Day Trip

Where Beethoven meets Berlin nights: The Philharmonie at the Kulturforum in Tiergarten is home to one of the world's most renowned orchestras. Spending an evening here with parents or grandparents means experiencing classical music in a hall that is itself an architectural marvel.

The MACHmit! Museum for Children is located in the deconsecrated Elias Church in Prenzlauer Berg, including the church tower clock and organ. A seven-meter-high climbing shelf stretches through the old church nave, alongside a historic printing press and a soap shop. When it gets dark early outside, something new is constantly being created by children's hands at the house's workbenches.

Gleisdreieck Park in Kreuzberg is more than just a playground. Multiple play areas, a nature exploration space, and the legendary 'Stangenwald' (pole forest) make this expansive green area one of the most versatile play spaces in the city.

Berlin's first international comedy stage is located in the heart of Neukölln and has consistently done since 2015 what the city is known for: pushing boundaries. In the soundproofed 70-seat theater on Roseggerstraße, improv theater meets stand-up, English meets German, and craft beer meets genuine laughter.

Picnic Berlin is the city's only true picnic basket rental service: For seven euros per person, you get a picnic basket, blanket, crockery, cutlery, glasses, and the subsequent cleaning. You assemble your food from the partner café's menu and pay for it there. Currently, pick-up is at Café Engels on Herrfurthstraße in Neukölln.

Between the two Brandenburg nature reserves Rabenstein and Planetal lies the Nature Park Centre Hoher Fläming in the Old Distillery in Raben.

Red strawberries, tractor ride, and over 60 attractions: Karls Adventure Village in Elstal near Wustermark, directly in Havelland, is probably the most famous family excursion destination in the Berlin 'Speckgürtel' (commuter belt). From the free petting zoo to the large indoor play area, the adventure farm turns a simple day trip to Brandenburg into a whole adventure camp.

At the Zehlendorf Open-Air Museum, Berlin dives 800 years into the past this Easter. From Good Friday to Easter Monday, Museumsdorf Düppel transforms into a lively medieval farming village, welcoming families with interactive programs, crafts, and a spring atmosphere.

Freizeitpark Lübars is a recreation park in the Northern district Berlin-Reinickendorf and a famous destination for a nature trip in the city of Berlin.

The n.b.k. Artothek is the largest of its kind in Germany: over 4,000 works, more than 11,000 loans per year, and for 9 Euros, real art hangs on your own wall for three months. Visiting the house on Chausseestraße costs nothing anyway; loans are processed via prior registration using the form on their website.

The Rixdorfer Höhe in Hasenheide is a rubble mountain made from approximately 700,000 cubic meters of debris, piled up in 1951, 68 meters high and 22 meters above the surrounding terrain. The path leads spirally upwards, the descent requires attention, and at the foot of the mountain lies one of Berlin's largest animal enclosures.

In Marzahn, where prefabricated buildings meet expansive green spaces, lies Berlin's green world tour: The Gardens of the World combine over 20 international theme gardens across 43 hectares, a hovering cable car over the Kienberg, and open-air concerts for up to 5,000 visitors.

In Lübbenau, a 45.5-meter-long curved plexiglass pane separates the guests' outdoor pool from an enclosure with Humboldt penguins. There are also fourteen saunas, the largest selection on this list, spread across an indoor area and a sauna village styled like a Spreewald farmstead, with a cucumber sauna, a hay sauna and a cave where Spreewald legends are read aloud.

Between Fläming and Spreewald, in Baruth/Mark, lies an entire village under monument protection. The Baruther Glashütte Museum Village, as Germany's best-preserved glassmaking site, is one of Brandenburg's most fascinating excursion destinations for families who truly want to touch history.

Sixty kilometers around Lake Scharmützelsee, Lake Storkower See and Lake Glubigsee, starting from Bad Saarow and mostly on asphalt. Theodor Fontane called the Scharmützelsee the 'Märkische Meer' (Marchian Sea), and the circuit shows why: a spa park with a lake balcony, the Lesser Promenade on the shore, the harbor of Wendisch Rietz, and plenty of bathing spots along the way.

The Zoologischer Garten on Hardenbergplatz takes birthday groups on a ninety minute guided round in a version made for five and six year olds, to lions, elephants and penguins, with animal facts, riddles and games. The guided round costs a flat 75 euros for up to twelve people, and the birthday child itself gets in free of charge.

On the trotting track in Karlshorst, opened in 1894 and with a twelve hundred metre course, children celebrate for three and a half hours between stable and race track: cake and cocoa first, then stroking and feeding the horses, one led ride each and games in the straw, and at the end a buffet laid out just for the children.

The Berlin Botanical Garden stretches over 43 hectares between Dahlem and Lichterfelde and houses around 20,000 plant species. The complex includes fifteen display greenhouses, among them the Great Tropical House with giant bamboo and palms. To combat a boring Sunday, the order helps: first the outdoor area, then the tropics, and both in any weather.

A white moated castle in the Spreewald, quietly combining history and hospitality: The Schlosshotel Fürstlich Drehna near Luckau welcomes its guests with a princely ambiance, 52 hectares of landscape park, and a wellness area that defies monument protection.

Schloss Neuhardenberg in the Oder-Spree Lakeland is arguably Brandenburg's most stylish place for a break: Prussian classicism by Schinkel, one of Germany's most beautiful landscape parks, and a wellness area with sauna, steam bath, and massages, just about 65 kilometers east of Berlin.

The bike tour through Tempelhof - Schöneberg collects Berlin history in a short distance: the town hall with the Freedom Bell and Kennedy's balcony, the disused gasometer from 1910, the heavy load-bearing body made of 12,000 tons of concrete, and at the end, the Tempelhofer Feld with over 300 hectares. It's also flat and completely urban.

Spanning 90 hectares in southern Neukölln, Britzer Garten offers everything you'd leave Berlin for on a beautiful day, without actually leaving the city: blooming theme gardens, an artificially created lake, expansive sunbathing lawns, and a lively event program that carries through the entire summer.

On Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026, the Klaistow Asparagus and Adventure Farm near Beelitz transforms into a meeting point for the whole family. Easter egg hunts, live music, and a spring atmosphere in the countryside await Berliners and Brandenburgers who want to spend the holiday between the petting zoo and the farm bakery.

In Berlin-Steglitz, this Italian private restaurant, seemingly frozen in time, resides in a Wilhelminian-era villa – and for Easter 2026, the Sinnig family transforms its vaulted cellar into a place where spring joy and Southern Italian culinary delight meet.

The Labyrinth Children's Museum Berlin is housed in a listed factory hall from 1890 on Osloer Straße and presents the interactive exhibition Talentopia across approximately 1,000 square meters. On December 19, 2026, the lights go out: during the Christmas special, children aged eight to eleven explore the exhibition with headlamps, entirely without parents.