BERLIN - Guiomatic

Districts South · See
became renowned for the exchange of Western and Eastern
secret agents.
Schloss Grunewald— An impressive traditional country
estate with stately architecture, it is an enclave of untouched
regional cultural history and architectonic epochs. The 80hectare
mixed forest also provides a wide network of paths
for walking and rambling.
House of the Wannsee Conference: The home of the "Final Solution."
Museums
Brücke-Museum, Bussardsteig 9, tel 831 2029 . Works from
the Dresden art collaborative called "Die Brücke".
Museum of European Cultures. The biggest of its sort in
Europe. At the museum district of Dahlem.
Ethnological Museum. Again one of the world's most
comprehensive ones. At the museum district of Dahlem.
Museum of Asian Art Includes East Asian as well as Indian
sections.
Allied Museum. A museum showing the Western side of the
Cold War.
House of the Wannsee Conference. on Am Grossen
Wannsee on the shoreline. This museum explains how this
house was used for a meeting of senior Nazis to ensure that
they all knew that the SS would forthwith industrialize the
use of mass-murder in disposing of Jews and "undesirables"
and to debate a little the logistics of the Holocaust, for which
Hitler had already given the orders.
Tempelhof
Tempelhof Airport, the "mother of all airports", is a huge relic of
the pre-war era but closed as of October 30, 2008. The terminal
building is located immediately south of the city center and
was the hot spot of the Berlin airlift ("Berliner Luftbrücke"). Take
U6 to "Platz der Luftbrücke"
Neukölln
Neukölln has been known for its high immigrant population,
but is now considered to be a highly up-and-coming
neighbourhood of Berlin where more and more artists,
students, and new homeowners are moving to. Particularly
northern Neukölln – also known as Kreuzkölln – has seen a
huge influx of money and has become particularly trendy, and
this trend is moving steadily further south. Particular areas
of note is the part of Neukölln close to the Maybachufer
channel that also hosts the famous Türkish market (off
of U-Bahn Schönleinstrasse), the Schillerkiez (off of U-Bahn
Boddinstrasse), and the Richardplatz (off of U-Bahn Karl-Marx-
Strasse)
Treptow-Köpenick
Museum of Forbidden Art A special museum situated on
a guard tower on the historical Berlin Wall (closed now,
reopening questionable).
Müggelturm - an observation tower without an elevator in
Southeast Berlin, from which you can see that there is a great
deal of forest around Berlin.
Altstadt Koepenick - the old town of Koepenick surrounded
by water. Especially noteworthy is the Köpenick Palace
which houses a museum of applied art and the Neogothic
town hall.
(Museum of Decorative Arts, Schlossinsel Köpenick 1 (in
Köpenick Palace), ☎ +49 (0)30 6 55 73 61. Tu-Su, 10am-6pm.
€4.
Kopenick Castle
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