Museums and Art Galleries in Berlin

Berlin, with its diverse culture and a rich history, boasts of innumerable museums focusing on the past, present and future prospects of Germany. Berlin has around 153 museums, some of which are listed in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Given below is the list of some of the most important museums in Berlin:

- Alte Nationalgalerie is also called the Old National Gallery
- Altes Museum
- Stasi Museum- is situated in Lichtenberg. It was the office of the East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi).
- Altes Museum (Old Museum) - is situated in Lustgarten and showcases the bust of Queen Nefertiti
- Bode Museum
- Beate Uhse Erotic Museum - is said to be the world's largest erotic museum.
- Neues Museum (New Museum)
- Pergamon Museum
- Deutsches Historisches Museum - gives an overview of German history through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
- Deutscher Dom
- German Film Museum
- Hamburger Bahnhof: Museum of the Present, with exhibits of contemporary art
- Neue Nationalgalerie - also called the New National Gallery, lays emphasis on the 20th-century European painting.
- Checkpoint Charlie - is a museum along with being a crossing point in the Berlin Wall.
- Humboldt Museum of Natural History - it has the largest mounted dinosaur along with having the best preserved specimen of an archaeopteryx.
- Museum of Mail and Telecommunication
- Berggruen Collection (Picasso and his times)
- Egyptian Museum of Berlin - holds the most precious collection of Ancient Egyptian artifacts.
- Museum for Pre- and Early History
- Subway/Underground Museum
- Bauhaus Archiv - is an architecture museum.
- East Side Gallery
- Gay Museum (Schwules Museum)
- German Museum of Technology- is situated in Kreuzberg and displays a large collection of historical technical artifacts
- Jewish Museum Berlin - has an exhibition displaying the 2,000 years old German-Jewish history.
- Martin-Gropius-Bau
- James Simon Gallery
- Museum of Photography
- Topography of Terror
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
- There are various museums at Dahlem, which focus on the art and culture around the world - the Museum of East Asian Art, the Ethnological Museum, Museum of Indian Art etc