Berlin
Germany · 15 collections · 148 locations
Berlin is a city of corners: lakes at the end of the S-Bahn, courtyards behind courtyards, a Späti that is the best spot on the street. Nobody knows all of it, so these maps come from the people who know their piece of it.
Places in Berlin
- Humboldt Forum — in The houses of Berlin's Staatliche Museen
- Museum Europäischer Kulturen — in The houses of Berlin's Staatliche Museen
- The Playce — in Berlin's Festival of Lights sites
- Siegessäule — in Berlin's Festival of Lights sites
- Spacehall — in Berlin's independent record shops
- Sound Metaphors — in Berlin's independent record shops
Collections in Berlin
- The houses of Berlin's Staatliche Museen — Fifteen collections and four research institutes are spread across five Berlin locations under the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, which…
- Berlin's Festival of Lights sites — Ten nights in October, lights on from 19:00 to 23:00, around forty buildings borrowed as projection surfaces and then handed back to ordina…
- Berlin's independent record shops — Berlin's vinyl trade has spent the last decade losing leases: Hard Wax left the Kreuzberg building it shared with Dubplates & Mastering whe…
- Berlin's jazz clubs — Berlin's jazz is played mostly below street level and mostly in rooms built for something else: a cinema basement, a corner grocery, the ce…
- Berlin's indoor swimming pools — Berlin swims indoors for most of the year, and the halls that make that possible range from 1898 brick gothic with a glass roof to a 50-met…
- Berlin's bathing lakes — Berlin swims in very different kinds of water: Havel bays on the west edge, widenings of the Dahme in the southeast, small ice-age lakes in…
- Berlin's Kinderbauernhöfe and Jugendfarmen — Berlin's children's farms are mostly staffed by educators rather than zookeepers, and most of them cost nothing to enter. What varies is wh…
- The Berlin Wall's designated border crossings — From 1961 to 1989, anyone crossing between the two halves of Berlin, or between West Berlin and the rest of West Germany, had to use one of…
- Berlin's Modernism housing estates on the World Heritage list — Six Berlin estates went onto the World Heritage list in 2008 as "Siedlungen der Berliner Moderne", and a seventh, the Waldsiedlung Zehlendo…
- Berlin's long-distance railway stations — Six Berlin stations take ICE and IC trains as a matter of course, and a handful more take them when something goes wrong. Right now somethi…
- The cinemas of the Berlinale — The Berlinale has never had a single building. Its 2026 screening list runs from a 1957 heritage-listed premiere house in Charlottenburg to…
- Berlin's open-air cinemas that run every summer — Berlin's summer screens are not pop-ups: most are fixed installations in parks, courtyards and a lido, several of them built into stages th…
- Berlin's rubble mountains, the Truemmerberge — Berlin was flat until the bombing stopped. Between 1946 and the early 1980s the city moved something like 55 million cubic metres of broken…
- Berlin's public ping-pong tables — Cast concrete tables with steel mesh nets sit in Berlin parks and squares by the hundred, some installed by district parks departments afte…
- Staff canteens that let the public in — Newspapers, opera houses, theatres and architecture offices in Berlin all feed their employees at subsidised prices, and a number of those…
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