Has anyone visited this section of the Museum that remains open? I'm so disappointed that the museum is closed but this does sound interesting. Time is very limited in Berlin so was hoping that someone might have some insight.
Posted by
Schwerin
3991 posts
The museum website contains good description. Did you read this?
Maybe Deutschlandmuseum is interesting for you?
Berlin hosts also various other museums with history context:
https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/our-museums
In addition I like to mention:
- Berlin Wall Memorial
- GDR Museum
- Stasi Museum
- Stasi Prison Hohenschönhausen
- Typology of Terror (Nazi era and Holocaust)
- German Resistance Memorial Center (Nazi era)
- Holocaust Memorial / former Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen (Oranienburg)
- Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (dinosaur skeletons)
- Spandau Citadel (old fortress) with own exhibition
- Charlottenburg Palace (exhibition about Prussian / Hohenzollern dynasty)
- and many many more
Posted by
Alsenborn, Germany
2109 posts
I was in Berlin for a long weekend just last week. I did not go in the museum, although I walked past it early one morning. I found there was plenty to do just in and around Museum Insel. I visited the Altes Gallery and the Bodes. The Pergamon was also closed. But they had a really nice old book and flea market running alongside the museums, and I found a couple things there. If you want good pictures of the architecture go around 8am, the streets will be mostly empty. Tour groups start showing up around 930, and some of them have early entry. This holds true not only for the museums, but also for sites like the Brandenburg Tor or the Tiergarden.
Posted by
Portsmouth
5760 posts
I visited the exhibition in February and I found it very interesting. There's a lot of reading and I did notice some people just skipping past and thus were done and dusted in about ten minutes but if you do it properly you'll be there for around two hours.
Posted by
Washington, DC
163 posts
Yes, we visited that exhibit when we were in Berlin and my boyfriend and I both found it very interesting and insightful. I had been to the German History Museum before, so at first I was disappointed when I saw most of it was closed. But the "Roads Not Taken" exhibit was very well done - I am glad we did not skip it. We were probably there for two hours or a bit more as we pretty much read everything.