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Berlin, Germany

Things to do in Berlin

Everything in the Atlas for Berlin: places to see and things to do, in one list.

Museumsinsel

Five museums on one island in the Spree, holding the Pergamon altar, the bust of Nefertiti and enough classical sculpture to make a day feel short.

Museum · a full day

East Side Gallery

The longest surviving stretch of the Wall, 1.3 km of it, painted by artists from twenty-one countries in 1990 and repainted since as the originals weathered.

Monument · 1 hour

Brandenburg Gate

Prussian triumphal arch, then a gate nobody could pass through for twenty-eight years, and now the place every photograph of the city is taken from.

Monument · 30 minutes

Tempelhofer Feld

A closed airport turned into a park, and the runways were left. Berliners cycle, skate and barbecue on a 300-hectare field where planes landed until 2008.

Park · 2 hours

The Wall, where it stood

Bernauer Straße preserves the death strip, the tunnels and the names — an hour that does what no film manages.

Walk or hike · low

Cycle the runways at Tempelhof

Two 2,000-metre runways, open to anyone, kept deliberately empty by referendum.

Rail, road or ride · low

This page exists because Berlin has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Berlin.