School Classes

The puzzle tour starts in Weinbergspark at Rosenthaler Platz and ends after eleven stations at the Berlin Wall Memorial. It tells the story of the escape attempt of the GDR art dealer Siegfried Kath, and was developed with a historian and a history teacher. As a school trip activity in Berlin, it takes two hours and one smartphone per team.

BergWerk.Berlin occupies the halls of a former multiplex cinema inside the Helle Mitte shopping centre and calls itself the largest indoor climbing park in Europe. Fourteen courses run from the mini section up to 25 metres below the roof, and a 40-metre speed zip line crosses the shopping arcade. For climbing in Berlin in any weather, this is the biggest address.

Four hours, divided into a street art tour, preparing the wall, and two hours with the spray can: At mygraffitiworkshop, school classes first design their motif on paper and then spray their school name or class motto onto a real wall. Guidance is provided by Berlin writers. For a school trip to Berlin, this is the activity with the greatest creative component.

The programming school on Prenzlauer Allee teaches children and teenagers aged 5 to 18 in groups of a maximum of ten participants, from Scratch Jr to Python and robotics. Laptops and materials are provided by the school, and a trial lesson is free. As an indoor activity for children in Berlin, this is the option where something of their own is created at the end.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Potsdam's hands-on museum, known as Extavium until April 2024, features over 80 interactive exhibits from physics, chemistry, biology, and computer science. Children can dock at the ISS, watch chocolate kisses expand in a vacuum, and build mouse mazes. Experiment courses are available for ages 5 and up. For indoor activities with children, the short trip from Berlin to Potsdam is well worth it.

368 metres high, opened on 3 October 1969, the observation deck at 203 metres reachable by lift in under forty seconds. One floor up, the restaurant turns once every half hour. For a school trip to Berlin, the Berlin TV Tower is the fastest way to show a class the whole city at once, from the Spree to the edge of town.

At the Camel Farm in Nassenheide, in the Löwenberger Land, you can ride a camel across meadows and pastures, accompanied by an experienced camel guide. This small farm operates by appointment only and with very small groups; no riding experience is necessary.

Right by the World Clock at Alexanderplatz, the family business Curry61 fries sausages from a Berlin butcher, cooks fresh curry sauce several times a day, and cuts its own fries. There's a vegan option and truffle mayonnaise. For a school trip to Berlin, this is the perfect lunch break for around five to six euros per person.