Art Galleries

Berlin’s reputation as an avant-garde capital was born in the cabarets of the Weimar Republik and resurrected in abandoned cellars following the collapse of communism half a century later. When the Wall fell, migrant artists flocked to the city, claiming deserted eastern blocks as squats and opening vanguard galleries, a cultural trend that continues to…

Museums

Few things are as vulnerable to the ravages of modern warfare as the precious contents contained within museums, and having the city shunted to the cultural sidelines during the Cold War did little to facilitate the necessary and painstaking reconstructions. Happily, the bulk of the heavy-lifting has finally been completed, thanks in no small part,…

Zoos

For a landlocked northern European city without much natural biodiversity, Berlin has within its borders one of the most comprehensive collections of flora and fauna to be found anywhere. Thanks to a fetish for species collecting, particularly by the 19th century royal Hohenzollerns, Berlin boasts some of the world’s biggest zoos and botanical gardens, not…