Berlin Museum Objects

Just a few objects that stood out.

Things to do in Berlin: museums

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

Some of the museums we've visited this time:

Museum für Naturkunde
One of the oldest natural history collections in the world. The building itself is not as impressive as the Natural history in London but it's still quite nice.
Don't miss the famous Archeopteryx and the impressive climate-controlled storage room for their collection of prepared animals.
Btw: you are allowed to take pictures but you cannot publish them, even on-line, without their permission!

Neue Nationalgalerie
Always a good place to see some modern art and interesting exhibitions.
The building by Mies van der Rohe is itself a must see if you are interested in modernism and/or architecture.

DDR Museum
A small museum but very interesting for those who want to see what life was like in the DDR. You can see and touch loads of products, sit in a real trabant, watch tv-series and hear the hit-music.

Neues Museum
Recently renovated museum with Egyptian, Prehistory, Early History and Classical objects. This is where you can see the famous Nefertete bust and a lot of other beautiful old stuff ;-)

Alte Nationalgalerie
A temple for 19th century German painting. If this is your era this is a must-see museum. Impressive paintings!

Altes Museum
It looks gigantic but actually the museum itself isn't that big. At the moment it houses a collection of classical objects (mostly Greek and Roman).

Pergamonmuseum
If you want to see something gigantic this is the museum to be. Inside are life-size parts of temples, gates and palaces. Most famous and beautiful is the Ishtar Gate from Babylon (6th century BC).

Museen Dahlem
One of my favourite Ethnological museum-complexes. Many, many objects and interesting exhibits

Berlin: Botanic Garden

A great place for a nice walk!

From the Brandenburger Tor to the Berliner Dom

A place of great buildings and museums (Museuminsel)

Berlin: Some Buildings

Some interesting landmarks in Berlin

Things to do in Berlin: food

Rating:	★★★★
Category:	Other

There are many many good restaurants in Berlin (it's a big city!) but it's always nice to find some close to your hotel or a place you've visited.
This particular time we had some great food in the following:

Asia Imbiss (Konstanzer Strasse 15, near the U-bahnhoff)
A great place for takeout (not many seats but you can sit outside in the summer). They have many kinds of Asian dishes to choose from and they are all pretty cheap and very tasty. And you can take some plastic knives and forks and eat it in your hotel-room ;-)

Le Buffet in the "Kaufhaus des Westens" (Tauentzienstrasse21-24)
The KaDeWe is the biggest department store in Berlin and a must visit. There is a lot of food on the top-floor and also a restaurant where you can eat lovely cakes. Don't be fooled by the word 'mini' in front of the cakes because they are pretty big!

Beth Cafe (Tucholskystrasse 40)
For some mouth-watering kosher food this is the place to be! Very cosy place and not too expensive.

China Restaurant Shanghai (Kantstrasse 22)
For some nice Chinese food. They make a great sweet-sour fish and they have tasty dishes with duck-meat too.

Café im Neuen Museum
A nice museum and a nice place to eat some lunch. Great sandwiches and many other tasty choices!

Shi-Mai (Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 5)
Very tasty Vietnamese food! A nice place to sit and eat and the food was really yummy!

Cayenne (Kurfürstendamm 175)
A nice place to eat some more traditional meat dishes. Very cozy and not even that expensive even-though it's on the Ku'damm ;-)

Berlin 2010: Zoo

Terrific Zoo and Aquarium: http://www.zoo-berlin.de/