Memorial

Bernauer Straße was the border between the districts of Wedding (West) and Mitte (East).

A spectacular scavenger hunt awaits school classes at the Berlin Wall and is a great challenge as a puzzle tour 'Escape & Espionage'.

The central Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße shows the permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall".

The Tränenpalast ("Palace of Tears") near Bahnhof Friedrichstraße is home to the permament exhibition "GranzErfahrungen", giving an insight into the day-to-day life of a country divided in two.

Charlottenburg has many faces, but this one is the spiciest: Bier's Kudamm 195 has been serving currywurst with homemade sauce directly on Kurfürstendamm since 1965, where strollers pass by during the day and night owls stop in at night, preferably with a glass of champagne in hand.

The Allied Forces Museum on Zehlendorf's Clay-Allee illustrates the history of the western allies in Berlin. From the end of World War II, over the Berlin Air Lift to Checkpoint Charlie - all this and more are to be discovered there.

Follow the path of the Berlin Wall and discover a major part of Berlin’s history by foot or by bike.

Visit the outside of the building where David Bowie used to live in Berlin and remember that: "We can be heroes, for ever and ever".

Keeping memories will make us not forget the past. Don't miss the memorial for the Sinti and Roma communities killed in concentration camps.

The Holocaust memorial close to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is visited by tens of people daily. But only few of the Berliners and tourists know that there is a free exhibition under the Holocaust Memorial.

The large Panorama wall of the artist Yadegar Asisi visualizes the daily life next to the Berlin wall on a fictitious autumn day in the 1980s.

The city tour City Circle PURPLE Tour in a yellow doubledecker bus traces the former Berlin Wall and takes you to the trendy Berlin of today.

The monument "Parliament of Trees" was created by artist Ben Wargin in 1990 and commemorates the people who died on the Berlin Wall.

This memorial site commemorates the victims of gunfire and barbed wire at the Berlin Wall and is named after Günter Litfin, the first victim of precision shooting at the Wall.

His tragic death converted Peter Fechter into a symbol. He was shot in 1962 when trying to climb across the Wall.

The Mauerpark (Wall Park) was created in the former border strip as a public green space which contains about 300 metres of original Berlin Wall!

The white crosses are commemorating those who lost their lives trying to overcome the GDR border fortifications to escape from East Germany.

Brandenburg Gate Museum shows - virtually in fast motion - more than 300 years of the history in Berlin in a 20-minute multimedia presentation, very close to the Brandenburg Gate directly at Pariser Platz.

The Protestant Gethsemane Church in Prenzlauer Berg is a symbol of the peaceful revolution in the GDR.

„Ich bin ein Berliner“ – John F. Kennedy said this famous sentence in front of the Schöneberg City Hall when he visited Berlin in 1963. However, a lot more German history was made here.

The permanent exhibition of the museum of Kulturbrauerei in Prenzlauer Berg is dedicated to the day-to-day life in the GDR.

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, Stadtmuseum Berlin deals with the insular city that West-Berlin was dedicating it the exhibition "WEST:BERLIN - an island in search of the mainland".