Things to do in Potsdam

Ascend Berlin's skyline for unmatched city views from the iconic tower

The Neues Museum reopened in 2009, after extensive renovations. Since then, it has attracted more than a million visitors per year. It houses two major collections.

The Alte Nationalgalerie is an art gallery located in Berlin, Germany. It can be found in the UNESCO recognized Museum Island complex, and showcases a beautiful collection of Neoclassical, Romantic, and Impressionist artwork.

This highly interactive museum lets visitors feel what it was like to live behind the wall - in the DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik). It chronicles, via video and film, daily life as it was under Communism. The museum also includes hundreds of ways to help you experience life behind the iron curtain, including watching East German TV shows, being 'bugged', voting in a (rigged) election and taking a (simulated) car ride in an iconic Trabi.

The Reichstag is one of Germany's most important historical monuments: a symbol of democracy, and reminder of the country's turbulent past. Show your Reichstag tickets and explore this internationally recognized building, where Germany's politicians debate decisions that have an effect at home and around the world.

Cruise through Berlin and see a new side of the German capital

Be immersed in several ancient civilizations, including Greece and Babylon

Illuseum Berlin is a family-friendly museum of beguiling optical illusions, sense-defying physics exhibits, and interactive trickery all rooted in science. It is located in the center of Berlin – or is it?

The Berlin chapter of the international science exhibition sensation BODY WORLDS takes you on a voyage of discovery beneath the surface of the skin. The aim of the exhibition is to give visitors an understanding of what the human body's inner workings can tell us about ourselves and our lives, and how under the skin, people of all cultures and ethnicities are fundamentally the same.

The Bode Museum is a majestic building located on the northern tip of Museum Island, the cultural complex on the River Spree in central Berlin. The Baroque design of the Bode Museum may be the most remarkable one on the island and serves as a popular photo backdrop.

The Wall Museum recounts the history of the Berlin Wall using various forms of media across 13 rooms. It can be found at the East Side Gallery, Berlin, on the riverside of the Spree. The nearest station is Berlin Warschauer Straße.

Designed by the multitalented Karl Friedrich Schinkel - a Prussian painter, urban planner and architect - the Altes Museum (Old Museum) on Berlin's Museum Island is a neoclassical beauty.

The popular Pergamon Museum in Berlin is a great solution to a first world problem; it was built because there wasn't enough room in the nearby Bode Museum for all its artistic and archaeological relics. Construction carried on even through WWI and the great inflation of the 1920s. The then completed Pergamon was also badly damaged at the end of WWII (though fortunately its contents escaped damage). NOTE: The Pergamon Museum will be closed until 2027.

Panorama The View brings you back to the late Cold War era of 1980s Berlin, and presents you with a life-size photographic recreation of the Berlin Wall featuring 270° views. You’ll find yourself peering over the Wall and into East Berlin, and you’ll begin to understand the reality that ordinary Berliners experienced in that era.

Berlin Icebar is a bar and visitor attraction offering beverages in sub-zero temperatures. Everything in the bar is crafted from ice, including the furniture, walls, and glasses.

Panoramapunkt, on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, allows visitors to get up to the 24th and 25th floors for amazing views of the city. There's also an exhibition on the history of the square.

See the best of Berlin on a bus tour of the city

Blur the boundaries between real and virtual