunger for more knowledge! Martina recommended a few movies and documentaries to watch for more information about the wall and we fully intend to watch them when we get back home. Thanks for an interesting and enjoyable experience! Next time we're in Berlin, we'll come back to experience a different tour with you.

    A country with so much history and interesting past the Berliner Wunterwelten is a must see. You…read morewalk below the streets and underground with many steps to a place that seems like it was back in time. I was wearing shorts and a small long sleeve which really didn't make me feel comfortable because this place is seriously seriously cold. I asked the guide if it gets any hotter in the summer time and he says it stays this cool. So be warned bring a jacket when you come here because the whole tour is literally under the streets of Berlin! The guide we got was not from Germany but from another country and spoke English quite well. The place is filled with many cool things to see and also the glow in the dark room is pretty awesome. I didn't even know they invented that kind of thng so long ago! Very factual tour and with many photos and items that are from that time period. Yes we aren't allowed to take pictures soo they can keep all these items for the next generation! I'm glad I actually went to this place and got to listen to this tour. It is a little bit long but if you have time check this place out, I really loved it and you probably will if you want to see what would happen if the bunkers.

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    Berliner Unterwelten - Peaking into the only surviving tunnel found

    Peaking into the only surviving tunnel found

    Berliner Unterwelten - Tunnel that went from East Berlin to West Berlin

    Tunnel that went from East Berlin to West Berlin

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