Berlin - Berlin, a city full of culture, is home to around 190 museums and non-commercial galleries. The city's cultural richness is reflected in its diverse range of museums, making it a paradise for art and history enthusiasts.
From iconic snacks like Currywurst and Döner to the city's three UNESCO World Heritage Sites, there's so much to discover in this amazing city.
The Brandanburg station was beautifully designed with murals depicting the Brandanburg gate.
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| Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 |
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| Visit of JF Kennedy to Berlin |
Originally, built from 1830 to 1930, by order of the Prussian Kings, according to plans by five architects, the Museum Island was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 because of its testimony to the architectural and cultural development of museums in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Berlin Cathedral
During the Second World War, the Berlin Cathedral was severely damaged. A liquid fire bomb turned the main nave and the Hohenzollern crypt into ruins. The reconstruction of the church first 30 years later, during GDR times. The exterior work was completed in 1983, the interior work was finished in 2002 with the ceremonial unveiling of the eighth and last dome mosaic.
Alte Nationalgalerie - Old National Gallery
In 1876, the museum opens its doors. However, it does not stay open. In World War II, bombs hit the building. The gallery is renovated, but does not immediately return to its former glory. Germany is now divided, and the exhibits are spread over several locations in the GDR and West Berlin. Only after the reunification of Germany in 1990 do they return to their original location.
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| Old National Gallery |
The Alte Nationalgalerie houses impressive collections of Romantic, Impressionist & early Modernist art. The building itself was designed to look like a temple.
Pergamon Museum
This exhibition was closed.
Bode Museum
Restoration of the Bode Museum at the tip of Museum Island was completed back in 2005. In its magnificent halls it houses a unique collection of sculptures, showcasing exhibits from the Middle Ages to the 19th century
Altes Museum
Completed in 1830, the monumental pillars, expansive atrium and rotunda lined with antique sculptures resemble the Pantheon in Rome.
Humboldt University of Berlin
The Humboldt University of Berlin is a public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany.
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| Humboldt University of Berlin |
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| Frederick William II of Prussia |
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| Wilhelm von Humboldt |
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| Inside the Humbolt University |
Neue Wache
After German reunification, the Neue Wache was again rededicated in 1993 as the Central Memorial of the Federal Republic of Germany for the Victims of War and Tyranny.
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| Mother with her Dead Son. |
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| Neue Wache |
Bebelplatz
The Bebelplatz is a public square in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Following World War II, the square was renamed after August Bebel, a founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in the 19th century.
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| Free Open air concert tonight @ Bebelplatz |
The Bebelplatz is known as the site of one of the infamous Nazi book burning ceremonies held in the evening of 10 May 1933 in many German university cities.
Deutscher Dom - Exhibition on German Parliament
The Bundestag is the highest organ of the legislative in Germany. Alongside it stand the Federal Government, representing the executive, and the federal and Land courts, representing the judiciary. This exhibition is free to view and showcase the German parliament, but all of their exhibits are in the German language.
When it was first built at the beginning of the 18th century it actually was a church. Later, under Friedrich II, Carl von Gontard embellished the two churches with magnificent Baroque domes, purely for bombastic decoration.
The German Bundestag's exhibition on parliamentary history in the Deutscher Dom traces the historical development of the liberal parliamentary system of government in Germany over five floors. Two floors were closed today - 4th and 5th.
After the March Revolution of 1848, the revolutionaries laid out their fallen comrades on the steps of the Deutscher Dom and many Berliners attended a church service to take their leave of them at Gendarmenmarkt. The scene was depicted by the Berlin artist Adolph Menzel in his painting The Laying-Out of the Fallen March Revolutionaries.
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| Attending a mock German parliament |
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| Cross section of the Parliament building |
Lunch @ Frittenwerk
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| Frittenwerk fast food chain |
Frittenwerk brings Canadian snack classics and lots of different street food concepts to Berlin. The menu is inspired by the streets of Quebec and the traditional Canadian "poutine".
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| Frittenwerk ordering station |
"Poutine" means something like "mess".
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| Istanbul Street Fries |
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| BBQ Pulled Pork |
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| Avacado Chicken Bombs |
Quartier 205 mall
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| Art structure in the centre of the Mall |
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| Rewe city supermarket |
Galeries Lafayette Berlin - departmental store
This store is closing in 2024 and everything is on sale up to 70% discount.
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| Pax in the Canadian Goose jacket |
We were so tired with today's walking, we decided to head back to the hotel.
Dinner was take-away dined-in,
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| Chicken Fried rice |
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| Fried chicken noodle |
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| Fried chicken noodle with scarlots |
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