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Dong Xuan Center
Vietnamese shops and food businesses turn this Lichtenberg trading centre into a different kind of city discovery.
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The Berlin address book
Art institutions, a market hall, open runways and rooms with a different rhythm.
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Samurai Museum Berlin
Japanese armour and craftsmanship give an art walk around Auguststraße an unexpected historical turn.
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Schwules Museum
LGBTQ+ history and changing exhibitions invite a closer look at lives often left out of conventional museum narratives.
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Werkbundarchiv, Museum der Dinge
Everyday objects become the starting point for looking at design, consumption and the things that shape domestic life.
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Urban Nation Museum
Urban art moves from the street into a museum setting on Bülowstraße.
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Deutsches Historisches Museum
Historical exhibitions near Unter den Linden offer a focused way to explore how Germany's past is presented and debated.
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Museum Knoblauchhaus
A historic merchant's house gives the Nikolaiviertel a closer look at domestic life and the Biedermeier period.
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Kunsthaus Dahlem
Postwar modern art finds a distinctive setting in a former sculptor's studio in Dahlem.
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Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation
Photography and film give this smaller exhibition space a focused place in a Mitte gallery walk.
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Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum
An artist's work and a courtyard setting offer a more personal cultural stop in Kreuzberg.
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Mitte Museum
A local-history museum examines the different neighbourhoods that make up central Berlin.
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Museum Köpenick
Local collections make the historic streets of Köpenick a place to explore with more context.
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Anna Seghers Museum
A writer's former home offers a small, appointment-led literary visit in Adlershof.
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Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte
The preserved working and living rooms connect a Berlin literary walk with Brecht and Helene Weigel.
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Steglitz Museum
A district museum adds historical context to a day in the residential streets of southwest Berlin.
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Heimatmuseum Zehlendorf
Local history gives a stop in Zehlendorf an alternative to the better-known museums nearer the centre.
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Museum Reinickendorf
A district collection brings the villages and changing urban landscape of northern Berlin into view.
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Berliner Stadtbibliothek
A public library in the historic centre offers books, reading spaces and a cultural programme beyond the headline museums.
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Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv und Bibliothek
An archive and library preserve lesbian history through books, documents and public cultural work.
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Galerie Poll
A long-established gallery gives a Mitte art route a stop centred on its changing exhibitions.
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Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Modern and contemporary painting gives this gallery a focused place in a Berlin art afternoon.
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Bastian
A gallery in Dahlem pairs a changing exhibition programme with a quieter architectural setting.
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Galerie mutare
A smaller Charlottenburg gallery invites a slower look at the artists in its current exhibition.
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Galerie Horst Dietrich
A Charlottenburg gallery adds another independent stop to a route through the neighbourhood's art spaces.