Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Berlin, Germany

The Bauhaus Archive is a state archive and Museum of Design located in Berlin. It collects art pieces, items, documents and literature which relate to the Bauhaus School (1919–1933), and puts them on public display. Currently, the museum is closed due to construction works and will reopen in 2022. It has a temporary space at Knesbeckstr. 1–2 in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

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The German Resistance Memorial Center is a memorial and museum in Berlin, capital of Germany.

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The Kulturforum is a collection of cultural buildings in Berlin. It was built up in the 1950s and 1960s at the edge of West Berlin, south of the Tiergarten, after most of the once unified city's cultural assets had been lost behind the Berlin Wall. The Kulturforum is characterized by its innovative modernist architecture; several buildings are distinguished by the organic designs of Hans Scharoun, and the Neue Nationalgalerie was designed by Mies van der Rohe. Today, the Kulturforum lies immediately to the west of the redeveloped commercial node of Potsdamer Platz.

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The Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its sculpture gardens were designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened on September 15th, 1968.

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The Blue Max Theater in Berlin is a cultural building that was converted from the former IMAX cinema especially for the Blue Man Group's show. The theatre hall offers space for 600 spectators.

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The Theater am Kurfürstendamm is a well-known private theater in Berlin and was located on the Kurfürstendamm until 2018 with the Komödie am Kurfürstendamm in the Ku'damm-Karree. Since September 2018, the theatre and comedy has been playing under the name Komödie am Kurfürstendamm at the Schiller Theater. From March 2023, the theatre will use the Theater am Potsdamer Platz as a transitional venue until the completion of construction work on the Ku'damm-Karree.

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The Berlin Musical Instrument Museum is located at the Kulturforum on Tiergartenstraße in Berlin, Germany. The museum holds over 3,500 musical instruments from the 16th century onward and is one of the largest and most representative musical instrument collections in Germany. Objects include a portable harpsichord once owned by Prussia's Queen Sophie Charlotte, flutes from the collection of Frederick the Great, and Benjamin Franklin's glass harmonica.

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The Center Potsdamer Platz, known as Sony Center until March 2023, is a complex of eight buildings located at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, designed by Helmut Jahn. It opened in 2000 and houses Sony's German headquarters. The cinemas in the center were closed at the end of 2019.

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Die Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a major German film archive located in Berlin.

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The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection is a supreme federal authority of the Federal Republic of Germany. His headquarters or first office is in the federal city of Bonn, his second office in Berlin. Since 8 December 2021, the responsible federal minister in Scholz's cabinet has been Steffi Lemke of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.

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The Hardenberg monument to the right in front of the Prussian State Parliament, the seat of the Berlin House of Representatives, commemorates the Prussian statesman and reformer Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822).

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The Deutschlandmuseum is a museum of German history located at Leipziger Platz 7 in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It opened on 17 June 2023. The permanent exhibition is open all year round.

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The Berlin Spy Museum is a private museum in Berlin which was created by former journalist Franz-Michael Günther. The museum opened to the public on 19 September 2015. Günther's aspirations were to create a museum devoted to the history of spies and espionage in the former spy capital of Germany. The museum is located in the central area of Potsdamer Platz, formerly known as the "death strip", as it lies on the perimeters of the wall which once divided East and West Berlin. The museum acts as an educational institution, with its permanent exhibitions bridging together centuries of espionage stories and tactics, immersing visitors in a multi-media experience. The museum particularly focuses on the World Wars and the Cold War through a range of a 1000 different exhibits and artefacts. Since its opening in 2015, 1,000,000 people have visited the museum and recently in 2020 it was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award. The Berlin Spy Museum is partnered with the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and many of the artefacts and installations within the museum have captured media attention around the world.

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The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.

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The statue of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau is a bronze sculpture installed at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin, Germany.

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The statue of Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin is a bronze sculpture by August Kiss at Zietenplatz in Berlin, Germany.

