Berlin Attractions

Charting the Great Escape at the Mauermuseum

Advantages: Huge amount of material and some unusual exhibits
Disadvantages: Tatty old displays that need updating; not fully wheelchair accessible; over-priced; crowded

Also known as the ‘Mauermuseum’, the ‘Museum am Haus Checkpoint Charlie’ is one of Berlin’s most popular tourist attractions. It’s so popular, in fact, that there was a long queue stretching outside the doors and down the street when we visited on a freez ...

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Review of Museum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Checking Out Charlie

Advantages: Unique perspectives on the Berlin Wall; The stories and artefacts from escapees
Disadvantages: Disorganised presentation of information; Not good for young children

Dr Haim Ginott once said that “children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” If you think back to what events or experiences made the biggest impression on you, I bet most (if not all) of them happened when you were a child. O ...

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Review of Museum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Museum am Checkpoint Charlie

Advantages: Very informative
Disadvantages: A bit confusing and no air conditioning!

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum is one of Berlin's main tourist attractions. It commemorates the Cold War period in Germany when Berlin was divided in two by the Berlin Wall, with East Germany being controlled by the Communist Russian regime while West Ber ...

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Review of Museum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin

Checkpoint Charlie

Advantages: Interesting, famous
Disadvantages: Expensive, a bit claustrophobic, a lot to take in

...In a city that is rich with history, both good and bad, Checkpoint Charlie and the museum that sits next to it is possibly one of the most interesting and one of the most prominent reminders of Germany's chequered past. The Haus Am Checkpoint Charlie is l ...

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War & Peace

Advantages: Free; easy to get to; lots of history
Disadvantages: Very busy; lots of people trying to make you part with your money

Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate (‘Brandenburger Tor’ in German) is not only one of the best known landmarks in Germany, it is symbolic more generally of the fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and those old enough will surely recall the momentous scenes as the Berlin Wa ...

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