The latter presents Berlin, the capital city of Germany with an intense historical background and an extraordinary approach to both arts and culture. People can always turn to museums to uncover Berlin’s cultural identity with several museums being influential across the global market. During the walking tour, there are several interesting museums you can choose to pay for their services by paying for the ticket, but there are also other interesting free museums you can visit. In this part of the blog post, we will take you through a list of museums you should visit if you are doing a free walking tour in Berlin.
Museum Island
Situated on the Northern part of the city House of Berlin, Museum Island is one of the most famend museums within the world, and a UNESCO world heritage site. Here are two of the must-visit museums:
1. Pergamon Museum
Pergamon Museum will display the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate of Babylon, and the Market Gate of Miletus. The guide will take you through a little trip back in time and explore the architectural master pieces of time passes architecture.
2. Neues Museum
Neues museum has probably one of the richest collections of the Egyptian cultured artifacts and artwork. It is also a site of Neuschwanstein castle, the bust of Nefertiti, Egyptian book of the dead, and many other interesting artifacts, and things that are in the display at Neuschwanstein Castle.
DDR Museum
If you want to know more about life in East Germany during the Cold War period, then DDR Museum is for you. This center allows you to get into a real Trabant car, watch a reconstructed East-German apartment, and even take a virtual tourist ride in an amusement park behind the old Iron Curtain.
Topography of Terror
To get some idea of how Berlin fared during the Nazi period, a stop at the Topography of Terror is certainly recommendable. This open and closed air museum is situated at the place where the Gestapo and the S.S headquarters existed. From the exhibits, photographs and documents displayed you will learn more about the horrible experiences that occurred during the dark period in history.
East Side Gallery
Currently the East Side Gallery is a collection of paintings on the remaining part of the Berlin Wall or more specifically – an outdoor museum. It showcases great and engaging spray paintings by artists from different parts of the globe. Every piece has a story and helps to recall the division and joining of the city as a unified entity.
Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin is the museum dedicated to Jewish life and history in Germany. That is why the number of exhibits here is accompagnied by an opportunity to get really close to the opportunity to get really close to the Jewish culture, traditions, and history of the holocaust. And do not be scared off by the disillusionment of walking out into the Garden of Exile – literally an open field which symbolically addressed the dispersion and bewildered state of Jews during Nazi regime.
Conclusion
In this free Berlin art & history walking tour, you will have an overview of the city’s museums. The city of Berlin is a treasure trove of history and again and again, remains a major magnet for tourists, from ancient civilizations to contemporary museum shows. It doesn’t matter if you like old history, history of cold war or history of modern pop art – there is something for everyone.
Just be sure to do some advance planning with the walking tour in mind because some museums may or may not open early or they may have a protocol when entering. Do not miss the opportunity to enrich your knowledge and to listen and feel a great number of stories that these museums opened in front of you, let Berlin’s miraculous cultural history blow your mind.
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