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The Museum of Communication Berlin is one of several locations of the Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, a foundation under public law that is directly established by the federal government. It is located in Berlin's Mitte district in the building of the former Reichspostmuseum on the corner of Leipziger Straße and Mauerstraße. The building has been a listed building since 1977.

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Memoria Urbana Berlin is a public sculpture by Spanish artist Juan Garaizabal that stands in the middle of the Bethlehemkirchplatz, Mitte district, Berlin, Germany. It was constructed in June 2012 on the mosaic marking the exact site and size of the original Bohemian or Bethlehem Church, which was destroyed in the war. The sculpture is made up of 800 meters of square section steel tube and 300 meters of LED illumination system. Its structure draws in the air the lines of the silhouette of the lost construction, recreating its volume in the form of a sketch. It measures 25 x 15 x 31 metres in height and weighs 44 short tons.

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Houseball is an 11-metre-high sculpture by sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen in Berlin's Mitte district. It is located on Bethlehem Church Square in front of the Philip Johnson House in the immediate vicinity of Friedrichstraße, where the former Bohemian Bethlehem Church stood from 1737 to 1963.

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Mossehaus is an office building on 18–25 Schützenstraße in Berlin, renovated and with a corner designed by Erich Mendelsohn between 1921 and 1923.

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The New Church, is located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from French Church of Friedrichstadt. Its parish comprised the northern part of the then new quarter of Friedrichstadt, which until then belonged to the parish of the congregations of Jerusalem's Church. The Lutheran and Calvinist congregants used German as their native language, as opposed to the French-speaking Calvinist congregation of the adjacent French Church of Friedrichstadt. The congregants' native language combined with the domed tower earned the church its colloquial name Deutscher Dom. While the church physically resembles a cathedral, it is not a cathedral in the formal sense of the word, as it was never the seat of a bishop.

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The Gendarmenmarkt is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble that includes the Berlin concert hall, along with the French and German Churches. In the centre of the square stands a monumental statue of poet Friedrich Schiller. The square was created by Johann Arnold Nering at the end of the seventeenth century as the Linden-Markt and reconstructed by Georg Christian Unger in 1773. The Gendarmenmarkt is named after a Prussian cuirassier regiment called the Gendarmen, which had stables at the square until 1773.

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The French Friedrichstadt Church is a church on the Gendarmenmarkt in Friedrichstadt in the Berlin district of Mitte. It was built at the beginning of the 18th century by the Berlin Huguenot community. It is structurally connected to the French Cathedral, a tower built almost a hundred years later. Today, the church serves as a place of worship for the French Church of Berlin and the Communauté protestante francophone de Berlin.

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The French (Reformed) Church of Friedrichstadt is in Berlin at the Gendarmenmarkt, across the Konzerthaus and the German Cathedral. The earliest parts of the church date back to 1701, although it was subsequently expanded. After being heavily damaged during World War II, the church was rebuilt and continues to offer church services and concerts.

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Hausvogteiplatz is located in Berlin's Mitte district at the interface between Friedrichswerder and Friedrichstadt. It is a relatively small diagonally triangular square that was built on former fortifications. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it gained supra-regional importance as the centre of Berlin ready-to-wear. Part of the development is a listed building. On the square is the monument Modezentrum Hausvogteiplatz.

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The Moroccan Embassy in Berlin is the headquarters of the Moroccan diplomatic mission in Germany. The embassy building is located at Niederwallstraße 39 in Berlin's Mitte district of the same name.

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The Museum Island is a museum complex on the northern part of Spree Island in the historic heart of Berlin, Germany. It is one of the capital's most visited sights and one of the most important museum sites in Europe. Originally built from 1830 to 1930, initially by order of the Prussian Kings, according to plans by five architects, the Museum Island was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 because of its testimony to the architectural and cultural development of museums in the 19th and 20th centuries. It consists of the Altes Museum, the Neues Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, the Bode-Museum and the Pergamonmuseum. As the Museum Island designation includes all of Spree Island north of the Karl Liebknecht Boulevard, the historic Berlin Cathedral is also located there, next to the open Lustgarten park. To the south of Liebknecht Boulevard, the reconstructed Berlin Palace houses the Humboldt Forum museum and opened in 2020. Also adjacent, across the west branch of the Spree is the German Historical Museum. Since German reunification, the Museum Island has been rebuilt and extended according to a master plan. In 2019, a new visitor center and art gallery, the James Simon Gallery, was opened within the Museum Island heritage site.

