The city of Berlin is home to no fewer than 170 museums catering for any age and any interest, from art to technology, from old and historic to new and modern or the eccentric to the exotic.

With a 3 day Berlin Museumpass you can discover and enjoy up to 50 museums for only 12 € . You will have free and unlimited access to some of the most famous exhibitions and museums in Berlin, like the Pergamon on Berlin's Museum Island, the Jewish Museum, Tenchnology and the Dahlem Museums all of which are detailed below.

The Museumpass is available online at: www.btm.de , through the Berlin Tourist Office (Tel: 0049 30 250 025) or with most participating museums.

Location: Berlin

The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island houses a vast collection of artefacts from the ancient world including the crowning glory being the altar from the Zeus Tempel in Pergamon (180-160 BC), one of the world's most significant archaeological finds. The museum is also home to the East Asian Collection, the Near Eastern Museum and the Islamic Museum.

The Museum of East Asian Art is divided into three different sections, China, Japan and Korea. Each section displays a wide selection of arts, crafts and archaelogical discoveries dating back to the early Stone Age.

The Middle Eastern Museum is made up of items excavated by German archeaologists between 1888 and 1939.

The Museum of Islamic Art includes numerous works of art from the Islamic world dating back from the 8th-19th centuries, including ceramics, drawings, Persian and Indian miniatures, carpets and carvings.

Opening hours:
Tue – Sat: 10 am – 6 pm (Thur 10 am - 10 pm)

Admission:
Adults: 6,- €, reduced rate: 3,- € (gives access to all national museums for one day)
3-day-ticket valid

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 2090 5555

Address:
Bodestrasse 1-3
10178 Berlin

Location: Berlin

Founded in 1962 beside the legendary Checkpoint Charlie border crossing, the history of the Berlin Wall is displayed with original objects from successful escapes under, over and above the ground from the former GDR.

The exhibition also gives an impression of the last few days of when the GDR ceased to exist and when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

Opening hours:
Daily 9 am – 10 pm

Admission:
Adults: 9,50 €, reduced rate: 4,50 €
Groups: 4,50 € (no reservation required)

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 2537 2545

Address:
Friedrichstrasse 43-45
10969 Berlin - Kreuzberg

The GDR Museum gives an insight view into what life used to be like for East Germans before the wall, which separated the two Germany's for 40 years, came down in 1989.

The exhibition is designed to be fun, interactive and suitable for all ages. Visitors are encouraged to feel and touch the exhibits through a variety of different themes, like the "Trabi" on display which still smells like it used to in the GDR. The Trabi or Trabant is a car formerly produced in East Germany, its claim to fame is its poor performance and smoky two-stroke engine.

Be amazed by what people used to wear, how basic the accommodation was and how difficult it was to buy any kind of product which westerners would buy without a second thought.

Discover how impenetrable and well guarded the iron curtain used to be. Be surprised by the cunning methods of the secret police (Stasi) and what it was like to be separated by families in the west.

Opening hours:
Mon – Sun: 10 am – 8 pm (Sat 10 am - 10 pm)

Admission:
Adults: 5,- €, reduced rate: 3,- €

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 847 123 730

Address:
DDR Museum Berlin
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str. 9
D-10178 Berlin

Location: Berlin

The Hamburger Bahnhof ­ Museum was opened in 1996 as the new »museum for the present day«.

It houses art from the second half of the 20th century on an exhibition space of roughly 10,000 sq.m.including contemporary art in the form of paintings, sculptures, graphics, photography, video, multimedia and light displays.

Opening hours:
Tue –Sun: 10 am – 6 pm
closed Mon

Admission:
Adults: 6,- €, reduced rate: 3,- €

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 3978 3412

Address:
Invalidenstrasse 50-51
10557 Berlin

Location: Berlin

Fourteen departments currently exhibit just one quarter of their treasures on 20,000 sq. metres. Once the entire extension work is completed the house will be among the world's largest technology museums, accommodating more than 50,000 sq. m. of : old-timers, locomotives and planes, new nautical collections, household appliances and machine tools, computers, radios and cameras, diesel engines, steam engines, scientific instruments, printing presses and much more.

Almost every department offers demonstrations and activities. The workings of a vast number of historical machines and models are shown and explained.

A new aeronautic and space collection is due to open in spring 2005.

Opening hours:
Tue – Fri: 9 am – 5.30 pm
Sat, Sun and hol.: 10 am – 6 pm
closed 1/05

Admission:
Adults: 3,- €, reduced rate: 1,50 €

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 9025 4111 

Address:
Trebbiner Strasse 9
10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Location: Berlin

The Jewish Museum housed in the impressive new museum building designed by Daniel Libeskind, opened its first major exhibition on September 9th 2001.

This permanent exhibition traces the high and low points of German-Jewish history, offering a journey through history and culture, from its earliest testimonies, through the Middle Ages and up to the present day.

Opening hours:
Mon 10 am to 10 pm
Tue-Sun 10 am to 8 pm
closed on December 24th, Rosch ha-Schana

Admission:
Adults: 5,- €; reduced rate: 2,50 €
children under the age of six: free of charge
Family ticket 10 €

Contact:
tel.: 0049 30 2599 3300

Address:
Lindenstrasse 9-14
10969 Berlin

Location: Berlin

The museum complex at Dahlem with its rich collections are dedicated to "Art and the Cultures of the World".

The Museum for Indian Art and the Museum for East Asian Art have been revamped and this new appearance sits well with the ancient art treasures on display. The "Pacific" section with contemporary art from Oceania has also been recently updated and redesigned.

Opening hours:
Tue to Fri 10 am - 6 pm
Sat + Sun 11 am-6 pm

Admission:
Single ticket 4 €, reduced rate 2 €

Contact:
Tel: 0049 30 8301438

Address:
Lansstrasse 8
14195 Berlin