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some important museums.
The State Museums of Berlin (SMB) offer a great bargain: a 3-day-ticket (named “Schaulust”, € 19) covers all their 60 (or so) museums. It can be purchased in any SMB museum. On Thu evening, from 4 hours before any SMB museum closes, admission is free for everybody. The ones marked with (SMB) below belong to the State Museums of Berlin.
Here a choice of places:
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Deutsches Historisches Museum
Also known as „Zeughaus“. Daily 10-18, € 5. A remarkable museum on German history. Has both a permanent and temporary exhibitions.
(Unter den Linden 2)
(Kopie 42)
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Deutsche Guggenheim (SMB)
Daily 11-20. Temporary exhibitions of big-fish contemporary artists.
(Unter den Linden 13-15)
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Museumsinsel (Museum Island)
Alte Nationalgalerie (SMB)
Mon closed, Thu 10-22, other days 10-18. Located on the island just east of the Zeughaus, 19th century European art.
Pergamon Museum (SMB)
Daily 10-18, Thu 10-22. Shows (among other things) a giant 120 meter altar frieze from Pergamon, the Gate of Miletus and the Ishtar Gate from Nebuchadnezzar´s Babylon – right, the entire thing.
Altes Museum (SMB)
Daily 10-18, Thu 10-22. shows ancient Roman and Greek art.
(Kopie 44)
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Neue Nationalgalerie (SMB)
Mon closed, Thu 10-22, other days 10-18. 20th-century European art (Picasso, Miró, Dix, Grosz etc). The building (a steel & glass cube) is designed by the famous Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe.
(Kopie 45)
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Nationalgalerie Im Hamburger Bahnhof / Museum für Gegenwart(SMB)
Temporary exhibitions of contemporary art. Admission € 8. Mon closed, Tue-Fri 10-18, Sat 11-20, Sun 11-18.
(Kopie 46)
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Deutsches Technikmuseum
Admission € 4.50. Mon closed, Tue-Fri 9-17:30, Sat/Sun 10-18.
If you can´t make it to Munich´s Deutsches Museum at least visit this one: what Germany is famous for, still good at and propels our economy is engineering. This museum boasts every bit of it from early industrialization to space age.
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Jüdisches Museum
Mon 10-22, Tue-Sun 10-20, € 5. The largest Jewish museum in Europe, a must-see. The building itself is a celebrated masterpiece of the architect Daniel Liebeskind.
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Haus am Checkpoint Charlie
Open daily 9-22, € 12.50 (students € 7.50). Documents the history of the wall and escapes from the GDR.
(Kopie 49)
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Topographie des Terrors
Daily 10-sunset. Free admission. Open-air exhibition on the former site of the SS & secret police headquarters.
(Kopie 50)
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DDR museum
Right on the river Spree, directly opposite the Berlin Cathedral. Open daily 10-20, admission € 5.50. This interactive exhibition gives you a hands-on experience of everyday life in the GDR. It has a shop with lovely folding models of concrete-slab GDR architecture – and of course original pieces of The Wall, certified authentic.