Things to do in Potsdam

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.

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

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

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.

Be immersed in several ancient civilizations, including Greece and Babylon

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.

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.

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.

Discover Berlin with an interesting walking tour

Delve into the past and appreciate the present with a city tour of Berlin

LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre Berlin has LEGO as far as the eye can see – the place contains over 5 million separate pieces of the colorful bricks! Made for those of us between the ages of 3 to 10 years old, everything is built on the small side, perfect for kids (but of course, this doesn't exclude taller and older LEGO fans from enjoying themselves, too, when accompanying their little humans). Berlin's LEGOLAND Discovery Centre is the ultimate playground, with more than 5 million bricks plus rides and attractions.

Interactive museum of optical illusion and modern art. The new DeJa Vu Museum offers a wide range of exhibits for all ages on approximately 1000m² on two levels. As one of the largest museums in Europe, it includes diverse exhibits that can be divided into different categories: Digital exhibits Physical exhibits Optical exhibits Interactive exhibits Permanent exhibits

The Museum of Photography / Helmut Newton Foundation is located in Berlin's Charlottenburg district, quite close to the zoo. It's easy to reach. Take the U-Bahn U1 (Kurfürstendamm); U2, U9 (Zoologischer Garten), or the S-Bahn S5, S7, S75 (Zoologischer Garten).

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.

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?

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