Kreuzberg
Nicknamed Hungerharke (Hunger Rake), the Berlin Airlift Memorial right outside the former Tempelhof Airport honours those who participated in keeping the…
Must-see attractions in Berlin
Berlin
Don’t be scared off by the word ‘museum’ – this place inside an old factory is a fun and educational playground for the pre-teen set to subtly teach…
Kreuzberg
Created in the 1880s, this charismatic square with its cobbled streets, old-time lanterns and octagonal public latrine looks virtually unchanged 140 years…
Abguss-Sammlung Antiker Plastik Berlin
City West & Charlottenburg
If you are a fan of antique sculpture or simply enjoy looking at naked guys with missing noses or other body protrusions, make this small collection a…
Friedhof Grosse Hamburger Strasse
Berlin
What looks like a small park was in fact Berlin’s first Jewish cemetery, destroyed by the Nazis in 1943. Some 2700 people were buried here between 1672…
Kreuzberg
Founded in 1975, the Künstlerhaus is an artistic sanctuary and creative cauldron for emerging artists from around the globe. In 2010 it moved into this…
Watchtower Erna-Berger-Strasse
Berlin
Imagine what it was like to be a Berlin Wall border guard when climbing up the iron ladder of one of the few remaining watchtowers. The octagonal…
Kreuzberg
Right in the Spree River, near the Elsenbrücke bridge, this giant aluminium sculpture shows three bodies embracing and is meant to symbolise the joining…
Friedrichshain
This enchanting 1913 neo-baroque fountain consists of an arcade and a lusty cascade flanked by sculptures of frolicking turtles, frogs and characters from…
Kreuzberg
A former factory has been reincarnated as a cross-cultural cauldron of creativity, led by the venerable namesake publishing house Aufbau Verlag. Other…
Kreuzberg
Rounded Heads is a house-sized mural by internationally renowned Berlin street artist Nomad that shows a faceless person embracing a hooded character.
Berlin
The Siedlung Schillerpark is the oldest of Berlin’s five sprawling, modernist, 1920s housing estates that were inscribed on Unesco’s list of World…
Kreuzberg
This five-storey-tall street mural by Belgian artist ROA depicts animal carcasses, including a sheep and a deer, in a distinctive monochrome spray-paint…
Kreuzberg
This wall-sized street mural showing a bizarrely dressed, seemingly genderless, yellow-skinned figure is a signature work by Os Gemeos, aka identical…
Kreuzberg
Italian artist Blu created this house-sized mural that depicts a creature composed of hundreds of writhing pink bodies. Note the lone white guy crouched…
Sad Girl with Rabbit Ears Mural
Friedrichshain
The British-born, Berlin-resident street artist Boxi created this classic hand-cut, black-and-white stencil.
Berlin
Berlin's own version of Hollywood's Walk of Fame features 101 (and counting) brass stars embedded in a red-asphalt 'carpet' along Potsdamer Strasse. They…
Berlin
The fabulous collection of early-20th-century art housed at the Neue Nationalgalerie is off view until renovations of the gallery, led by architect David…
Berlin
While in office, the German president makes his or her temporary home in this snowy white neoclassical palace on the edge of the Tiergarten. Built in 1785…
Berlin
Germany's first actress to hit the big time in Hollywood, Marlene Dietrich was born in Schöneberg in 1901. In 1992 the 'Blue Angel' moved into her final…
Prince Frederick Arthur of Homburg, General of Cavalry Sculpture
Berlin
Frank Stella's otherworldly Prince Frederick Arthur of Homburg, General of the Cavalry (1999) is made of white-silver aluminium, steel carbon and…
Berlin
Crane your neck to spot Auke de Vries's Gelandet (Landed, 2002), a dronelike iron sculpture teetering on the edge of the roof of the Daimler Services…
Berlin
This 1987 sculpture by the American artist Keith Haring shows two cut-steel stick figures – one blue, one red – seemingly punching each other out. Or are…
Berlin
In the middle of a pond is Mark Di Suvero's Galileo, an abstract jumble of rusted steel T-beams assembled into a gravity-defying sculpture.
Prenzlauer Berg
This rambling listed brewery compound has been adapted to house cultural venues, resto-bars, a hostel and offices. Beer production resumed in 2013 with…
Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark
Prenzlauer Berg
Behind a short segment of the Berlin Wall (now an officially sanctioned practice ground for graffiti artists) loom the floodlights of the Friedrich-Ludwig…
Denkmal des Polnischen Soldaten und des deutschen Antifaschisten
Friedrichshain
Created in 1972, this memorial on the northern edge of Volkspark Friedrichshain honours the joint fight against the Nazis of the Polish communist…
Friedrichshain
In a quiet corner of the Volkspark Friedrichshain, this cemetery is the final resting place of the victims of the revolutionary riots in March 1848, as…
Friedrichshain
Officially called Grosser Bunkerberg (Large Bunker Mountain), Mont Klamott is the taller of two 'mountains' created from piled-up wartime debris in…
Prenzlauer Berg
This educational farm playground for kids offers interaction with barnyard animals and courses in basket-weaving, forging, felting and other old-timey…
City West & Charlottenburg
Everyone from foot-sore tourists to buskers and skateboarding teens gathers around the quirky Weltbrunnen, a 1983 creation of local artist Joachim…
Friedrichshain
Created by Fritz Cremer between 1966 and 1968, this monumental sculpture pays respect to the 2000 to 3000 Germans who died fighting fascism in the Spanish…
Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch
Kreuzberg
East German border guards, machine guns at the ready, used to keep an eye on the Berlin Wall and the infamous ‘death strip’ from this square concrete…
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