Pergamon museum in Berlin

No, Pergamon will be closed for years.

The Pergamon Panorama is open which might be more interesting for children.

Lines for the museums on Museumsinseln can be very long. Be sure you have tickets or passes that allow you to avoid those lines. I haven't been to Berlin since 2015, so I'm not up on line-avoidance strategies.

Thanks, is Jewish museum something kids would enjoy too?

I assume all those museums have audio guides but haven't verified that. You should be able to find that info on their websites. The webpage showing entry fees will probably either list a charge for the audio guide or specify that tickets include the audio guide.

What are the children's ages?

I don't have kids myself, so I'm pretty useless here. My memory of the Jewish Museum (from 2015) is that it is very good and very history-focused, going back centuries.

I wonder whether the DDR museum might be more accessible to kids. It's a casual sort of place, not government-run, that focuses on what life was like in the DDR--food, holidays, clothing. As of 2015 you could touch the clothing to feel the (poor) quality of the fabrics. This could be interesting to older kids curious about the period between WWII and 1990--which certainly wouldn't be all kids.

There are probably better possibilities in a city the size of Berlin. Let's see what the others say--but it would help to have ages for the kids.

thanks so much. The kids are age 8 and 11.

Visit Berlin has a bunch of kid-focused ideas https://www.visitberlin.de/en/berlin-children I believe most museums are free for kids under 18, except the DDR museum which is probably the only one I went to that kids might find fun. The Neues Museum on Museum Island has mummies and Egyptian stuff, but I don't know if they have audio tours that are kid friendly. I concur with the get there early as the lines do get incredibly long.

I should have mentioned in my earlier post that there were quite a lot of German families with children visiting the DDR Museum when I was there. (The exhibits are well described in English.) While those may have parents who dragged their kids to the museum to show them what they grew up with, I didn't notice unhappy kids.

I've now remembered the Wall Museum: House at Checkpoint Charlie. This is another privately operated museum. It focuses on the ways people tried to escape to the West.

I think the kids would find the Checkpoint Charlie Museum interesting. They probably can't imagine people wanting so badly to leave a place and it will give them a feel for how bad Communism is/was.

thanks, will definitely try to visit the Checkpoint Charlie museum.