Monday Museums
Most museums are closed on Mondays. The following are open:
- Ägyptisches Museum
- Alliierten Museum
- Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
- Berlin Story – The Making of Berlin
- Berlinische Galerie
- Brücke-Museum Berlin
- DDR Museum
- Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
- Domäne Dahlem
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin
- Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum
- Liebermann-Villa am Wannsee
- Neue Synagoge – Centrum Judaicum
- Puppentheatermuseum
- Schwules Museum
- Stasimuseum / Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße
- The Story of Berlin
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
The museums belonging to the National Museums of the Prussian Cultural Property are identified by the abbreviation SMB. Most of these museums are at one of the four major locations: Museum Island, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Charlottenburg and Dahlem.
Admission prices vary depending on the location, but the tickets are valid for all national museums at that location: Museum Island € 12 red. € 6; Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz € 8 red. € 4; Dahlem and Charlottenburg each € 6 red. €3. Special exhibitions have varying admission prices.
Most national museums are open Tuesday-Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
www.smb.spk-berlin.de
The Story of Berlin
The capital’s exhibition with an original radiation-proof bunker. You experience Berlin’s history from the time of its foundation until today. People, stories, 20 theme spaces on four floors with multimedia high-tech presentations that bring the history to life and make you feel part of it. The nuclear shelter that’s still completely functional is a big attraction. A guided tour is included in the admission price.
TIP: Tickets are available at the reception desk of your A&O at a preferential price.
Berliner Gruselkabinett ( Chamber of Horrors)
Today this former air-raid shelter houses other kinds of nightmares: weird horror scenes on the first floor, medieval medicine on the ground floor and a historical air-raid shelter in the basement. All copies, but genuinely horrific. Admission € 7, kids €5.
DDR Museum Berlin GmbH (Museum on Communist )
The DDR Museum Berlin is situated in the centre of the former East Berlin.
Here history becomes hands-on; a unique experience that is interactive, lively and exciting – a claim not every museum can make! What’s (was?) it like to sit behind the wheel of a Trabi and how comfortable was a GDR living room? The museum shows life in the former GDR, from dictatorship and nudism to state security surveillance and the Trabant car.
Directly on the river Spree, opposite the Berlin cathedral. Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 1 10178 Berlin, Monday - Sunday 10am to 8pm / Saturday - 10am to 10pm
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (German Museum of Technology Berlin)
Really worth a visit are the collections on the history of air travel, railways, cars and printing. At the science centre SPECTRUM you can learn about optics, thermodynamics and optical perception with the help of around 250 physical experiments. The museum’s new extension shows the history of shipping and aviation.
Filmmuseum im Filmhaus
Since it started in 1962 the Deutsche Kinemathek has collected everything to do with the history of film, cinema and, to some extent, TV. Film copies, equipment, objects, photos and documents - not to mention Marlene Dietrich’s legacy.
Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie
The history of the Berlin Wall is documented at the most famous border crossing point. Films, original recordings, photos and texts are on display, along with objects that tell the story of sometimes spectacular escapes. Talks with contemporary witnesses give you a vivid feeling of the past in communist East Germany.