This comprehensive guide to Berlin's art and architecture covers all major places of interest, featuring numerous essays on history and culture, detailed town plans and many full-colour illustrations.

Berlin - as Prussian royal residence city once called "Spree-Athens," later deemed the most "American" metropolis on the continent, finally divided by the Wall into two world No other city has seen so much change. The new Berlin is young, fast-paced and full of contrasts, a unique treasury of culture and a laboratory for the 21st century.

A Brief Biography of the City of the House of Hohenzollern

Genealogy ofthe House of Hohenzol ern

Berlin in Numbers

Chronological Table

Important Berlin Museums

Plazas in Berlin

Pariser Platz

 Brandenburg Gate

Potsdamer Platz

Gendarmenmarkt

Bebelplatz

 Architectural Visions for the New Berlin

Alexanderplatz

Ernst-Reuter-Platz

Spittelmarkt

 From Fontane to Doblin - Berlin and its Writers

Breitscheidplatz

Walkabout in West Berlin

Boulevards

Unter den Linden

Friedrichstra6e and Leipziger StraBe

 Berlin Department Store Tradition - KaDeWe as Beacon of Capitalism

Kurfurstendamm and Tauentzien

 Germania - on the Megapolis Program of National Socialist Senior Master Builder Albert Speer

StraBe des 17. Juni to HeerstraBe

Walking Tour: Neoclassical

Bridges

SchlossbrLicke (Palace Bridge)

 Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Neo-Classicism in Prussia

Oberbaumbrucke

Weidendamm Bridge

Glienicke Bridge

Walking Tour: Old-Berlin style

Government Quarter

Reichstag (Parliament)

Band des Bundes

Rotes Rathaus and Rathaus Schoneberg

National Socialist Architecture

Walking Tour: Capital Style

Museums and Culture Forums

Museumsinsel/Museurn Island

 Bode Museum

Wilhelm yon Bode as Founding Director of the Berlin Collections

 Pergamon Museum

Highlights of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities - Archaeological Excavations in the 19th century

 Neues Museum

 Alte Nationalgalerie

Adolph yon Menzel - Chronicler of the 19th century

 Altes Museum

 German Historical Museum

 Humboldt University

Brothers Wilhelm and Alexander yon Humboldt

 Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden

Kulturforum Potsdamer Strafe

 Gemaldegalerie

 Kupferstichkabinett

 Musical Instruments Museum

 Philharmonie

 Staatsbibliothek at Potsdamer StraiBe

 Neue Nationalgalerie

Museum Center Dahlem

The "Old" West

 Brucke Museum

 Bauhaus Archive

 Brohan Museum

 Collection of Photography

 and Helmut Newton Foundation

 Museum Berggruen

 Kathe Kollwitz Museum

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 Hamburger Bahnhof

 Natural History Museum

Other "Capital" Museums

 Jewish Museum

 Markisches Museum- Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin

 Berlinische Galerie

 Museum of Communication

 German Museum of Technology

 Martin Gropius Building

Theaters, Opera Houses, Movie Theaters

Schauspielhaus (Concert Hall) at Gendarmenmarkt

Staatsoper Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper

Deutsches Theater

Komische Oper

Maxim Gorki Theater

Berliner Ensemble

 The Golden Twenties, Its Theaters and the Revue

Film and Movie Theaters, Babylon and International

 Marlene Dietrich - a "Prussian Princess" in Hollywood