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4.5
Autumn and the 2018 Christmas season will be exciting and interesting at MACHmit! Museum for Children in Berlin Prenzlauer-Berg!
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Library
11 Locations
A library is one of the city's great free resources, and Berlin has them in abundance, from grand state collections to cosy neighbourhood branches. A good library offers far more than books these days, with study spaces, events, media and quiet corners to work or read. This tag collects Berlin locations for readers and researchers.
The major state libraries around Mitte and Potsdamer Platz hold vast collections and striking reading rooms, while district libraries across Kreuzberg, Neukoelln and beyond serve their communities with free membership. Many offer wifi, printing and long opening hours, and some run readings, workshops and language cafes. Students and remote workers value them as calm places to focus.
Browse the venues below to find a library across Berlin, from landmark reading rooms to local branches.
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4.3
Give more room to the play instinct: The 'Spielwiese' provides the perfect game ideas! In the bright, spacious shop with an attached café in Friedrichshain, there's a huge selection of games.
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Admission to the Helmut Newton Foundation at the Museum of Photography is free for all visitors under 18 years of age!
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4.1
In Wedding, directly at Leopoldplatz, the Schiller Library with its youth media floor offers much more than just bookshelves: Across three levels and 1,800 m², children and young people encounter Berlin's most diverse media offerings, from consoles to mangas and a reading lounge.
Müllerstraße 149, 13353 Berlin Wedding+49 30 901845683www.berlin.de/stadtbibliothek-mitte/bibliotheken/schiller-bibliothek-mit-hugojugendmedienetage
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“Anders als die Andern”, the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuals in cinema.
Schwules Museum Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin Schöneberg+49 (0) 30 69 59 90 50www.schwulesmuseum.de/ausstellung/anders-als-die-anderen-100-jahre-schwule-filmgeschichte
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4.0
Shopping under stars, in space or under water - all possible at Das Schloss where the ceiling is used as a projection surface to provide for an unusual shopping ambiance.
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4.0
Feasting and reading are paramount at Café Bilderbuch in Berlin-Schöneberg.
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4.0
The Zentral – and Landesbibliothek Belrin (Central and State Library Berlin) is the largest public library in Germany. More than 3.4 million electronic and printed media are available to readers at two locations.
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4.0
Every summer, the Open Air Cinema Spandau transforms the sheltered inner courtyard of the City Library in Spandau's Old Town into one of Berlin's most atmospheric open-air screens. Arthouse meets mainstream cinema here, and if you're chilly, you even get a hot water bottle.
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3.5
The Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum in Berlin-Mitte is a modern library building with impressive architecture and a large reading room. Here, the cold season can be enjoyed cozily and culturally, while reading or working in peace in the warmth.
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße, 10117 Berlin Mitte+49 30 209399370www.ub.hu-berlin.de/de/standorte/jacob-und-wilhelm-grimm-zentrum
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3.2
In the Kinder- und Jugendbibliothek Berlin (KiJuBi) (Children and Youth Library) on Kreuzberg's Blücherplatz there is anything you want to spend a nice afternoon reading: picture books, books for first readers and storybooks, novels for ages 6 - 21, fiction and non-fiction and lots of comic books.
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