Pupils

In the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz an indoor world of Lego bricks spreads over several levels, from Ninjago City and the dino explorer to the Miniland where Berlin stands in miniature. A birthday party brings a birthday room of its own for two hours, a private building workshop with a model to take home and pizza for every guest.

The Industriepalast Hostel is located in a red brick building from 1906 on Warschauer Straße and, with around 400 beds, is the largest among these hostels in Berlin. Two minutes' walk to the East Side Gallery. Useful for school trips are the seminar room with a projector as a classroom and a basement hall with table tennis and foosball.

Spread across approximately 4,000 square meters on Miraustraße in Reinickendorf, there are 13 attractions, from a large jumping field and foam pit to the Sky Ninja course at a height of eleven meters. Children aged 6 and up can jump alone, while the youngest ones have their own time slot on weekends. An indoor activity for children in Berlin, after which everyone will be tired.

When the Computerspielemuseum (Computer Games Museum) opened its doors at Berlin in 1997, it was the first of its kind worldwide. In the meantime the museum houses one of the most important collections of its kind.

The indoor playground in Tempelhofer Hafen offers a climbing frame, wave slide, go-kart track, and ball cannons across approximately 1,000 square meters, plus a protected area for children from about one year old. In the same building, there is laser tag for ages 10 and up, and 18 holes of black light mini-golf. This means a single indoor venue in Berlin covers three age groups.

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 Forest Museum with Forest School is located on Königsweg in Grunewald on the site of a former tree nursery. Inside, specimens, display boards, and interactive exhibits about the forest await, while outside there's a forest garden with play and discovery stations. At 1.00 Euro for children and 1.50 Euro for adults, it is the most affordable among Berlin's children's museums.

Beneath Gesundbrunnen station lies an air-raid shelter with almost fifty rooms on three floors, rediscovered by Berliner Unterwelten e.V. only in 1998. Today, the association manages fourteen such sites and guides groups through them in ninety minutes. For a class trip to Berlin, this means: contemporary history without display cases, but with sturdy footwear.

The Youth Museum on Schöneberger Hauptstraße is a municipal institution of the district office and has been working with real objects and true life stories since 1995. Currently, Protest is running, an exhibition about historical and contemporary forms of opposition. Admission is free, and in the Open Studio, children aged six and over can create their own works.

While the Zeughaus Unter den Linden is being renovated, the Pei Building hosts the temporary exhibitions of the German Historical Museum. Admission is free for visitors up to 18 years old, the family ticket costs 18 Euros, and a free explorer booklet guides children through the rooms with tasks. Among indoor activities for children in Berlin, this is the most affordable with original exhibits.

The Puppet Theatre Museum Berlin on Karl-Marx-Straße displays figures from three centuries, with the foundation stemming from the collection of its founder Nikolaus Hein. The museum includes its own small stage, a library dedicated to puppet theatre, and workshops where puppets are built. Playful guided tours are available for children's groups of eight or more.

The Zeiss Planetarium at Schöneberg is located on the foot of the "Insulaner", one of Berlin's rubble hills.

The Wall Museum East Side Gallery is located directly in the Mühlenspeicher (mill warehouse) on the Spree and offers a deep insight into the history of German division. With over 100 screens and exciting interviews, this exhibition tells the events from 1961 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in a modern way.

In the building on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße, rooms tilt, mirrors multiply half the class, and a photo mosaic from a distance reveals Albert Einstein. Between the illusions, the focus is on plastic waste, overfishing, and climate change. For a class trip to Berlin, Illuseum Berlin is the stop where photos are taken first, and then discussions follow.

Around 2,700 concrete stelae stand on 19,000 square meters; beneath them, on 800 square meters, lies the Place of Information with the Rooms of Dimensions, Families, Names, and Places. Admission and access to the field of stelae are free. For a class trip to Berlin, this is the place where a number transforms into individual biographies.

Between Hackescher Markt and Oranienburger Strasse, Art Nouveau courtyards from 1905, the New Synagogue from 1866, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and the Otto Weidt Workshop for the Blind Museum are located within a few hundred meters, with 'Stolpersteine' (stumbling blocks) everywhere. A school trip in Berlin can fill a morning here without a single ticket.

In the New Wing of Schloss Charlottenburg the birthday guests turn into a royal court: the children put historical costumes on over their clothes, go on a tour about Frederick the Great and dance a minuet to music of the eighteenth century at the end. The programme runs two and a half hours for up to eight children and two adult companions.

Europe's largest indoor climbing park is located in five halls of a former cinema in Hellersdorf: fourteen courses between three and twenty meters high, a 40-meter zip line, and a 12-meter free fall. Children can climb from 1.10 meters tall, the youngest from 3 years old. As an indoor activity for children in Berlin, this is the most athletic option.

Foundation stone 1884, proclamation of the Republic 1918, fire 1933, rebuilt by Norman Foster until 1999: hardly any building tells German history as densely as the Reichstag Building. In the dome, 360 mirrors direct daylight into the plenary hall. For school classes in Berlin, lectures, dome visits and the simulation game are free but need registration.

You need strong nerves to visit the Berlin Dungeon! In this historic chamber of horrors, visitors experience a journey through 800 years of eerie Berlin stories. New show for 18+

Since 1896, Treptower Park has been home to Germany's largest and oldest public observatory, featuring the 21-meter-long Great Refractor, the world's longest movable refracting telescope. In the Museum of Celestial Studies, a 283-kilogram iron meteorite can be touched, with free admission. Children's programs are available from 5 years old, offering amazing technology even without a clear sky.

The Berlin Olympic Stadium in Charlottenburg got honored the "5-star-stadium" by the UEFA.

On Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee in Charlottenburg, instead of sand, natural organic salt covers the floor, and the air is enriched with 14% brine. Children dig and build as if at the beach; a session lasts approximately 45 minutes and requires a pre-booked appointment. Among indoor activities for children in Berlin, this is the quietest, suitable even for babies.

On Bleibtreustrasse in Charlottenburg every child picks out a ceramic blank of their own, paints it at a decorated birthday table and collects it again once it has been fired. The party package holds the blank itself, a short painting briefing, invitation cards in two designs, a drink per child and a present for the birthday child.

From 1933 to 1945 the Gestapo, the SS leadership and the Reich Security Main Office sat on this site at Niederkirchnerstrasse. Today there are excavated cellars, a site tour with fifteen stations and around 200 metres of the Berlin Wall. Admission and guided tours are free for school classes. For a school trip to Berlin, this is the view from the perpetrators’ side.