

Touching is expressly desired in the colorful experimental world at the Science Center Spectrum in Berlin-Kreuzberg. On four floors, experiments are waiting for curious children and knowledgeable young explorers.
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Berlin is one of the world's great museum cities, with more than a hundred to explore, from ancient art to modern history. A museum here might sit on the famous Museumsinsel or tell the story of the Wall, spies, film or natural history.
This overview gathers Berlin locations for a museum visit, from the great collections of the Museumsinsel to small, specialist houses. Some focus on art and antiquities, others on history, technology, photography and design.
Browse the places below to find the best museum in Berlin, compare exhibitions and opening hours, and plan your visit.


Touching is expressly desired in the colorful experimental world at the Science Center Spectrum in Berlin-Kreuzberg. On four floors, experiments are waiting for curious children and knowledgeable young explorers.



The equivalent of Mona Lisa at the Louvre of Paris for the Neues Museum in Berlin is the bust of Nefertiti!

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.



On Gleisdreieck, close to Potsdamer Platz the exhibits of Deutsches Technnikmuseum (German Technics Museum) bridge the gap between rail traffic of old to the computers we've all grown accustomed today.



The Alice Children's Museum is a bit like the girl Alice from the story “Alice in Wonderland”, designed for bright and curious children and teenagers aged 8 and over in FEZ Berlin.


Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz unites various impressive museums.






In Berlin-Pankow the MACHmit! Museum for Children presents its new exhibition »the wide horizon«!




In Wilmersdorf, in the Bavarian Quarter, star make-up artist René Koch runs the world's only museum dedicated to lipstick. The private collection in his salon apartment ranges from the Baroque period to the present day, transforming a cosmetic classic into a piece of cultural history.

Right in front of the door of the museum is the former Checkpoint Charlie. Inside it is all about the creative ways of people wanting to flee from East Germany and the border fortifications of that time.



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.



We are the future before to be in it: go and take the chance to discover what it could be.





Touch, try, jump, climb or knead - learning by doing is what Wedding's Labyrinth Children's Museum is all about.




The first Gutenberg Bible was printed on hemp paper, van Gogh painted of course with hemp oil colours and even plastic sandals can now be made from refined hemp oil.

Located in Neukölln, at Karl-Marx-Straße 135, the Berlin Puppet Theatre Museum houses one of the most fascinating collections on the history of puppet theatre in the city. Hand puppets, marionettes, rod puppets, and shadow theatre figures from Europe, Asia, and Africa make this small museum one of Berlin's most curious cultural venues.

The Museum Island is the biggest univeral museum in the world!





In the historic mill warehouse directly on the Spree, an emotional journey through the history of German division awaits you. The museum connects personal fates with original props and interviews from contemporary witnesses in 13 themed rooms.



What saved and will save street art? Photography. Take this chance to see this contemporary urban and street art gallery.



The Ramones Museum in Neukölln is the world's first and only museum dedicated to the New York punk band, housed in the Bar 19:77 on Weserstraße. Anyone who takes punk seriously cannot miss this collection of over 1,000 original exhibits. The museum is currently moving again, with a new location imminent.

In the Nikolaiviertel in Mitte, on the ground floor of an East German panel building, the Designpanoptikum displays over 3,000 industrial objects that oscillate between horror cabinet and surreal artwork. Here, a Moscow photographer collects prostheses, iron lungs, and cat submarines, without a single explanatory sign.

The architecture alone of the Neue Nationalgalerie is highly impressive.



In the Filmhaus on Potsdamer Platz the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for Film and Television presents important collections from the history of film and television.






In the museum village Düppel families can undertake a trip back into the Middle Ages!.





Hidden in the vaulted cellar of the historic Hamburger Hof in Scheunenviertel, Mitte, is Berlin's most peculiar magic museum. Covering over 600 square meters, the MAGICUM Berlin Magic Museum showcases around 450 exhibits from all over the world, from African ritual masks to Dutch witch scales. A museum that takes cultural history and mysticism seriously with humor.



Mauerpark is situated where once was the strip that separated East and West Berlin, is now a vibrant location in the city not to miss.