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Museum fùr Kommunikation Berlin (Museum for Communication)

This magnificent building in Leipziger Straße has been extensively renovated and has re-opened in 2000. It contains the united collections from east and west. In the basement you can admire the Blue Mauritius and Bell’s first telephone. The architecture of this builing is worth a visit alone. Admission free

Museum für Naturkunde der Humbolt-Universitat (Humboldt University Natural History Museum)

The building of the culture-historical museum accommodates also the museum for natural history, which could 1945 ago its own building at the cathedral place 5 use and to it to its final completion again return would like. The constant exhibitions of the natural history museum arrange knowledge of the animal world farm servant citizens of the area and minerals of the resin as well as of lives and variety of the insects. The exotic butterfly exhibition particularly meets with with pupils large approval. Beside the constant exhibitions mentioned there are interesting special exhibitions in the culture-historical museum stehts. In the historical building of the museum is a collection of, paläontologischen, mineralogical and geological objects zoo-logical over 25 million. On over 6000 square meter exhibition surface impressive, partially very rare and singular objects are arranged to a general impression the development of the life, that variety and aesthetics of nature.

Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art)

The museum for East Asian art owes its emergence to the collecting tank married couple Adolf (1856-1914) and Frieda Fischer (1874 - 1945). 1901 donated professor Adolf Fischer its first collection, which he had gathered on a Japan journey, to the citizen of Berlin people customer museum. Art from China, Korea and Japan accommodates the museum for East Asian art Cologne. As the first special museum of its kind in Germany was opened to 1913. A further emphasis of the museum existence is with the Chinese Sakralbronzen as well as ceramic(s) from China, Korea and Japan, above all the Korean Seladone of the Koryô dynasty 10. ? 14. Century with their singular glaze. Also the lacquered works existing in the museum and the placing screen possession have world rank.

In addition, this is part of the exhibition, serves the demonstration of the Japanese dte ceremony. As well as beyond that the museum for East Asian art has over a medium area, in that small series of lectures to take place can a special exhibition area, which is suitable for standing receipts

Museum für Vor - und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) : Berlin

The museum possesses one of the largest supraregional collections for the pre and early history of the old persons world. In five exhibition halls certifications of the prähistorischen cultures of Europe are shown by their beginnings, the paleolithic age, in the Middle Ages. A special high point is finally the Schliemannn collection with the famous “Trojan Altertümern” from that more than 3000 years inhabited settlement hill Hissarlik in the western small Asia. Since 1960 the museum is accommodated in the building of long Hans of the lock Charlottenburg.
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The museum in the water company Friedrichshagen is because of the north bank of the Müggelsees between the local parts Friedrichshagen and Rahnsdorf. It shows the history of the water supply and waste water disposal of Berlin. A group piston steam engine from the year 1893 can be demonstrated the visitors. The entire plant stands under monument protection. The museum is in the former drawing turbine house B of the water company Müggelsee.
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Would you like to carry yourselves back once into the time of our ancestors? Then you visit the museum village chaff. They can enter many huts there and make themselves from their building with simplest tools a picture. It is a reconstructed village as an open-air museum and centre for archaeological experiments. Demonstrations of medieval craft techniques and events like market festivals and exhibitions. You can see revived species of domestic animals and long-forgotten useful plants. Special tours can be organised Mo-Fr and out of season.

Museum Island (or, in German, Museumsinsel) in Berlin, Germany, is the name of the northern half of an island in the Spree river, in the center of the city.

The island received its name for several internationally renowned museums that are now occupying all of the island’s northern half (originally a residential area dedicated to “art and science” by King Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1841). Constructed under several Prussian kings, their collections of art and archeology were turned into a public foundation after 1918, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, which maintains the collections and museums today.

The Prussian collections became separated during the Cold War with the entire city, but were finally reunited after German reunification.

Presently, the Museumsinsel and the collections are in the process of being reorganized. Since several buildings were destroyed in World War II and some of the exhibition space is in the process of being reconstructed, the information below is in a state of flux.

Museum of Musical Instruments

A museum of musical instruments is a museum in that music instruments to be issued. Here mostly distinctive between collections with non-European exhibits and such, which are concerned with the history of the classical-European instruments. In addition, many institutes accommodate exhibitions of both areas.

However sometimes many cities in Germany and Austria have own museums for music instruments, the collections also in technical museums are accommodated, like for example in the German museum in Munich. The museum of musical instruments in Leipzig is accommodated in the there university, in Vienna is the collection until today, begun by the having citizens, in the yard castle. Worth mentioning also the museum of musical instruments is Mark new churches, which contains one of the largest collections of pieces from the whole world.

Neue Nationalgalerie is a museum in for classical modern art in Berlin, with main focus on early the 20th century. The museum building was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The 8.50 metre high hall which was built below the

largest free-spanning steel panel in the world (with two installation shafts without load-bearing properties in the interior) is set on a stone terrace, and the actual museum storey is below the terrace. It opens up to the west with a large glass facade looking out onto an outdoor sculpture courtyard surrounded by walls.

The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Straße which houses the Centrum Judaicum, is one of the most important locations for Jewish life in Berlin. It functions as a synagogue with egalitarian worship.To the Jewish New Year celebration 1866 the new synagog was solemnly inaugurated in the Oranienburgerstrasse. In May 1859 the building began, and in July 1861 arranging celebration was already celebrated. But by the complex interior equipment and war-conditioned shortness of material it came to substantial delays. A large, golden dome, which could be seen from far and wide, crowned the building; the building’s façade, with its magnificent ornamented brickwork, is flanked by two towers which also boast golden domes. On the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1939, the spirited action of the chief of the local police precinct prevented the infliction of serious damage on the synagogue. In 1943, the building was severely damaged in air raids, and in 1958 the main chamber of the synagogue was demolished.