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Pergamon-Museum Am Kupfergraben, Berlin, 10178 |
Musee Insel, Berlin, is home to several leading German Museums. The Pergamon Museum is perhaps the most striking. Really a German version of the British Museum, it houses several key exhibits, the Ishtar Gate from Babylo... more
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Altes Museum Am Lustgarten, Berlin, 10178 |
Out front of the Altes Museum stands the Rose Bowl a giant bowl carved out of a single piece of stone by Berlin artisans to act as a centerpiece for the giant atrium Schinkel had designed for the heart of the building. U... more
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Schloss Charlottenburg Spandauer Damm 20, Luisenplatz, Berlin, 14059 |
The Charlottenburg palace is the largest palace in Berlin. It was built in several stages. The original, central part was constructed between 1695 and 1699. It was intended as the summer home for Sophie Charlotte, Electo... more
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Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Strasze 50, Berlin, 10785 |
David Spaeth. Mies van der Rohe. p176 Above all Mies wanted to carry out on a more monumental scale the unitary space and surrounding structure that he had conceived for Bacardi. The great room would house tempora... more
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Topographie des Terrors Niederkirchnerstrasse 8, Berlin, 10963 |
Other Nazi sites to look out for are the site of Albert Speer's austentatious New Reich’s Chancellery on Wilhelmstrasse, and, behind it, the site of Hitler’s bunker where three trees surreptitiously mark where the So... more
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Judisches Museum Lindenstrasze 9-14, Berlin, 10969 |
Libeskind’s Jewish Museum has undoubtedly become an iconic museum building, being dubbed “one of the greatest architectural achievements of the past 100 years” (Hooper and Connolly 2001). Despite this, the fact that Libe... more
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Akademie der Kunste Hanseatenweg 10, Berlin, 10557 |
Treptowers An den Treptowers 3, Berlin, 12435 |
Three huge, human-like sculptures rise out of the water, and behind them loom four even huger buildings. Situated on the banks of the River Spree , these futurist...
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Museumsinsel Am Lustgarten 1, Berlin-Mitte, 10117 |
Museumsinsel is a small island in the Spree River. The 'island of museums' not surprisingly gets its name from all of the museums located on it. This UNESCO World Heritage Sight is one of the most important complexes of ... more
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Markisches Museum Am Kollnischen Park 5, Berlin, 10179 |
The building itself is worthy of being in a museum. Ludwig Hoffmann was the architect responsible for constructing the Markisches Museum in 1899-1908, and succeeded in creating an absolutely new kind of museum. This is n... more
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