


Autumn and the 2018 Christmas season will be exciting and interesting at MACHmit! Museum for Children in Berlin Prenzlauer-Berg!
9 Locations
A library offers a quiet, welcoming retreat in Berlin, from grand historic reading rooms to modern neighbourhood branches. The Staatsbibliothek and the city's district libraries give readers, students and visitors free access to books, workspaces and events.
This overview gathers Berlin locations that work as a library, from major research collections to local lending libraries. Some focus on study space and archives, others on children's sections, workshops and community programmes.
Browse the places below to find the best library in Berlin, compare collections and opening hours, and plan your visit.



Autumn and the 2018 Christmas season will be exciting and interesting at MACHmit! Museum for Children in Berlin Prenzlauer-Berg!

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.

Admission to the Helmut Newton Foundation at the Museum of Photography is free for all visitors under 18 years of age!


“Anders als die Andern”, the first sympathetic portrayals of homosexuals in cinema.




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.



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.


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.



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.



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.