Berlin is an edgy city, from its fashion to its architecture to its charged political history. The Berlin Wall is a sobering reminder of the hyper-charged postwar atmosphere, and yet the graffiti art that now covers its remnants has become symbolic of social progress. Check out the Weltzeituhr (world time) Clock, topped by a model of the solar system, then turn back time by dining at the historic Zur Letzten Instanz, a 16th century restaurant that was frequented by Napoleon and Beethoven.
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Our/Vodka is a micro-distilled vodka made by local entrepreneurs in cities throughout the world. One part global and one part local. It is with this recipe that Our/Vodka will give selected cities around the world their very own vodka. Berliners are the first ones out and Our/Berlin is produced in the heart of the city, right in the Kreuzberg. It is smooth and fresh with a fruity note.
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The Alice Museum team has been setting up interactive exhibitions for children and families for over ten years. In these exhibitions, complex topics encompassing culture, history, politics, science and the arts have been made accessible to all in exciting, three-dimensional rooms and spaces.
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This was my third time in Berlin, but the first time I've visited this great park and a really beautiful memorial. Being a history buff it was on my list during my previous visits, but always something else attracted me more, so I didn't have time. Speaking of time, let me assure you that you need only half an hour to reach it - 15 min S Bahn ride to Treptower station and around the same for walking from the station to the memorial. That walk is really relaxing in this huge greenery with many paths. The Soviet memorial is a highlight of this visit. Likewise the park it's also huge. You enter through two massive granite slabs depicting a battle, after which a huge lawn leads you to the larger than life Soviet soldier holding a child and crushing the swastika with his sword and boots. Be sure to climb the stairs to the soldier, beneath whom is a small chapel. On lawn's edges are several big white granit slabs with relief illustrations and Stallin's quotes inscribed. The memorial is dedicated to over 80.000 Soviet losses in the battle for Berlin, while around 7.000 are burried there. TIP: this is a pretty off the beaten track area of Berlin, so in order not to come just for this, you can combine your Treptower visit with: - Molecul Man water installation on Spree river (10 min walk in opposite direction from the S Bahn station) - very interesting and unusual, - Oberbaum bridge, Berlin's most beautiful bridge (further 15 min walk from the Molecul Man, - East side gallery (terrific, must see) starting on your left just after you cross the bridge. For more on these attractions, please read those reviews.
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Staatliche Museen zu Berlin closed from Saturday onwards From Saturday, 14.03.2020, onwards all buildings of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be closed until further notice. This measure is intended to minimise the spread of the coronavirus. We ask our visitors for their understanding. Schloss Kopenick (Kopenick Palace) has been used as an exhibition space by the Kunstgewerbemuseum since 1963. Before the reunification of Germany, artworks located in the east of Berlin were put on display here. The buildings on the island were later fully renovated and since 2004 have housed the permanent exhibition "RoomArt", focussing on the decorative arts of the Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. Spread across three floors, the museum presents outstanding masterworks in interior design from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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The last well-preserved former Nazi forced labor camp is located in Schöneweide. In the Second World War it served as one of the more than 3000 collective accommodations dispersed throughout the city for forced labourers. The museum offers two permanent exhibitions: "Forced Labour in the Daily Round 1939-1945" which gives an introduction into the complex topic of civil forced labour and "Between two Stools. Die History of the Italian Military Internees 1943-1945". Special exhibitions are offered as well. A MultiMedia Guide is guiding you through the Permanent exhibitions, the grounds of the former camp as well as around the neighborhood. It's available in German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish and Russian.
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Free Visit Duration: 45 minutes Location: Treptower park This memorial is divided by 4 parts: 1-At the entrance a three-metre-high sculpture stands representing Mother Russia: a woman grieving for her fallen sons. 2- Mother Russia statue is followed by Two Soviet flags carved from red granite below which two kneeling soldiers. 3- 8 stone sacrophagi lined from each of the two sides, each sacrophagi represents one of the 16 Soviet Republics with relief carvings of military scenes and quotations from Joseph Stalin. Each sacrophagi reliefs illustrate scenes from the "Great Patriotic War". 4- The masterwork of the monument is a conical hill bearing a tomb and providing the pedestal for the Red Army soldier monument. The interior of the crypt is decorated with beautiful mosaic frieze. At the top of the hill stands the 12m bronze sculpture of the Soviet soldier, holding a rescued child in his arm and a lowered sword over a shattered swastika.
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