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The Lustgarten is a park in Museum Island in central Berlin at the foreground of the Altes Museum. It is next to the Berliner Dom and near the reconstructed Berliner Stadtschloss of which it was originally a part. At various times in its history, the park has been used as a parade ground, a place for mass rallies and a public park.

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Berlin Cathedral, also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Protestant church and dynastic tomb on the Museum Island in central Berlin. Having its origins as a castle chapel for the Berlin Palace, several structures have served to house the church since the 15th century. The present collegiate church was built from 1894 to 1905 by order of Emperor William II according to plans by Julius Raschdorff in Renaissance and Baroque Revival styles. The listed building is the largest Protestant church in Germany and one of the most important dynastic tombs in Europe. In addition to church services, the cathedral is used for state ceremonies, concerts and other events.

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The Humboldt Forum is a museum dedicated to human history, art and culture, located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It is named in honour of the Prussian scholars Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt. Considered the "German equivalent" of the British Museum, the Humboldt Forum houses the non-European collections of the Berlin State Museums, temporary exhibitions and public events. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it opened digitally on 16 December 2020 and became accessible to the general public on 20 July 2021.

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Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986.

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The Franziskaner-Klosterkirche was a church in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, founded in 1250 and now in ruins.

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The Palais Podewils is a baroque aristocratic palace built at the beginning of the 18th century in Berlin's monastery district, which served as a museum and cultural site. After total destruction at the end of the Second World War and subsequent reconstruction, it was called the House of Young Talents (HdjT) from 1959 to 1991. Since 1992, it has borne the name of its most famous resident and is a listed building.

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The Direktorenhaus Berlin is a gallery as well as an art and cultural center in Berlin's Mitte district. It was founded in 2010 by Pascal Johanssen and Katja Kleiss in Berlin as an exhibition venue for applied arts. The center is located on the grounds and building complex of the Alte Münze, the former state mint in the historic center of Berlin. After 20 years of vacancy, the dilapidated building was renovated by the operators of the director's house and thus saved from decay. The Direktorenhaus is also the headquarters of Musicboard Berlin, and well-known artists and musicians such as the Berlin rock band Bonaparte use the rooms of the house as studios and rehearsal rooms.

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The Mühlendammschleuse in Berlin is located in the district of Mitte east of the Mühlendamm on the Fischerinsel. It lies in the course of the Spree, which is part of the Spree-Oder waterway here. The lock was put into operation in 1942 and overcomes a drop height of 1.51 meters. It is the responsibility of the Spree-Havel Waterways and Shipping Authority. In 2006, the lock handled a volume of 3500 cargo ships, 15,933 passenger ships and 6,560 pleasure boats. Muscle-powered boats are not locked, as the traffic of small ships without engine propulsion is not permitted between the Chancellery jetty and the Oberbaum Bridge. The Mühlendamm lock is a listed building.

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The Ephraim Palace is a Rococo-style building in Berlin, Germany, originally constructed in 1766. Despite the destruction of the palace in 1936 by Nazi Germany, the beginning of a reconstruction was possible in 1985, as many elements of the facade had been stored in East Germany. Today, the Ephraim Palace is a cultural-heritage property and houses a museum, mostly dealing with cultural topics.

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The Hemp Museum was opened in Berlin on 6 December 1994. It is the only museum in Germany focused on the cannabis plant. The museum also actively promotes the protection of children and young people and offers individually tailored tours of the exhibition with care staff. It serves as a meeting place for the organisers of the Hanfparade. The Hanf Museum regularly takes part in the "Long Night of Museums", the Berlin Fairytale Days and the Historale which takes place in the Nikolai Quarter. In 2017, the Hanf Museum took part in the Kirchentag in Berlin as a self-organised event on the topic of the war on drugs with speakers from South American victims, including the Reverend Martin Diaz from El Salvador.

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The St. Nikolai-Kirche, is the oldest church in Berlin, the capital of Germany. The church is located in the eastern part of central Berlin, the borough of Mitte. The area around the church, bounded by Spandauer Straße, Rathausstraße, the River Spree and Mühlendamm, is known as the Nikolaiviertel 'Nicholas quarter', and is an area of restored medieval buildings. The church was built between 1220 and 1230, and is thus, along with the Church of Our Lady at Alexanderplatz not far away, the oldest church in Berlin.

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The Nikolaiviertel is an old quarter of the German capital of Berlin, founded c. 1200. Together with nearby Cölln, they jointly make up Alt-Berlin, the reconstructed historical heart of the city. Located in the Mitte locality, it is five minutes away from Alexanderplatz.

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The Neuer Marstall is a listed historic building in Berlin, Germany located on the Schloßplatz and the Spree River. Completed in 1901 and facing the former Royal Palace, the neo-Baroque "New Stables" once sheltered the Royal equerry, horses and carriages of Imperial Germany. The complex also included three enclosed courtyards, a riding school, and the Knights College.

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The Galgenhaus, also known as Palais Happe, Brüderstraße 10 in Berlin's Mitte district, is – like the Nicolaihaus two houses away – one of the few surviving old Berlin town houses whose origins date back to the 17th century and which are listed as historical monuments. The residential and office building was completed in 1688. The builder and first inhabitant of the house was probably the chamber councillor Wilhelm Heinrich von Happe. Heinrich Philipp von Happe is also named as the builder.

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The Jungfern Bridge is a bridge in Berlin. It is the oldest bridge in Berlin. There have been nine predecessors on its site in Berlin-Mitte, spanning the Spree arm Kupfergraben and linking Friedrichsgracht to Oberwasserstraße.

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The Gertraudenbrücke and the Neue Gertraudenbrücke in Berlin lead Gertraudenstraße over the Spreekanal to Spittelmarkt in the Mitte district and connect the historic districts of Alt-Kölln and Neukölln am Wasser. The stone Gertrauden Bridge, built between 1894 and 1895, is a listed building and was extended with the New Gertrauden Bridge, which was built in 1977 as a steel girder bridge and runs parallel to the south, so that today there is an ensemble of two bridges. The Neue Gertraudenbrücke is part of Bundesstraße 1 and is part of the heavily frequented traffic arterial route in the area of historic Mitte Berlin, which leads from Potsdamer/Leipziger Platz via Leipziger Straße, Spittelmarkt and Molkenmarkt to Alexanderplatz.

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The Grünstraßenbrücke in Berlin's Mitte district is one of the early Spree crossings in the old Kölln city centre. Instead of a wooden yoke bridge with flaps for the ship passages, the stone Grünstraße bridge was built from 1903 to 1905. After partial destruction at the end of the Second World War and subsequent repairs, it has been on Berlin's list of architectural monuments since the 1970s.

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The Island Bridge is a road bridge over the western arm of the Spree that has existed since the 17th century. It is the first bridge on the Spree Island in the direction of the river and is located in the catchment area of the historic Berlin harbor. Today's stone arched bridge dates from 1912–1913, built according to plans by Ludwig Hoffmann and city planning officer Krause and is a listed building.

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Köllnischer Park is a public park located near the River Spree in Mitte, Berlin. It is named after Cölln, one of the two cities which came together to form Berlin; the park location was originally just outside it. Approximately 1 hectare in area, the park came into existence in the 18th and 19th centuries on the site of fortifications. It was redesigned as a public park in 1869–1873 and was further modified in the 20th century with the addition of first a bear enclosure, the Bärenzwinger, and later a permanent exhibition of sculpture, the Lapidary. The park is a registered Berlin landmark.

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